Credit unions are nonprofit, cooperative, member-owned banking institutions, so they’re less likely to screw you with fees and rules than the major commercial banks.
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Quicken And MS Money Are ExtortionWare
By 3.28.07
Both Quicken and MS Money sneak these “sunset” clauses in their end user license agreements, giving them carte blanche to completely disable major parts of their functionality if they feel like it. These features include online bill pay, downloading any financial information, portfolio tracking, and more. Basically, all the cool stuff.
8 Free Personal Finance Management Programs
By 3.27.07
When we posted our scrappy guide to making your first budget, many readers chimed in with what personal finance software they enjoyed, many of them free. Here’s a roundup of the results:
Which Online High-Yield Savings Account Is Best?
By 3.23.07
There’s been a raging “online savings account” debate going on at Get Rich Slowly, resulting in a valuable discussion in the comments.
Bringing Back the Crock-Pot
By 3.9.07
If your mom cooked everything in a crock-pot and as a result the idea of slow cooked food gives you nightmares, you’re excused from this post. Go make something on your George Foreman grill.
30 Ways To Save A Dollar Day (Or More)
By 3.7.07
Frugal For Life has a new list of over 30 ways to improve your money situation by small measures, either by cutting down, saving, or finding new ways to make money.
Cingular Spends 1.8 Million Dollars A Day Upgrading The LA Area. Just The LA Area.
By 2.22.07
“The past two years were unprecedented — investing almost $1.3 billion to deliver a quality wireless experience to our customers here,” said Andy Shibley, vice president and general manager for the company’s Greater LA market. “Our wireless network is world class and second to none. The major expansion we completed was an extraordinary achievement that enables us to provide exceptional service for our customers today and into the future.”
According to the press release they’ve concentrated their efforts, in part, on Pismo Beach, which we remember from a Bugs Bunny cartoon. Now Bugs can talk on his cell phone if he forgets to take a left at Albuquerque. —MEGHANN MARCO
Target Worker: You Can't Pay With Change
By 2.15.07
According to one Target employee, Target doesn’t accept “just change.” You must have bills, or you do not get your stuff. Reader Mike went to Target with a bunch of change in his pocket. He didn’t feel like using an ATM, and the item he was at Target to purchase cost less than 5 dollars, so he figured he would pay with change. He figured wrong.
Track Finances With Buxfer
By 2.14.07
Much like previously-mentioned BillMonk and iOWEYOU, Buxfer can track who owes what part of the joint gift, rent or dinner bill for a group. Like Wesabe, it also tracks personal transactions with tags. Two nice bits at Buxfer I liked immediately: the ability to sign in using an existing Google, Yahoo or Facebook account (it doesn’t force you to create yet another login!) and the ability to SMS transactions to your account (like Adam’s BudgetBot.) Buxfer is definitely worth a look for folks looking to track their money more closely.
Let us know what you think of apps like this in the comments. Are they useful? Should we pay more attention to them? —MEGHANN MARCO
House Burglar's Advice For Hiding Money
By 2.7.07
A former burglar chatted with the Personal Finance Advice blog and gave some good tips on how to hide your money at home.
The Myth Of The Rational Borrower
By 1.25.07
The academics behind the Credit Slips blog chew economic macrodata t to consider whether…
Are You A Pricehacker?
By 1.25.07
Remember those price code hack posts we wrote earlier this month? MONEY magazine is working on a feature about ’em.
Save Small, Save Often
By 1.22.07
Ramit drew up a clever graph to explain why you can’t keep your long-term savings goals.
Yahoo’s New Personal Finance Site
By 1.19.07
Yahoo launched a new personal finance today site to help you manage your money.
Lazy Winter Energy Saving Tips
By 1.16.07
You could install aerators, ask your utility company to lock in a year round rate, or replace your furnace filters every month, but that could take a lot of work.
An Argument For Index Funds
By 1.15.07
FreeMoneyFinance has a nice piece on why he invests mainly in index funds.
