There’s been quite a bit of recent talk about rising natural gas prices, and it looks like our gas company may have been listening… We’re on their Equal Payment Plan, wherein they project our total usage over the next year and then bill us in eleven equal payments. In the twelfth month we settle up [...]
Archive for August 2005
Natural Gas Price Hike
Written by Nickel - 2 Comments
Published on August 19th, 2005 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Energy, House & Home
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Filed under: Energy, House & Home
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How High do Gas Prices Have to Go?
Written by Nickel - 7 Comments
The other day I was driving past a gas station and I saw someone filling up their Humvee. Given the most recent runup in gas prices, I couldn’t help but shake my head and chuckle. I have to admit that, while I don’t enjoy paying more for gas than I used to, I still get [...]
Double-Dipping With Citi Credit Protector
Written by Nickel - One Comment
As you may or may not recall, I received two sets of rebate coupons following my attempt to cancel to Citi’s Credit Protector service. Each set of coupons consists of 5 x $10 rebates, only one of which can be used per month. The point is to get you to stick with their service and [...]
Published on August 17th, 2005 - One Comment
Filed under: Credit Cards
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Filed under: Credit Cards
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Piggybacking on Your Neighbor’s WiFi
Written by Nickel - 109 Comments
CNN/Money recently ran an article about piggybacking on your neighbor’s wireless internet service rather than paying for your own, and they have since published a followup detailing reader reactions. While two-thirds of their poll respondents considered such network “sharing” to be stealing, the majority of those that actually took the time to write in were [...]
Published on August 16th, 2005 - 109 Comments
Filed under: Online
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Filed under: Online
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Press Any Key
Written by Nickel - 5 Comments
Completely off topic, but I ran across this entry in the Compaq support library the other day and found it very amusing. Apparently there’s enough dumb people in the world to warrant a FAQ entry dedicated to the idea that the phrase “press any key” actually means that you should press any one of the [...]
Recent eBay Results
Written by Nickel - 6 Comments
Just a quick followup to my previous entry about selling my stuff on eBay. The auctions are now complete, and I’m pleased to report that I ended up selling seven of the eight items. While all of the items that I listed were of the ‘cleaning out your closet’ sort, my total take was $278.66. [...]
My New Sanyo MM-7400 Cell Phone
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The other day I mentioned that I recently bought a new Sprint PCS cell phone, and have been playing around with a free trial of their unlimited internet access (a.k.a. Vision). The phone in question is a Sanyo MM-7400, and I thought I’d review a few of its features here for anyone that might be [...]
Published on August 14th, 2005 - Leave a Comment
Filed under: Reviews
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Rental Car Insurance
Written by Nickel - 10 Comments
Just a quick tip that I was reminded of when traveling recently… Car rental agencies do their best to push their overpriced insurance on you when you’re standing at the rental counter. Be prepared for their sales pitch by checking whether or not your own policy extends to rentals. In our case, it does. As [...]
Published on August 12th, 2005 - 10 Comments
Filed under: Travel
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Filed under: Travel
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Kids & Money: Tweaking our Allowance System
Written by Nickel - One Comment
I’ve written previously about the allowance system that we implemented for our kids, and I just thought I’d post a quick update as to how it’s been working, as well as how we’ve tweaked the system since we started. First off, I’d have to say that the system that we created is working quite well. [...]
Published on August 11th, 2005 - One Comment
Filed under: Family & Life
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Unsolicited eBay Advice
Written by Nickel - 11 Comments
I recently spent an afternoon listing a bunch of items for sale on eBay, and thought I’d pass on a few tips. These are a combination of things that I’ve found to be useful as an occassional seller of random stuff, as well as what I look for as a buyer…
Published on August 10th, 2005 - 11 Comments
Filed under: Online
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