Archive for September, 2008


Gaming the Grocery System

Posted by Madison

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 [...]

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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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UPDATE: The $25 bonus is no longer available for this card but it’s still one of the best cash rewards credit cards out there! 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. Details of [...]

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As 2010 approaches, many people are positioning themselves to take advantage of the special 2010 Roth Conversion Rules. 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 addition, you can [...]

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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?” [...]

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