After a thirteen-year run, the get-paid-to (GPT) site CashCrate is closing up shop as of April 1, 2019. They’re no longer accepting new accounts, and existing members have until the end of next month to earn the $20 to get paid, or else their balance for cash or free gift cards goes bye-bye. Originally I signed … Read more
Swago is on again through 1/28/2019. Earn up to 500 SB with Swago and 300 SB extra for signing up … There are lots of “get paid to” (GPT) sites out there, but I haven’t run across anyone that makes it as much fun as the guys at Prodege, the parent company that runs Swagbucks. … Read more
Saving money by cooking at home more? Don’t suffer with a lousy can opener … Preparing more meals at home is one of the most straightforward ways to save money. It’s also the key to making dinners that suit picky or otherwise restricted diets. A lot of the common staples for home-prepared meals come in … Read more
It’s time to get smart with some wise year-end financial moves. Here are five that we’re doing right now … Time flies by, faster and faster. Here it is, the end of December already?! Since most Americans file on a calendar-year basis, this is the time of year that finances get wrapped up, for better or … Read more
The cost of entertainment shouldn’t be too high. But it’s also very easy to underestimate the real cost … One of my longtime-favorite personal finance bloggers J. Money over at Budgets Are Sexy wrote a post on the “Buck an Hour” rule cost of entertainment, based on a prompting from one of his readers. The premise of … Read more
Unit pricing is helpful, but it’s only useful if the comparison is apples to apples, and as long as you don’t really want oranges … Even though our $80 Keurig machine isn’t ending up to be much of a bargain, we do still buy K-cups for the thing. They’re convenient and decent in a pinch, … Read more
On our trip to Florida this week, we saved some money literally by accident! Here’s how we did it, along with some other ways that are almost by accident … This past week, we took a family vacation down to the gulf side of Florida, in Indian Rocks Beach. The first night we went across … Read more
There’s never a good time to lose a wallet or a purse. Here are the steps we went through when we had a lost wallet to deal with … “I lost my wallet.” Not the worst words to hear over the phone on a Friday afternoon, of course, but certainly not the best, either. Almost … Read more