Archive for January, 2008

Coupons are supposed to save you money. The idea is a company puts out special coupons offering a discounted price on their product in an effort to entice you to make the purchase. It used to be a weekly ritual after reading the Sunday paper to quickly grab a pair of scissors and start clipping [...]

For people who use their grocery store weekly circulars to find the lowest priced items, you might be happy to learn you can get all the local stores advertised prices in one place. Instead of running to the retail grocery market for the 10 sale items you need this week, then heading over to the [...]

The holiday season is over for most of us. But guaranteed a part of that season is going to stick with us for a long while – years even. How is that possible? Two words – credit cards. If you are one of many people who shopped for Christmas on credit, the statements you are [...]

If you open up Google and do a search for high-yield savings accounts, you’ll find dozens of different options. A lot of people look for the highest interest rates around and just go with whichever is currently offering the best rate, but this isn’t really a good way to search for an online savings account. [...]

At the beginning of each year many of us realize that we’re not exactly where we would like to be at in some part of our life, whether it’s our health, our relationships, our hobbies, our jobs or something else. We then resolve to improve some aspect of our life throughout the course of the [...]

Every year there’s a slew of new tax businesses that open in malls and vacant stores around the country. They’ll stay open until the beginning of May and then disappear for the rest of the year. As much as we like to make taxes seem much more complicated than they actually are, it’s pretty easy [...]

There’s a statistic that any given freshmen class will lose 10% of its students each semester of college. By the 4 or 5 years you’re at college, chances are you’ll be going to school with very few of the same people that you started college with. People drop out for a number of reasons. They [...]

It’s the beginning of a new year and people are once again worrying about the yearly chore of making the IRS happy. None of us like writing checks to the IRS, until we come up with some better laws in this country, that’s the way life is. With the 5.8% of your compensation that goes [...]

The Record Industry Association of America has used strong handed tactics in making sure content their artists produce is only used in the cookie cutter manners they deem appropriate and profitable, but some other companies and organizations have chosen a new route. Instead of litigating their younger customers into oblivion, companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, [...]