September 2009
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If You Could Give $25 to Wipe Away $42,526 in Student Loans, Would You?
I have spent the past week wrestling with how to tell this story – and whether or not I should tell this story. It’s certainly related to personal finance, especially my own personal finances. But if I tell it wrong, it comes across as overly political and a plea for money. Awesome! Two things that [...]
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Comments (17)Birthday and National Museum Day!
Two years ago, I askedyou to buy me a beer for my 21st birthday. Last year, I gave away an HP laptop. This year, we’re going to the museum! Today is serendipitously both my birthday and National Museum Day, which gets you free access to many museums throughout the country. So go ahead, find a [...]
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Why You Must Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be
This guest article was written by Adrienne Carlson, who regularly writes on the topic of accredited online universities. Adrienne welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: adrienne.carlson83@yahoo.com I’m sure it’s every college student’s dream to live life king-size, but when you’re hampered by the basic fact that you have no money, you only [...]
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Identity Verification Sucks! (Again!)
After my friend’s troubles with verifying his identity for ING Direct, and their subsequent explanation of the incident, I didn’t expect to be writing about identity verification for a while. Sure, there were lessons to be learned and research to be done, but we knew that research would take months and months to complete, due [...]
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$25,000 for College from Upromise
Upromise and Sallie Mae are giving away five $5,000 scholarships? Awesome! And this time around, it couldn’t be easier to enter. Just: Join Upromise, if you haven’t already – it’s free! Install the TurboSaver Toolbar Now, ordinarily, I am not a fan of browser toolbars. I don’t like a lot of third-party things crowding up [...]
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Review: The New Rules for Mortgages
The New Rules for Mortgages by Dale Robyn Siegel In the wake of the subprime mortgage meltdown and ensuing economic crisis, it’s no secret that the rules for buying a home and getting a mortgage have changed. But it might be hard to get a straight answer from someone on just how those rules have [...]
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How to Use Credit Cards Properly and Be a Deadbeat
This is a guest post from Mr Credit Card. He recently had me on his radio show. He is going to write about not to take advantage of credit cards and how not to get abused by them. You could apply for a credit card at this site. I just did a radio interview with [...]
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Moving: Titling, Registering, and Insuring Your Car
One of the fun things about moving from state to state in the US is that you now have a car with “out of state” plates! And by “fun” I mean “oh crap, this stinks.” Out-of-state plates can make you a target for cops, and some states even require that you title and register your [...]
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Review: Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel
Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel 100 Dirty Little Money-Grubbing Secrets By Phil Villarreal Because I write about personal finance on ye olde Internets, and I did that thing where I didn’t buy anything new for a year, I often find myself struggling to maintain the lifestyle that is “frugal” without crossing over and becoming simply [...]
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ING Responds to Electric Orange Security Issue
When we last left our friend Rick*, he’d been told that he could never open an ING Electric Orange account, and he was scrambling to figure out what company is giving out false information about his identity. Since then, ING Direct has responded to both Rick and myself. Here is a portion of the email [...]
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