I decided to start a new weekly feature here at My Two Dollars called “Favorite Blog Wednesday”. In this series I will take a look at a bunch of personal finance blogs that A. Inspired me to start writing my own personal finance site and B. You should hopefully be reading already.
If you are [...]
Ok readers…if anyone of you have any experience with this, please let me know. As I have mentioned before, I work from home, both as an employee for a company and a freelancer. So I spend about 9 hours a day sitting in my home office staring at a computer screen. And yes, it [...]
If you have not already, you might want to head on over to Frugal For Life, where the 60th Festival of Frugality was put up this morning by Dawn. Be ready for a new experience this time, it is not like any other festival you have seen!
Thanks to Dawn for including my post about using [...]
This is just…..insane. And a complete waste of money. What ever happened to going in the restroom of that 757 and doing your business? Ok ok, neither I nor anyone I know has ever done it, but still. For “only” £750, you too can enjoy 90 minutes in a private plane to [...]
Back in January I posted about trying out Blockbuster Online to compare it to our existing Netflix account. They offered a 2 week trial which ended today and I have already canceled my account and returned our last movie to them. I wanted to compare a few things like delivery times, movies in stock [...]
Trent over at The Simple Dollar has put together a great Carnival of Personal Finance this week. Some highlights?
Five Cent Nickel discusses ways to save the planet and save money on utilities. I am a sucker for environmental posts, so this one gets top billing.
Money, Matter & More Musings looks at the psychology [...]
So, the Indianapolis Colts have walked away with the Super Bowl as many expected. My poor wife is still sitting in the other room trying to grasp what just happened to her beloved Bears. 20 years they have waited to get back in the game, and they blew it big time. Watching their [...]
I just got an email from American Airlines (my airline of choice) offering 2 free companion tickets within the domestic U.S. for $134. I took some time to really dig around the information and went ahead and bought the membership to AATravelPerks to get our free tickets along with a bunch of other discounts that [...]
Just a quick note that if anyone needs a 40% off coupon to Cost Plus, leave a comment and/or contact me and I will email it to you. It expires tomorrow and my wife already used hers for something or another for the kitchen.
In our quest to become financially independent, my wife and I often dream up ways to make some extra money. Sometimes these ideas are so off the wall that only she and I find them “reasonable”, and other times they could actually fly as real ideas. There have been several times when one [...]
