Category Archives: General

Why I’m finally riding my bike

My wife picked up a road bike a couple weekends ago. You know, the type you can lift with your pinkie. While I was jealously eyeing her new bike, she reminded me that I already have one.
When I purchase an expensive item, I find it fun (in a twisted kind of way) to calculate the [...]

Quickly search for coupons using RetailMeNot.com and Firefox

I’ve been using RetailMeNot.com a lot recently to quickly find coupons and discount codes. They have the cleanest list of coupons and are free of gimmick coupons that you find on the shady coupon sites. Plus, their peer rating system makes it trivial to see if a coupon is still alive.
One really slick way to [...]

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 [...]

Change driving habits? Call your insurance company to save money

I was on the phone with my insurance company today to make a credit card payment (yea, they don’t let me pay by cc online and I want the reward points :) ) and I happened to mention that I started working from home. My agent was able to reduce my policy by ~$175 every [...]

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 [...]