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Crazy mark ups

Pre-Cut Produce Pre-cut fruits and vegetables didn’t even exist 10 years ago, but we spent more than $600 million on prepared salads alone last year. While grabbing pre-cut fruit and vegetables can help cut down on your time in the kitchen, that small convenience carries a big price. It’s safe to say you are paying [...]

Title and Personal Loans

The definition of a personal loan is a small loan that is used for any personal financial reason. If a loan is given to an individual for personal reasons then it is considered a personal loan, whether it is secured by collateral or not. This is the true definition of a personal loan. When you [...]

New Car Smell

The North American International Auto Show started Saturday, so we all will be getting that itch for a new car. Before you run out and slap a down payment on a new Prius, think about what you’re doing. If you don’t have a car payment, and your car is running great, the sole reason you [...]

Tick, tick, tick, tick…

Waiting is hard when you need something now. Long traffic lights or lines at the post office can drive a person batty. Perhaps one of the most aggravating things to wait for is money, especially when you really need it. Everyone has to wait for their paychecks, but we expect it. But when an unexpected [...]

New Year’s Resolutions

It’s a new year again, and time to make resolutions. Right up there with resolving to go to the gym is managing debt. Why is this? Well, just think about the first time you were introduced to credit cards. For most people, college is the first time credit card vendors begin offering the promise of [...]

Are You Maxed Out?

I hope everyone had a great holiday. I know I did, but maybe you didn’t make it through the holidays in the best shape. Perhaps you have hit the limit on your credit cards and now you have to pay them back. You have been making phone calls all over town asking to borrow money. [...]

I can has a couple hundred?

Thanks to the rising prices of just about everything in the consumer market in the US, more and more people are finding they need to borrow a little money. Our bills don’t stop coming, they may even be getting bigger, and our debts don’t just go away on their own. Even if you make an [...]

How To Cash In On The Holidays

Get Easy Money With Car Title Loans What is a Cash Auto Title Loan? An auto title loan allows you to receive cash fast without any hassle by using your car title as the collateral for the loan. Trying to get a loan today has become an increasingly difficult and lengthy process. Bad credit problems [...]

Almost Free Restaurant Gift Certificates

Almost FREE to eat at local restaurants Tracy Coenen Nov 19th 2008 at 1:30PM Filed under: Food Run right over to Restaurant.com, do not pass go, do not collect $200. But you DO get great restaurant certificates almost FREE. Normally the site sells $25 gift certificates for $10. Through tomorrow, you can get a $25 [...]

Useless Gadgets You Should Stop Wasting Money On

Landline Phones There’s one big reason that people keep a landline at home: 911 calls. The landline runs off power from the telephone line itself (a neat precursor to power over ethernet) so if there’s a blackout, the calls still go through (unless you have a cordless handset, of course). And because a landline is [...]