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4 Free and Unlimited Online Invoicing Tools

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 tired [...]

Renting Our Home (Part I) – Initial Decisions

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 Midwest [...]

The Fall of Chase Freedom – Continued Commentary

If you have a Chase Freedom card, you have likely received a letter from them touting some upcoming improvements to your account. I received my letter a little over a week ago, and I giddily responded here.

The main highlights are that Chase is tossing aside the 3% cashback scheme for set categories (such as groceries and [...]

Dr. B.

Just for the record, I defended my doctoral dissertation today! I guess that means Mr. B is now Dr. B? Sounds strange….

Don’t worry, I’m not so pompous as to actually change my name on this blog to “Dr. B.” After all, a very wise man once told me: When you get your Bachelor’s degree, you think [...]

Chase Freedom Card Turns into Discover

Update: read some continued commentary on this topic here.

Since 2007 the Chase Freedom card has been one of my most oft-used credit cards. I like it because it gives me 3% cashback at grocery stores, gas stations, and quick service restaurants, like fast food, pizza places, and coffee houses. It was even part of my [...]

The WORST Online Savings/Money Market Account?

What’s the worst online savings or money market account that you can think of? Chase/WaMu? No. E*Trade? Goodness, no. How about OnBank? No, but their current rate (0.50%) does totally suck.

Of course, there’s more than one way to evaluate the worthiness of a bank. Specifically, features, rates, and customer service are the main factors up for [...]

E*Trade Drops Savings Rate – I Drop E*Trade

(Rates may be out of date. Please see the Savings Rate Wiki for the latest rates)

I regret to report that E*Trade just lowered the rate on their Complete Savings account to a miserly 1.20% APY. This is disappointing to me because I have the bulk of my emergency fund there. While their savings rate was never [...]