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Fun Stuff

Fall Fun: How To Bob For Apples

Tweet If you’re looking for a fall fun activity, bobbing for apples can provide lots of laughs for adults and squeals of delight from children, never mind a whole host

Autos Express

$45K Price Tag For Coda Electric Vehicle

Tweet Coda Automotive, a car company you never heard of, has priced the first vehicle they’ll ever sell: the five-passenger all-electric CODA sedan. Yes, not exactly a memorable name, but

Product Reviews

Product Review: Chargepod by Callpod

Tweet If you’re like most families, you own several cell phones, a digital camera, a gaming system, a music player and other devices which need to be plugged in when

Education Tips

How to Pick the Perfect Pumpkin

Tweet September is a prime harvest month, with the last batch of summer produce hitting the market. Corn is about done, fresh tomatoes will soon be a thing of the

Home Tips

Remove Fall Leaves the Smart Way!

Tweet Raking leaves is a no-brainer, right? Well, yes. But, it can also become back breaking work, consume more time than you like and become a hassle especially if you

Travel Tips

Bad Weather Coming? Don’t Forget The Pets!

Tweet Hurricane season isn’t the only time of the year when bad weather can change your plans. If the tempest becomes bad enough you may have to evacuate your home

Money News

Bleak Job Outlook Portends Weak Christmas Shopping Season

Tweet Holiday shopping may take a hit in 2011 Consumer Reports is reporting that American consumers are managing their finances better, but a worsening job picture and falling retail sales

Home Tips

6 Timely Home Winterizing Tips

Tweet With summer coming to an end, thoughts of winter are hardly being entertained as leaves begin to change, apples ripen and pumpkins are ready for the picking. Yet, by

Consumer Financing

Should You Take the Rebate or the Auto Financing?

Tweet If you’re planning to buy a new car, more than likely the dealer will offer you some sort of incentive to help persuade you to buy. Incentives usually always

Credit Cards

How to Get a Bad Credit Credit Card

Tweet If you have bad credit, that means your credit score is about as low as it can get and is likely very deep into sub-prime lending territory. Perhaps you’ve

Credit Reports

3 Consumer Credit Reporting Bureaus

Tweet If you apply for a credit card, take out a mortgage on a home, buy a car or even start a new job or rent an apartment, your credit

Autos Express

Should I Buy An Electric Vehicle?

Tweet Electric vehicles are on their way or are already here if you include the $119,000 limited production Tesla Roadster in the mix. The Tesla has been on the market

Education Tips

Craigslist and Selling Your Stuff Online

Tweet We’ve gone into detail about how best to hold a garage, yard or estate sale on these pages, but we realize that these kind of sales aren’t always the

Social Media

Mid-September Release For Facebook Nemesis Diaspora

Tweet September 15 launch date announced We’ve been silent for most of this summer about Diaspora (the upstart social network alternative to Facebook) as it percolates. The open source project

Money News

Consumer Confidence Lacking For Real Estate Market

Tweet Consumer confidence remains low when it comes to the housing market with 1 in 3 thinking that the worst has yet to come. At the same time, some 38