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Sunday Money Roundup – Move Your Money Edition.

Have you heard about the Move Your Money campaign yet? Thousands of people have pledged to move their money away from the casino-style Too Big To Fail banks and give their money to community banks and credit unions. I moved all my money away from Bank of America into Schwab – which while not a credit union, they didn’t take a dime of bail out money. If you bank with one of the huge banks, you may want to check out the campaign! On to the roundup…

Your Finances 101 talks about a recent experience with Pep Boys with Don’t Be a Mule: Auto Repair.

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Sunday Money Roundup – AT&T Sent Me $2 Edition.

On Friday, I opened an envelope from AT&T, figuring it was some change in my terms and conditions. However, I was pleasantly surprised that it was a single piece of paper with two $1 bills inside it. They wanted to thank me for taking some survey I took a while ago, and thus the $2. While I appreciate the dough, I can’t help but wonder why they went to the trouble of having letters and addresses printed and spending money on postage – when they could have just credited my account the $2. This is the kind of wasted money that drives me bananas because I imagine it just increases our monthly bills somehow. Thanks for the $2 bucks guys, but next time, just credit my account and save yourselves (and me, in return) some money!

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Sunday Money Roundup – Sell An Old iPhone Edition.

This past week I sold my original 2G iPhone for over $200 – more than I paid for it years ago. Score! Seems these “no longer under contract” phones are worth some serious cash. I used it on AT&T for years until I got a 3GS model, and then a friend used it on T-Mobile for a while. And now someone else is going to use in on the network of their choice. I think this is the first time a piece of tech I owned was worth more money years after I bought it. Just hope I can do the same for this 3GS once the new ones come out! On to the roundup…

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Sunday Money Roundup – Nordstrom Rack Edition.

For Christmas, I received a sizable gift card to Nordstroms. Mind you, I have never shopped there or really ever been in one, but I was thrilled to be given some money to be spent on clothing, which I rarely buy for myself. So one day I grabbed my gift card and headed to the mall, where I almost had a heart attack looking at the prices of these clothes. $150 for jeans? $99 for a shirt? Um, at this rate all my money would have gotten me a whopping 2 or 3 items, which is crazy. Then someone reminded me about Nordstrom Rack and how much cheaper it was – and boy was he right! I went over there and spent only 1/4 of the value of my card on 3 new shirts, leaving me with plenty to go back again and look for more. So if you ever receive a Nordstom gift card, you may want to take it over to the rack so you can actually get more than 1 thing with it! On to the roundup…

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Sunday Money Roundup – Please Donate Edition.

If you haven’t already, PLEASE give at least a few bucks to the Haiti relief efforts. We all have it way better than they do on a daily basis, never mind when an earthquake hits. Please do the right thing and give a couple of bucks – it means a lot more to them than it does to you.

Cash Money Life wants to talk about paying off your second mortgage early.

Five Cent Nickel, on a similar note, has paid off their mortgage in under 10 years. Congrats!

Lazy Man & Money doesn’t care for Fandango Bucks… do you?

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