I recently got an email from a reader, Brenda. She’s worried about her family members who found themselves under a mountain of credit card debt. Originally they were able to keep them current and had good credit ratings. Unfortunately, when the husband lost his job last summer, they fell behind on the credit cards and [...]
The $25 sign up bonus from Etrade is back! This is one of the easiest Free Money Friday bonus offers and it usually shows up a few times during the year, but it doesn’t last long. This one expires 2/25/2009! How to Get Your Sign up Bonus The sign up is easy, it only took [...]
The search continues for my new brokerage account. This week I opened a new account at TradeKing. My TradeKing Review I’ve written about TradeKing before, because they offered a great sign up bonus in the past. I didn’t get a chance to open an account then, but I figured now was a great time, since [...]
Ouch! We just got our gas and electric bill for December. It was $470! It’s usually around $180, but the highest it has ever been is about $220. And the freezing cold days we’ve had in the last few weeks weren’t even included. I’m going to have to do some digging to find out what [...]
With credit card companies cracking down on unused accounts, it’s a good time to review our credit card accounts. We’ve gotten a few letters lately of closed accounts, from Chase and Citibank, for unused cards. Usually, I’m pretty diligent about using each card once per year, but I guess I got a little lazy! Sometimes [...]
