The Sun's Financial Diary

The Wall Street Journal is one of those websites I visit everyday. I have it on My Yahoo home page, so I can get all the news rather quickly. In fact, I have used stories on the WSJ as basis of my posts many times in the past. The problem with the WSJ is that [...]

From December 1 to Christmas, Amazon.com is offering a new song, hand-picked by Amazon MP3 editors, everyday to its customers for free. That’s 25 free MP3 downloads in 25 days. Today’s free song is “Joy to the World” by Casting Crowns. Check out Amazon 25 Days of Free page to get your free MP3 daily [...]

I got my free subscription of both the BusinessWeek and Forbs last time when the free offer was available early this year, so the deal is real. Now it’s alive again, so if you are interested, you can use this link to get the free magazine if you want to have it. All you need [...]

If you like to play the Monopoly, you will love this new online game by Hasbro, called Monopoly City Streets, an online version of the popular board game powered by Google Map.

The game, launched yesterday, 09/09/09, is “an immersive experience that gives players a chance to experience the thrill of negotiating and building first hand. [...]

A little more two weeks ago, I wrote a post on where to get free one-year subscription of BusinessWeek magazine. I didn’t really expect the magazine to come because I had similar experience before with some promised free magazines that never arrived. But this time I am pretty surprised when I saw the latest issue [...]

Here’s another promotion from Schick for its Quattro Titanium Razor/Trimmer. It was almost a year ago when Schick had a similar promotion.
Even though I realized that there are already a bunch of razors in my closet, I signed up to get another one anyway because it’s free and I never pass a free stuff that [...]

Not sure whether you will get what is promised or not, but I figure it doesn’t hurt to try this free offer.
To get the free, one-year subscription of BusinessWeek, all you need to do is complete a short, one-page survey on MP3 player, costing a minute or two of your time. At the end you [...]

Don’t have a GPS unit yet? Get one for free.
KeyBank, which used to offer free iPod in the past for its checking accounts, now gives Garmin nüvi GPS for free if you open an new account April 24, 2009.
Two models of Garmin GPS are offered in this deal: nüvi 205W GPS ($159 value) for either [...]

In case you can use it, TurboTax is offering a FREE, downloadable version of TurboTax Business 2008, valued at $. The software can only be used for your business, not your personal tax filing (click here if you are looking for personal TurboTax software, here for Quicken $20 off offers).

To download the software, you need [...]

Suze Orman is offering a free, downloadable version of her book, Suze Orman’s 2009 Action Plan (PDF file), at oprah.com. The 227-page book has 10 chapters:

2009: The New Reality
A Brief History of How We Got Here
Action Plan: Credit
Action Plan: Retirement Investing
Action Plan: Saving
Action Plan: Spending
Action Plan: Real Estate
Action Plan: Paying for College
Action Plan: Protecting Your [...]