The website Raising 4 Boys has put together a great list of the “sales tax holiday” days by state that you should check out before heading out in August to buy the back to school goods for your kids. Be sure to go find when your state’s tax holiday is!
Although I don’t need it (thanks to Apple), you can get a copy of McAfee’s Internet Security Suite 2007 for free after rebate from Office Depot. It costs $69.99, but after 2 rebates of $60 and $10 it costs you nothing and you even make a penny on the deal. Pretty good deal on a pretty good piece of software I would say. If you are running Windows, you definitely need some security software!
For anyone seriously considering buying a new Apple computer, you might want to get a move on. If you are an educator, attending school or taking classes (even part time) or know someone who is, if you buy an Apple before September 16th you get a free 4GB iPod Nano (worth $199 bucks!) and you also can get a $100 rebate on a printer (basically making most printers free). That is $300 bucks back on things you might have been looking for anyway.
If you are a Firefox user (and if you aren’t yet, I am sorry!) and you do a lot of online shopping, you might want to get this extension from How To Be Web Smart that compares the price of something you want at sites like eBay, Amazon, Shopping and Shopzilla. Once you enter the item you are looking for in the search box and select the sites you want to see, it opens the results in separate tabs, enabling you to quickly check the listings on each site.
Every day I marvel at the stuff that Firefox can do…Thanks to Saving Advice for finding this one!
Two days ago, we went ahead and spent over $2,000 on a new computer. Believe me, it hurt like hell to spend the money, but sometimes you reach a point where in order to move forward, you have to drop a few dimes. My old computer, a 6 year old Apple G4, was slowly dying…programs not running very quickly, new programs not running at all…it was on it’s way out. For email and the internet it was fine, but since I do web design and video editing, I needed a new machine that would not take 6 hours to render a 10 minute video clip. So out came the credit card (to be paid off next week) and home came the new monster machine:
