Mr. B is back! In the last few months, a lot has happened. When last I posted, I was Mr. B – homeowner, starving artist, graduate student and teaching assistant at a major university in the Midwest, doing everything I could to keep the bills paid on an embarrassingly low TA salary. When I say [...]
Chase is promoting their new Sapphire credit card by offering a sign-up bonus for it. The card comes in both a free version and an annual fee version, with a $100 and a $150 sign-up bonus respectively.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like you can get both bonuses because the offer is only good for first-time [...]
With all the talk about health care in the news lately, I thought it relevant for everyone to watch Bill Moyers’ interview with Wendell Potter, a health insurance insider and former executive for Cigna.
Seriously, everyone should watch it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least. Now I’m not surprised at all why Aetna (my health/dental insurance [...]
In thinking of ways to make updating the Savings Rate APY Wiki a little easier, I decided to give it a full facelift. Take a look!
It now has better integration with the rest of the site. Plus, it’s hosted by Google Docs, meaning that making updates is as simple as editing a spreadsheet (no more [...]
To the best of my knowledge, I’m not a pretentious jerk-wad. Nor is my ego inflated by enticements of luxury and exclusivity. I’ve never owned a “Members-only” jacket, if that means anything at all.
Imagine my surprise, then, when I received an invitation to apply for the exclusive Black Card from VISA, which (according to [...]
If you run a small business or do any freelancing, you need a convenient way to send invoices to clients. Sure, you can keep track of all customer information in a spreadsheet, but you can also use an online invoicing tool. While I don’t have hundreds of clients for my side projects, I still get [...]
Now that I have a new job, my wife and I will be moving to Texas soon. We own the house where we live now, so we had to make a decision: do we try to sell or rent our home?
Ultimately, we’re deciding to rent our current house. We live in an area of the [...]
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