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May 2008

Blog is about a month old now…

May 31, 2008

I hope that along my journey out of debt and into a positive net worth situation that I have not only helped share a bunch of free samples, tips and tricks but also some motivation. Writing this blog has helped me tremendously, it gives me an outlet for my thoughts, ideas and it keeps me [...]

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For once getting my loan statement was good news…

May 31, 2008

Well I got my monthly loan statement for this siding loan I have been working at paying off so hard. Only a month ago the balance was 7000 dollars. We had a massive garage sale, sold everything that was worth anything on ebay, worked overtime and penny pinched like crazy. It seemed like we were [...]

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How to hold a successful garage sale : part 3 : afterthoughts : what worked and what didn't

May 26, 2008

So you may be wondering if I have any tips from what helped, what didn’t and what worked and what didn’t. What worked well: -Advertising in the paper -Advertising with signage -Advertising on the radio classifieds -Writing prices clearly on posterboards for clothes and other misc items -Product placement and organization (face the products on [...]

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How to hold a successful garage sale : part 2 : Working the sales

May 26, 2008

Welp, we busted our buns and scraped together every piece of junk around the house and garage and piled it up on the back porch along with the 10,000 bags of clothes her family decided to donate to the cause… because there must be a huge market for 10,000 bags of old people clothes. They [...]

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Free top secret recipes

May 26, 2008

This is cool, they have recipes for all the cool dishes you get at all your favorite restaurants… save you some money and just make them at home. http://www.topsecretrecipes.com/home.asp

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Free 411 service, no charges or fees…

May 20, 2008

In case anyone didn’t know, google has a free 411 service. Anywhere on any phone, just call the 1800 number and it will connect you to whatever you are seeking. http://www.google.com/goog411/ Can’t beat free!

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Links to tons of FREE E-BOOKS, no joke…

May 19, 2008

My wife is a librarian and came accross a ton of free E-Book links, so I thought I would pass them on. Hope you enjoy… there is some great reading here. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page http://librarianchick.pbwiki.com/BookSearch http://librarianchick.pbwiki.com/ Enjoy!

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Opt out of catalog mailings…Cool!

May 19, 2008
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TIP…Cheap(er) sub- sandwiches…

May 18, 2008

I discovered these a couple weeks ago when my wife got some 6 foot subs for her work meeting. Walmart has sub sandwiches that are rockin. They are nothing like subway sandwiches and way cheaper . Yesterday doing our shopping I found them premade in footlong versions (more like 16″ really… I measured it). Anyway, [...]

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Mega Garage: How to hold a sucessful garage sale: Part 1: Organizing

May 17, 2008

We are in the process of planning a garage sale for next saturday. We are going to hold the mother of all garage sales if possible. In an effort to raise money for debt and clean up this crapshack in an effort to declutter. So we have been researching garage sale tips, advertising, organization, sales, [...]

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Free medicine program, worth trying out…

May 17, 2008

http://www.freemedicineprogram.org/ I am not sure what this place is about, I am going to try to get my prozac from them and see if I qualify. Check it out, can’t hurt.

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Free book and summer reading program…

May 14, 2008

Barnes and Noble are having a summer reading program where your child can get a free book. Check it out, your child just has to read 8 books (get ‘em free from the library) and write what they liked about them. Then they get a free book from B/N. http://www.barnesandnoble.com/summerreading/

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Last day for RME's free 25 dollars end 5/15

May 14, 2008

Revolution Money Exchange’s free $25 for creating an account is going to be ending May 15th so if you haven’t done it yet… DO IT SOON!This is a paypal wannabe site, set it up and grab your 25 bucks, no strings attached. Tell everyone you know, the wife and I both got it, that was [...]

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Free vision screening for infants

May 13, 2008

I know this works because we had our 10 month old son screened and checked out at the eye dr. recently. It was all free and covered by the public service, no requirements on income or anything. http://www.infantsee.org/ InfantSEE® is a public health program designed to ensure that eye and vision care becomes an integral [...]

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Make up to 100 bucks on epinions.com

May 10, 2008

Sweet deal, you get money for posting opionions on e-pinions site. I have used them before and found the reviews helpful. 10-19 reviews for $10 20-29 reviews for $20 30-39 reviews for $30 40-49 reviews for $40 50-59 reviews for $50 60-69 reviews for $60 70-79 reviews for $70 80-89 reviews for $80 90-99 reviews [...]

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w00t! Scraped up $3000 for debt payments…

May 10, 2008

Whew… after a ton of hard work selling old electronics from college on eBay, old textbooks, books, RME money and referral money we have managed to scrape up $1500 dollars extra towards debt. Plus our economic stimulus deposit came through at another $1500 buckaroos. Cut a check for $3000 for our siding loan as an [...]

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Get your FREE annual credit report, no strings attached…

May 10, 2008

Okay, I have seen a million things to get your “free” credit report, but most of them are gimmicks for some monitoring service that you can’t easily get out of. Here is where wifey and I get our free credit reports every year. It is a government initiated deal to allow everyone free access to [...]

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W00T !!! Got my stimulus money today…

May 8, 2008

We got 600 for me, 600 for wifey and 300 for “le petits enfant”. So that’s 1500 more towards the siding loan on top of the extra we put so far. Sweet. I know… don’t get me started on the politics of it. I would rather take my money the government borrowed from china and [...]

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