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How to Find Unclaimed Money (and Unclaimed Property)

Free money – sounds seductive doesn’t it? The idea that somewhere out there is unclaimed money with your name on it, sitting and waiting for you to come and claim it… sounds awesome. It is not really free money, it is rightfully yours, but that doesn’t reduce the enjoyment of found money a bit, whether it is [...]

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Are we saving too much for retirement?

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent. — Ben Franklin. There are plenty of us that have this view point about how much we need for something we have no clue about. We try to find a rule of thumb and follow that. Personal finance is replete with rules of [...]

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Where to get free stuff : Mega Guide to freebies

Who doesn’t like more stuff in life I have a semi-regular series on how to get free stuff either free bowling during summer, free movies, free credit scores… I will continue to write this series but I have a lot of short notes that wouldn’t fit in my series (I don’t write about “today only” [...]

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Oh…No… Not “that” topic again!

Frugality vs. Earning more… Do we really need another post on this? Hasn’t the personal finance blogosphere beaten this topic to death? Half the PF bloggers & main stream media says frugality is the way to go and the other half likes to make fun of the frugal people saying they are wasting their time [...]

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7 Links Project – A Blog Synopsis

This blog was nominated by Retire by 40 to participate in the “7 links project”.  The purpose of the project is for each blog writer to highlight 7 of their previous posts, based on 7 questions.  The following are my responses to the 7 questions.  I hope you take the time to maybe click on [...]

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Battling the Rebaterus…

Yesterday I was filling out a mail in rebate after a very long time. I used to do a lot of free after rebate stuff, but with lack luster success in getting the mail in rebates without any follow up I pretty much gave up. This time, I already decided to purchase a USB drive [...]

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Free legal advice for cancer patients

Cancer is something close to my heart. I lost 2 loved ones to cancer. For a lot of cancer patients dealing with their health might be easy compared to the other legal consequences they have to deal with – insurance coverage, government benefits, custody, employment discrimination… It is too much for anyone to deal with. [...]

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When barriers can be good…

How many people want to be responsible with money? How many people want to control impulse buying? Yet, how many people actually do it? When it comes to personal finance, the concept is really simple. Even a kid can understand it. Spend less than you earn, save the rest. Simple, isn’t it?  But how many [...]

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Online deposits : How to deposit a check online/without an ATM

I love my Schwab account. The only reason I stayed with Bank of America till now is because I wanted a way to deposit my checks without mailing them. I already get ATM fee reimbursement, no foreign exchange, free checks and a small interest for my Schwab investor checking account. I was really waiting for [...]

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