Angies List Cities

After announcing the Angies List membership giveaway yesterday I had some questions over email about which locations the membership could be used in.  So I put together a list of Angies List cities where members submit their reviews of local contractors.  It’s a pretty big list so I’ll put it at the end of the post. […]

Angies List Free Membership Giveaway

Angies List is a service that we’ve used to find quality contractors to do work on our home; such as electricians, plumbers, exterminators, foundation work, etc.  I won’t go into all the reasons that we use the service, I wrote more about that in my Angies List review. We actually don’t use the service as much as […]

Why I Quit My Job

I just finished watching an episode of the TV show “The Office” and it started me thinking about how and why I quit my previous job.  I imagine my story isn’t all that different from yours if you’ve ever left a job you were unhappy with.  If I had to guess, there were probably some […]

Costco Discounts and the Worst Credit Cards

Costco memberships and fake credit cards have been the topics of choice for me in my latest articles over at Wisebread.  I thought you might find a few good tips in some of them so I wanted to share a little about them. Costco Discounts I’ve become a fan of the warehouse club ever since […]

Blue Cash $25 Promotion

Our Blue Cash card was the topic of a nice chat I had this week with Reuters journalist Linda Stern.  She was looking for examples of people who were using rewards credit cards and she ran aross my article on how we use our AmEx Blue Cash card. I wrote the article several years ago so her […]

Helping Those Without Insurance or Health Care

I’ve written a lot lately about health insurance and health savings accounts. Sometimes I get so caught up worrying about health care costs that I forget there are many people in the world that don’t have health care, let alone health insurance. Addressing this global health need seems like such an enormous task, it’s hard to know […]

Gettting from Prepaid to Postpaid

Today’s post is a guest post from Tim Chen, CEO of NerdWallet. Tim writes about credit cards for the Forbes Moneybuilder Blog, Huffington Post, and the Christian Science Monitor. For those with limited credit or bad credit, prepaying for services is a fact of life. This can include cell phone bills, debit cards, secured credit cards, […]

Federal Tax Cut Extensions

TurboTax VP of consumer advocacy, Bob Meighan, spoke with me not long ago about the tax cuts expiring this year.  About a year ago Bob and I talked about the TurboTax online edition and tax software vs manual tax returns but this time the main focus was on tax legislation. Since we talked there’s actually […]

Scottrade Review

A Scottrade review is something I’ve been meaning to do after seeing the online brokerage rank pretty high in the SmartMoney survey of discount brokers.  With their competitive fees, low minimum requirements, and wide range of investment options Scottrade is an attractive option for many investors who like to manage their own portfolios. Scottrade Fees I’ll […]

Choosing Health Insurance & Hospital Rip-Offs

Health insurance is a popular subject towards the end of the year as many people go through open enrollment to signup for the following year and try and spend their funds before the flexible spending account deadline. I’ve been thinking about it a lot this last month as we finally made the move to a […]

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