And we’re off! By the time you read this, we’ll be well on our way… We’re headed out for a relaxing (and reasonably long) summer vacation that will involve a little better than 1300 miles driving in each direction (plus some local miles at the far end). I’ll have intermittent internet access, so I’ll try [...]

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Just over a year ago we sold our house and moved from one state to another. As part of this process, we held a huge and rather successful moving sale. What follows is a list of tips that contributed to the success of our sale. The main caveat here is that we generally run our [...]

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Did you know that you can make PayPal payments using your cell phone? And I’m not talking here about a fancy-schmancy web-enabled phone, although that would allow you to simply surf on over to PayPal.com. Rather, I’m talking about a run-of-the-mill cell phone. Here’s the deal…

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After having moved a year ago, we finally got around to closing our old checking account (we had long since drawn the balance down to zero) and updating some of the links to our online savings accounts. In case you’re wondering how to link additional accounts to your Emigrant Direct savings account, wonder no more… [...]

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Here are some of my favorite FiveCentNickel (subscribe) posts from a year ago this week:
» Our John Deere Model 125 Lawn Tractor
» Hampton Inn’s 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
» Reducing Our Electrical Usage, Update #1
» Cut Costs (and Buy a Plasma TV)
» The Dish Network Runaround
And here’s what was going on two years ago:
» A Penny Saved [...]

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Well, here we are… In a few days we’ll be taking off for vacation, so we’ve been madly rushing around trying to tie up loose ends in advance of our departure. If you’re interested in contributing a guest post, please let me know. Note that we’re also looking for guest bloggers over Raising4Boys.In other news, [...]

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As I noted earlier this week, today is the deadline for second quarter estimated tax payments. Since we’ve experience a relatively sizable uptick in income that’s not subject to withholding, we’re actually on our own for a good bit in the way of taxes. That being said, we can can actually hold back a [...]

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The other day I went to check the transaction history on my new 457(b) and I noticed that, even though it had been 13 days since I got paid (and thus since my monthly contributions were withheld), the money still hadn’t shown up over at TIAA-CREF. Perhaps this is standard operating procedure for most investment [...]

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In case you haven’t heard, the credit card documentary “Maxed Out” (IMDB reviews) just came out on DVD. I have yet to see it, but I just added it to our Blockbuster Total Access queue, so it won’t be long now.
If you’ve seen it, what did you think?
Update: Here’s a review from Beyond the Consumer.
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About ten months ago I wrote about Bank of America making improvements to their ATM deposit procedure by implementing a system that allows for the scanning of cash and checks as they are inserted into the machine. Well, at long last it’s finally available in our area and last night I had an opportunity to [...]

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