I just bought a 2GB Secure Digital (SD) memory for about $19, made by Kingston. The 1GB SD memory is about $9, also made by Kingston. The original price for 2GB SD is $37.95 before tax, with $9 mail-in rebate, using $10 Google checkout reduction, and $0 for shipping. The rebate will expire on Oct …
Yes, Citibank Dividend Platinum Select card will no longer pay out 5% but 3% cashback on gasoline, grocery, and drug, starting October. I have found my replacement credit cards. I have planned to cancel my cards, and have applied & received the following two new credit cards: HSBC Direct Rewards Platinum credit card: Flat 5% …
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J.D. Roth at Get Rich Slowly has one of the best and comprehensive guide on credit card that I have ever seen. Any questions related to credit card probably can be answered here in his article. The article has collected the best sources of information from all of the PF bloggers, plus a lot of …
I just started carpooling with another work colleague a few months ago. I drive on Monday/Wednesday, while my partner drives on Tuesday/Thursday. Yeah, there is no rules in the book that says 1stMillionAt?? cannot carpool. Besides splitting the cost of gas money, there are a few other advantages & disadvantages from my own experience: Advantages: …
The purpose of allowance money is to allow an individual a certain amount of money to express one’s individuality in the form of using the money for his or her likings. What has been allowed should not be interfered. You may express your opinions on how the allowance could be used, but you don’t want …
As you may be aware from my previous cell phone post, that I was paying $3.21 a month for my cell phone on my AT&T (now Cingular) Free2Go plan. Because I could no longer buy those $10 refill card from grocery store, my minimum rate will be going to $8.33 a month instead (one $100 …
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This page will serve as the main page for the Rent vs Buy Calculator for any future update or user questions. For the most part, you shouldn’t need to read anything from this page, until you get into some very minor details. Documentation: The following 3 input boxes are co-dependent: Down payment, Down payment %, …
Sometimes I am simply blown away by my wife’s creative saving tips when shopping. If you don’t know that merchandises at Costco are not cheap, then you are in the second league after her. My family don’t use the Costco executive card to get the 2% savings, because we cannot justify 2% with our low …
The credit card issuers got more competitive again since the last time I shopped around. Because the average cost for Visa/Mastercard transactions is about 1.7%, and can be almost 3% for small merchants, I always thought that getting mostly 1% cashback out of 1.7% total on my Citi Dividend Platinum Select Card is pretty good …
I’m not sure if supermarket business is now so tough that Vons/Pavillion/Safeway are resorting to some shady tactics. I have been running into instances where the shoppers can easily end up much bigger bill than expected: Very similar items that are not on-sale will be placed together with on-sale items. Unless you read the description …
