Weekend Deals – Discounts & Cash Bonuses
November 14, 2009
Deals and promotions keep popping up lately, I’m guessing partly because it’s close to the end of the year and businesses are making a push to meet or exceed their goals for the year. I’m sure part of it has to do with Christmas deals for the upcoming shopping rush. Here are some of the promotions […]
Home Buyer Tax Credits Are Working??!!
November 12, 2009
The first time home buyer tax credits in 2009 didn’t really interest us that much since we’ve owned our home for just under ten years now. However, the latest version of the bill now includes a tax credit through 2010 for homeowners who have lived in the same place for five of the last eight years consecutively. This new […]
PTMoney – Personal Finance by Phil Taylor
November 8, 2009
This week I recommend you check out PT Money, written by Phil Taylor (PT). His blog focuses on his own experiences managing money and he has help from his super frugal wife, too! I first ran across Phil when he was part of the FNBO Direct Pay Yourself First money challenge, here’s his video entry […]
Open Enrollment Deadlines
November 6, 2009
Open enrollment deadlines are one date you don’t want to miss. Choosing the best insurance options and benefits at your job is an important part of your personal finances. Open Enrollment Window October and November are the time when many companies have open enrollment, a time period during which you can make changes to your […]
Investing and College Savings – October Review
November 3, 2009
Investing was the main topic covered here on Money Smart Life in October with an emphasis on bonds. We haven’t talked all that much about how bonds fit into an investment portfolio so I decided to take spend a few days covering bonds. Investing Topics Victor started out the the basics of investing in bonds and […]
TradeKing Promotion Extended
November 2, 2009
The TradeKing promotion has been extended through the end of this month. For some reason, TradeKing likes to run thier promotions in the fall of each year. Last October Tradeking ran a $50 bonus promotion and despite the turmoil of the stock market had a lot of people sign up to try out their online brokerage. This […]
Mobile Money Guide – Banking, Shopping, & Coupons
October 30, 2009
Mobile banking and shopping are becoming more and more popular thanks to smart phones like the iPhone and Palm Pre. A year ago we ran a series of articles on what the mobile web could do for your money. Today, I’m revisiting the mobile money guide because the options for banking, shopping, and managing your […]
Angies List Promotion
October 29, 2009
Angies List promo codes are good for saving money when you sign up for the service but now Angies List is running a promotion for existing customers. As I covered in my Angies List review earlier this year, I’ve used the service to find contractors for work on our house. Apparently now there are more than one million […]
Outsourcing Your Investing Decisions
October 24, 2009
Would you pay someone to make your investment decisions for you? Sure, most of us have some money invested for us by mutual fund managers but would you outsource your investing choices to someone that simply had a good track record of earning in the stock market? A company called kaChing that runs a virtual stock […]
Our Furnance Repair Bill
October 22, 2009
Heating & cooling your home isn’t cheap, especially when you add in furnance repair bills like the one we had last weekend. We came home last Sunday afternoon and found that although our thermostat was turned to 65 and we could hear the furnace blower kick on, there was no hot air coming out of […]
