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Travel Tips

Save On Travel Costs; Avoid Airline Fees

Tweet Have you flown recently? Have you booked a flight? Likely, you’ve experienced a certain measure of sticker shock if you haven’t flown in many months and see what airlines

Education Tips

Apple Appears Ready To End AT&T iPhone Exclusivity

Tweet Apple’s iPhone has been a boon for AT&T, the only cell phone carrier allowed to market the phone. Since its introduction in Summer 2007, the iPhone has been a

Education Tips

8 Money Drains On Your Budget

Tweet Are you coming up short every month? Are you living from paycheck to paycheck? Unfortunately, you are not alone. Lots of Americans aren’t just pinched—they’re feeling squeezed. Worse, many

Education Tips

7 Best Online Shopping Websites

Tweet The internet has changed the way we live our lives providing useful and relevant information at the click of a mouse. Online shopping has exploded in use, but there

Education Tips

7 Consumer Websites To Keep You From Being Stupid

Tweet “An educated consumer is our best customer,” was a phrase used for many years by SYMS, a discount department store founded in New York in 1959. That statement says

Home Tips

Lawn Care Equipment & Your New Home

Tweet Thousands of new homeowners will be undertaking fresh projects for the first time as warmer weather begins to settle in over the coming weeks. That means people who purchased

Home Tips

You Can Get Your Yard Spring Ready

Tweet Have you had enough of winter yet? I know that I have. And, I don’t even live in an area that gets a lot of snow. Still, chilly days

Education Tips

Appliance Rebate Program Overwhelms Websites

Tweet All fifty US states and six territories and the District of Columbia are participating in a federally funded appliance rebate program, one that has its roots in the American

Education Tips

Consumer Fraud Alert: ATM Skimming

Tweet Using an automatic teller machine (ATM) has its risks especially at night, or in poorly lit areas, or wherever traffic is infrequent. A criminal element is often at work,

Education Tips

Home Refinancing Post Bankruptcy – Is This Possible?

Tweet As the financial markets heave, millions of American are finding it increasingly difficult to keep up with their bills. Furloughs, lay offs, and salary reductions are weighing in. In

Education Tips

How To Survive An IRS Tax Audit

Tweet You’ve just received the one notification everyone dreads: the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has decided to audit your tax returns. Don’t panic: 1.4 million Americans were audited in 2009

Education Tips

Enjoy Tax Credits For Energy Conservation

Tweet Who knew that conserving energy in the home can be so very beneficial financially? If you made a purchase in 2009 or are planning to make one in 2010

Education Tips

Finding Food When Everyone Else Panics

Tweet I just got word from a friend who lives in the snow belt—currently defined as that swath of land from Virginia northward through New England—that their local grocery store

Fun Stuff

Valentine’s Day Fun Facts

Tweet There are major holidays and then there are Hallmark holidays, the latter falling under the category of less important celebrations which are still oftentimes acknowledged through the sending of

Fun Stuff

Groundhog Day Eccentricities Abound

Tweet Rodent’s annual showing inspires frivolity, even controversy “How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?” That question can best be answered with another riddle: