personal finance tips, tricks, and commentary
Here’s a quick tip for those of you that are intent on giving gifts cards this holiday season… Check your local grocery store to see if they sell gift cards for major retailers and restaurants. For example, you can effectively get a $25 card for $23.75 or a $50 gift card for $47.50.
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Read Buying Gift Cards at a Discount (Links)
I just wanted to give a shout out to the sites that have referred the most visitors to FiveCentNickel over the past four weeks. What follows is a list of the top 10 weblog referrers over the past four weeks: | | 1. And if you didn?t make the list, there?s still hope?
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Read Thanks For Your Support - December 2007 (Links)
Read Eleven Great Books About Money (Links)
Here are some of my favorite FiveCentNickel (subscribe) posts from a year ago this past week:| |» The Biggest Saver| |» Savers vs. Spenders - Does There Always Need to be a Fight?| |» Property Taxes on my Mind| |» eBay to the Rescue| | || | | |
Read From the Archives (December 2nd - December 8th) (Links)
Now we just have to finish Christmas shopping! | | And now here’s my gift to you… A compilation of articles that caught my eye this week. | | | | NCN cautioned us to avoid the mall. | | FMF pointed out an interesting article about a guy who lived in the Mall of America for a week.
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?If you owe the bank $100, that?s your problem. Now that these rates are resetting, many borrowers can’t afford the payments, and lenders are facing staggering losses. | | Obviously, this is bad for everyone involved.
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Read Thoughts on the Subprime Mortgage Bailout (Links)
I received the following question regarding flexible spending accounts (FSAs) from a reader the other day: | | “My employer is asking me to sign a form to reimburse them for FSA funds distributed but not yet set aside (I’m leaving before the plan year ends).
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If you have any suggestions of your own, please be sure to post them in the comments. | | | | 1. So don’t leave things to the last minute like we did last year — if you do and any problems crop up, you won’t have time to get things straightened out. | | 5.
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This past weekend we had to replace our vacuum cleaner. Their top rated model (the XL21-700, $750) rounded out the top 12. | | In the end, we went Sears Kenmore Porgressive w/Direct Drive for a couple of reasons… First, it was the top performer despite having a mid- to lower-end price tag.
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Read Shopping for (and Buying) a New Vacuum Cleaner (Links)
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