LinearChaos on November 10th, 2009

One of my favorite coupon bloggers posted a monster coupon haul that she donated to her local food back through her daughters school food drive.
The Coupon Goddess made $104.45 by purchasing $1,679.56 worth of products from Shaws and she says she’s only HALFWAY though with this great sale.
I love to see people helping other people [...]

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By Gregory Sessa
If you owned stocks or mutual funds at the start of the 21st century, you no doubt felt the financial pain of the market’s crash. Between the stock market’s peak in March 2000 to its subsequent bottom in October 2002, and then the drop again in 2008 and 2009, the combined market value [...]

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LinearChaos on September 29th, 2009

Do you rent? Do you have renters insurance? Too many renters don’t even think about obtaining a renters insurance policy. After all they’re renting right, what the heck do they have to protect, they don’t own the place.
Maybe you don’t need to worry about protecting the structure itself, but what about your stuff and yourself? [...]

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LinearChaos on August 23rd, 2009

Happy Sunday!
I’m back from a week long vacation in the mountains of Colorado. Was looking for a week of nothing, nothing wasn’t exactly what happened since I work many jobs and they always seem to hunt me down no matter what I do or where I go. Eh, I did get some time to myself [...]

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LinearChaos on July 31st, 2009

Happy Friday!
Here’s the 4th installation in the couponing video series. Walk through the store and see how it’s all put into action! Even get some products for FREE, up for free.

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LinearChaos on March 12th, 2009

I don’t think so and neither does David over at the personal finance blog, Money Under 30: Personal Finance for the Young and Ambitious. David tells us in the following post why renting is not wasting money.
Do you agree?
All my friends who bought homes before their 30th birthday love to proclaim that they’re no [...]

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LinearChaos on February 27th, 2009

I dunno about you other college grads, but I almost had a heart attack when my graduate loans went into repayment. If you’re like me and you’ve followed the advice of the Clinton administration, your parents, and society to get that golden ticket of a college degree (in my case several college degrees), then you’re [...]

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LinearChaos on February 7th, 2009

We all know about Fair Isaac, the company responsible for the formula behind the sometimes-elusive FICO score. Well, the FICO has been ready for an update for while now and it’s finally being rolled out.
The new formula, FICO 08, is intended to provide a more accurate risk assessment of credit history. The formula has been [...]

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LinearChaos on January 14th, 2009

Mint seems to be all the rage, everywhere I look someone is talking about Mint.
Mint is a new online money management site in a similar vein to Yodlee and Wesabe, allowing users to visit one web portal to all of their accounts and financial information vs. logging in to a separate banking site for each [...]

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LinearChaos on January 12th, 2009

I was checking out A Full Cup the other day and I ran across a really great e-book written by Carin Dowling. She effectively demystifies the art of couponing. Describes each type of coupon, how to use them, where to find them, how to organize them, and how to get the maximum savings.
Dowling tackles the [...]

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