Category Archives: Finances

Financial Sites Unavailable Saturday Night

I had planned to spend a few minutes tonight rebalancing my cash accounts. Every once in a while I find that I need to review my checking and savings accounts to make sure that I’m making the best use of my cash.
Unfortunately, most financial sites are taking tonight off. All of the following institutions were [...]

How to cut down on printing and filing documents by using CutePDF

One of my goals over the last month was to stop printing so much. My file cabinet is currently overflowing and I’ve gotten tired of my “To File” piling growing and not actually getting filed.
Of course I can’t stop everyone, like my insurance company, from sending me tons of paper. BTW, why do insurance companies [...]

Making sure you receive rebates

A post over on Consumerist kicked off a firestorm of rebate debates. I fill out a lot of rebates (over the last couple months I’ve received 3 free computer cases and 2 free computer power supplies) and overall have had very little trouble with rebates. I tend to take my time filling out the forms [...]

FAFSA4caster

A new tool, FAFSA4caster will soon be available (starting April 1st, 2007) to help you sort out how much financial aid you can expect to receive when attending college. From the site, this tool lets you do a couple things:

Instantly calculates a student’s eligibility for federation student aid, including grants
Reduces the time it will take to complete [...]

I Will Teach You To Be Rich: Tax Answers Part 2

iwillteachyoutoberich.com posted Part 2 of Personalized tax answers. There are some great detailed questions there. Also, check out Part 1 if you missed it.