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How Companies Try to Scam Other Companies In Real Life

There are a lot of scams going on all over the place. They seem to come up with something new every day. Here are a few I’ve run into in the last few months.

The other day a call was transferred to my office at work. The person on the line wanted to let [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

The Discovery Card Plan

Last week I posted about how Discover raised my rates and I didn’t catch it for several months. I went through four scenarios of what I’d thought we could do about getting rid of the debt on that card, and I set up a poll asking for my readers to vote on what I [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Giveaway: TurboTax Deluxe Federal & State Return

I have one TurboTax Deluxe Federal and State Return card to giveaway. The card does not state anywhere on it but I believe the value is $50. The instructions on the card state 1) You must prepare your tax return online at turbotax.com 2) In the Print and File section, when you get to [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Discover Card Raised My Rates - Four Months Ago!

I’ve been going along merrily paying these dratted credit cards.  Discover was at 12.24% and I was okay with that. I haven’t wanted to do any balance transfers because I didn’t want to mess with my credit score since we were supposed to refinance our mortgage at the end of 2009. That never happened [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Paradigm Shifts with Money

Over at Debt Free Adventure, I read a post recently on how Matt sold his motorcycle on Craigslist and how he’d jumped on the first offer for the bike, only to find that a couple calls later someone was offering twice the amount he’d listed it for.   Awwwwwww, bummer.  Since he’d already call the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Emergency Fund - Your Take?

Abigail from I Pick Up Pennies and Brad from Enemy of Debt had a huge discussion in the comments section of a post by Brad called When You’re Tired of Being Broke, You’ll Start Saving. Abigail followed up with a post at her site called Controversy or just quibbling? and then Emergency Funds Yea [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Write Your Checks Correctly

I know many people don’t use checks very often, but a vast majority of Mr. A’s customers write him a check. We have only had one person ask to pay by credit card, and she ended up using a check in the end.

Recently we had a customer write a check and in the [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Friday Finds

Hello to all my lovely readers, how are you doing today? It’s bright and sunny in Arizona, warm but not hot yet.  We’ll have about one month of blissful weather and then it’ll be time to roast like we’re Thanksgiving turkeys.

Here are some great links I found around the blogosphere:

Elle from Couple [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

APS Offers $30 Rebate On Your Old Fridge

I wanted to share this information I came across over the weekend; maybe your utility company is doing something similar.  Arizona residents whose electricity is provided by Arizona Public Service are eligible for the APS Refrigerator Recycling Program.

Back in October 2009, I documented our discovery that old refrigerators and freezers do indeed cost [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Blast from the Past - March 2008

March 2008, ah the memories… walk with me down memory lane…

On the 1st, I wrote about Paying Off That 14.24% Credit Card, but by the 4th I was embarrassed and humiliated and depressed beyond words since I’d found out that we might have to pay $2000 to the Internal Revenue Service.  This [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]