Here are some of my favorite FiveCentNickel (subscribe) posts from a year ago this week:
» Money Saving Tip for the Recently (or Soon-to-Be) Unemployed
» Solving Customer Service Problems
» Skip Lunch, Save $100k
» Dish Network Customer Service Salvation (At Long Last)
And here’s what was going on two years ago:
» Buying a New Car
» Misguided Money Fears
» [...]
Archive for September 2007
From the Archives (September 16th – September 22nd)
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Published on September 23rd, 2007 - Leave a Comment
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Weekly Roundup – Mobile Web Edition
Written by Nickel - One Comment
Okay, now that I have a Treo smartphone, I figured that it was high time that I join the mobile web revolution. So… As of right now, FiveCentNickel and Raising4Boys are both available in a special mobile-optimized format for those of you that want to read the site on your phone/pda (details).
What do you have [...]
Published on September 22nd, 2007
Modified on July 6th, 2008 - One Comment
Filed under: Link Love
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Modified on July 6th, 2008 - One Comment
Filed under: Link Love
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Q&A: Debt Reduction Strategy
Written by Nickel - 12 Comments
A reader recently wrote in with what he termed a “complex question” about creative strategies for debt reduction.
My wife and I have FICO scores around 750. We have about $28K of debt on top of $238K in two mortgages (191K & 47K). The first is at 5.75% for another 5 years, while the second is [...]
Published on September 21st, 2007
Modified on August 14th, 2008 - 12 Comments
Filed under: Credit Cards, Debt Reduction, Money Q&A, Mortgages
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Modified on August 14th, 2008 - 12 Comments
Filed under: Credit Cards, Debt Reduction, Money Q&A, Mortgages
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Carnivals – Week of 09/17/07
Written by Nickel - One Comment
FiveCentNickel participated in five carnivals this week. Here they are along with links to my articles that were included in each.
The Festival of Frugality included “High Electric Bills and the Battle Against Increasing Energy Costs.” Also included was “How to Build a Double (or Single) Desk on the Cheap” from raising4boys.com.
The Carnival of Personal Finance [...]
Published on September 20th, 2007 - One Comment
Filed under: Carnivals
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Filed under: Carnivals
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ING Direct Cuts Interest Rate
Written by Nickel - 27 Comments
Just quick note to let everyone know that ING Direct has dropped the rate on the Orange Savings account to 4.30% APY. The driving force behind this decrease was the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut the federal funds rate by 0.50% earlier this week. While I would expect other banks to eventually follow suit, it’s [...]
Published on September 20th, 2007
Modified on July 23rd, 2008 - 27 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Online
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Modified on July 23rd, 2008 - 27 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Online
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Vanguard Reduces Barrier to Entry for Voyager Services
Written by Nickel - 3 Comments
We recently received a packet of information from Vanguard welcoming us to their “Voyager Services.” Vanguard Voyager is a service for customers with a minimum of $100k in assets held with Vanguard. It used to be that this minimum was $250k, and I always had that in the back of my mind as an intermediate [...]
Published on September 20th, 2007
Modified on July 29th, 2008 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Saving & Investing
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Modified on July 29th, 2008 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Saving & Investing
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Dealing With Found Money, Followup
Written by Nickel - 30 Comments
The other day, I asked readers how they’d handle finding a large sum of money in a wallet with no ID. For background, my wife and I ran into this exact situation about ten years ago… We were living on a shoestring and about to have a baby (in fact, we were past my wife’s [...]
Published on September 19th, 2007
Modified on December 20th, 2007 - 30 Comments
Filed under: Miscellany
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Modified on December 20th, 2007 - 30 Comments
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Sprint SERO Update: My Treo 755p Arrived
Written by Nickel - 2 Comments
Just a quick note to say that I received my Treo 755p yesterday, just one day after I got Sprint PCS to manually add the new SERO line to my account. Given how long I spent on the phone with them, I was somewhat surprised that they’d be able to do anything this quickly.
I honestly [...]
Published on September 19th, 2007 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Miscellany
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Sprint PCS SERO Signup Glitches
Written by Nickel - 2 Comments
Ugh. Over the weekend I was scanning through my spam folder before cleaning it out when I found a message from Sprint regarding my SERO plan. In short, they’ve been having problems fulfilling my order:
Thank you for your order! Reviewing your credit score is taking longer than expected. As part of processing your credit application, [...]
Published on September 18th, 2007 - 2 Comments
Filed under: Miscellany
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Bonds Ball is Up For Voting
Written by Nickel - 8 Comments
In case you haven’t heard, the ball from Barry Bonds’ 756th homerun sold for a whopping $752,467.
The winning bidder was fashion designe Marc Ecko, who wanted to “democratize the ball.” To this end, he has put up a website call Vote756.com
A) Bestow it
Give the ball to Cooperstown. The ball that broke Hank Aaron’s career [...]
Published on September 17th, 2007 - 8 Comments
Filed under: Miscellany
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