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Entries from September 2008

Earn money off of your idle gift cards?

September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment

If you are like me and have idle gift cards lying around then you could possibly earn interest on them. A site called LeverageCard allows you to register a large number of different gift cards and you can earn either 1% or 3.65% interest a week on them.
While this may not add up to alot […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Frugal

Alternative Income- Social Lending

September 24th, 2008 · No Comments

If you have not heard of social lending or peer to peer lending then you may be missing out on an opportunity to diversify your total investment portfolio. While there is various levels of risk in any investment lending money has its own risks and there are programs out there to help mitigate that risk and […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · College Savings · Finance · debt

Income from hobbies - Photography

September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

So you have gotten tired of taking your film to get developed and went and bought a good digital camera. You have been using it for awhile and now your running into a different issue, you have all these photos just sitting on your hard drive collecting virtual dust. Well have you thought about trying […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Fun

Make money from your computer while you sleep?

September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

Don’t you wish you could make money from your computer while you sleep? Well you can now with Gomez Peer. This is a paid distributed computing software model that is testing various websites uptime. The current pay design is the following:

Online Time Payments (per day)
$0.10

Processing Time Payments (per min.)
$0.0005

Referral Bonus (per Active Referral)
$1.00

Min. Monthly Payment
$5.00

Max. […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · Finance

Medical woes in retirement

September 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

I love when I see another article that just makes me feel better about decisions I have made in the past. Such as this article “The Health Scare Lurking In Your Retirement Plan” by Suze Orman on Yahoo. What this article is talking about is how it is estimated that in retirement a 65 year […]

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Tags: Finance · Insurance · debt

Frugal electricity

September 6th, 2008 · 2 Comments

We all get that electric bill some are just smaller then others, or pay you money. Why is it that someone who has a bigger place winds up paying less a month in electricity? Its simple they use energy efficient items.
Do you know how much money just your lighting is costing you in a month? […]

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Tags: Finance · Frugal

Car insurance and you

September 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Most people drive a car and if you drive a car you a required to have car insurance. No one likes having automobile insurance but it is a necessary evil. So what can you do to help limit this financial sink hole?
Many items affect the price of your premium. The first one is what color […]

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Tags: Finance · Insurance

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