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The House just passed the Cash for Clunkers stimulus bill. Here are some of the details that we can expect to see in it when the president signs it…

It really is possible to pay off your cars - and it puts you at a huge financial advantage!! These are the steps we took to pay off our cars…

I know some of you out there regularly tell your spouse, “if I could do it all over again, I would never do _____, and I would definitely do ______.” Well, I need your help.
As you may or may not know, Linda and I are going to be first time home buyers this year and [...]

If I told you that you could make a 158% annualized return by investing in a high-efficiency toilet, you might tell me to take a hike…

I was trying to find a way to get free long distance calls and I found this to be the best solution…

I must say that I really get a kick out of doing little things that will pay big dividends. So each of these 6 items offer a little bit of that promise. Put a few bucks in now and save more! What I love about it is that, you can run out and buy everything mentioned here and actually be richer in a year! Yes you are welcome!

I don’t remember what the interest rate was that they were charging her, but it was obviously pretty ridiculous. And for me, even though I was playing the 0% balance transfer game with all of my credit cards, It wasn’t until I saw this that I finally understood the importance of having a good interest rate.

I just found out about a couple cool tools to make some cash when shopping online. The first of which is Ebates. I will write about the other one soon. Basically, merchants pay eBates to refer customers to them. eBates then pays a chunk of that back to the shoppers themselves. Win, win, win.

This was a trick I discovered late in college, that I wish I would have known about earlier, it could have saved me thousands over my college years. It shouldn’t take more than a hour and could save you hundreds each semester.

Yep, it is true, I just switched over to Geico and saved $330 per year on my car insurance. From what I have seen of Geico so far is very promising, but I don’t think the truth really comes out with insurance companies until you actually have a claim.

Well, to make my car maintenance a lot easier I now do it all on two days during the year. I call it, (pause like Dr. Evil) Car Day. I pick a nice day in March and September and do all of my car maintenance on those days. And I actually look forward to it. Here is how: