Archive for September, 2008


Gaming the Grocery System

Grocery Game finally has my local supermarket! I joined a couple weeks ago and have saved about $70 already!
What is Grocery Game?
The Grocery Game website creates a shopping list for your supermarket each week. It calculates the sale price and any coupons out there that will work for the product. The list identifies free [...]


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What Am I Supposed to Buy at Costco?

Our brand new Costco just opened last month. There’s a lot of hype, and I heard through a rumor that they’ve already had 14,000 people sign up since they opened. (No idea if that’s true or not.) Maybe all those people know something that I don’t. So what is it exactly that I’m supposed to [...]


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$25 Sign Up Bonus From Costco and American Express

I keep the Best Cash Rewards Credit Cards updated regularly. One of the cards added after it was first published was the TrueEarnings® Card from Costco and American Express.
What caught my eye, was the free money available right now! You can earn a $25 statement credit with your first purchase.
$25 From Costco and American Express

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Roth IRA Conversion Strategy to Avoid Taxes

As 2010 approaches, many people are positioning themselves to take advantage of the Roth IRA Workaround and the 2010 Conversion Limit Loophole.
2010 Roth IRA Conversion
Normally there is a $100,000 income limit (MAGI) on the ability to convert from a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA. 2010 is the year that the limit disappears. In [...]


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A Penny Saved is… $6,977.03!

My favorite article this week is Every Penny Counts at The Dollar Stretcher. (Found on StumbleUpon early this morning when I couldn’t sleep.)
Whenever my friends and family downplay the results of saving a little money here or there, I almost always respond with “What if you invested that money for 40 or 50 years?” or [...]


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