Monthly Archives: April 2012

I Heart 100 Comments

My Guest Post at Blogelina’s Summarizing My Experience With the 100 Comment Event

guest post
A few weeks ago I participated in an event at Blogelina's and today she has graciously allowed me to guest post at her blog with my post 6 Things I Learned From Participating in Blogelina's 100 Comments Event. The post I participated in the event was10 Things We Hate Spending Our Hard Earned Money On.  I had a lot of great comments which resulted in another post entitled 47 More Things We Hate to Spend Our Hard Earned Money On.… Read the rest

Could I Please Speak to an American?

saving money
A few days ago while driving home from work – using my headset so that I could keep both hands on the steering wheel, of course – I was making phone calls.  One was to determine the process we will be going through to move Mr. A's cell phone service from Verizon to T-Mobile.  I had also decided to call DirecTV to see if I could reduce our channels in an effort to save some money.   The cost for DirecTV… Read the rest
Pile of Credit Cards

8 Insider Tips To Outsmart Your Credit Card Issuer And Save Big on Interest

guest post
Today I have a guest post from Bill Hazelton, CEO and Founder of Credit Card Assist.  Bill interviewed me in his Best of the Best Bloggers Series in January, and today he is going to share some tips for reduce your interest rates on your credit cards.  It looks like I have some negotiating tips to try! It seems we are reminded daily about issues related to the banking industry, from banks purportedly too big to fail, reports of historic… Read the rest
MagicJack Plus

Have You Ever Used MagicJack Plus?

saving money
I decided to try out MagicJack Plus a couple of weeks ago.  I received the equipment in the mail, but I have not hooked it up yet.  I began looking into it because our broadband service provider has decided to discontinue the VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) line that we've had for the past couple of years. There is a slight difference between MagicJack and MagicJack Plus. From what I understand, MagicJack needs to be plugged into a computer and… Read the rest