Archive for January, 2009


Amboy Direct $25 Sign Up Bonus

Posted by Madison on January 16th, 2009

Amboy Direct is offering a $25 sign up bonus. You know the deal, Free Money Friday is all about bonus money! How to Get Your Sign up Bonus Open a new Amboy Direct savings account and use the Reference Code: 102417 on the application. Keep a minimum balance of $3,000 or more for 90 days. [...]

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Time to Refinance?

Posted by Madison on January 15th, 2009

It’s a good thing I don’t have a job! Or else I’d be refinancing again… I think in the past 7 years, we’ve had 3 houses, and at least 8 mortgages! It seems like every time I turn around there is a lower rate, or a better loan. I turned into a refinance junkie. I [...]

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Free Suze Orman Book, Business Tax Software, and More!

Posted by Madison on January 14th, 2009

I’m always looking at monthly services that we have and finding ways to pay a little less. My favorite article this week is how to Save Money on Your Landline Phone. Lazy compares various phone options including Vonage (what we use), Skype, and MagicJack. It’s nice to pay less than $20 per month for something [...]

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Making Our First Estimated Tax Payment

Posted by Madison on January 13th, 2009

After running our projections for the 2008 tax year, I found we were slightly short of the minimum withholding for our state taxes. Luckily, there’s an easy way to avoid a penalty for our state, you just send in an estimated tax payment, due on January 15. In addition, because I quit my job last [...]

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16 Ways to Do It Yourself

Posted by Madison on January 12th, 2009

Do you do it yourself…. or do you pay someone to do it for you? Sometimes we’ve been paying someone to do something for us for so long, it would never occur to us that we could do it on our own to save some money. And sometimes we just think we don’t have enough [...]

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