Archive for August, 2006

August 2006 Score Card — Part I: Expenses

As the month of August has come to an end, it’s time to see how I did in the past month.
The first item on the score card is the monthly expenses. This is the first time in a while that I kept a complete record of how we spent the money this month. Not included […]

Got First Issue Of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance

I got the magazine for free from NetMagazines.com back in June with two-year subscription and I paid only $4.91 for S&H. I subscribed various financial magazines before, such as Money, Smart Money, Forbes, and Barron’s, but only for one or two years. The reason I eventually terminated all of them was that I couldn’t […]

Ok, Now It’s Official

Received in the mail tonight, starting October 13th, the new Citi Dividend Reward program works as follows:

2% cash back on purchases made at supermarket, drugstores, and gas station;
2% cash back or more at convenience stores and for electricity, gas, water supply, refuse services, excluding phone services;
1% cash back on all other purchases;
1% cash back on […]

Terrible Translation

I put up the Alta Vista translation button in my site today just for convenience, in case there is somebody across the world needs it. Later on, I decided to try it to see how it works and I selected Chinese. Well, a click on the flag brought me the translated text, which means it […]

How Do You Shop Online?

Do you go straight to the site or through a middle man? If the former is your choice, you probably missed some big cashbacks you could have earned on top of what your credit cards offer. There tons of sites offer cashback programs by shopping through them. You already spend the money, why not get […]

Save Money By Delivering Lay Off Notice Via Email

“The workforce reduction notification is currently in progress. Unfortunately your position is one that has been eliminated.”

This was part of the lay off notice sent to RadioShack employees by email Tuesday, reported USAToday.
Have employers really become cold-blooded when they drop their hardworking workers? Or they are so desperate in cutting expenses that they can’t afford […]

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