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8 IKEA Shopping Tips From A Former Employee
By 7.6.07
A former IKEA worker tells us how some tips for making your jaunt through furniture Legoland more enjoyable and efficient.
12 Steps For Digging Yourself Out Of Debt
By 7.3.07
If you’re in debt and you don’t want to be, (and who wants to be?) you might want to take a look at Zen Habits 12-Step Get Out of Debt Program.
How To Get Bumped By An Airline For Fun And Profit
By 7.2.07
An editor over at Jaunted has perfected a strategy for hassel-free airline bumping. We all know that we can grab some pretty nice rewards if we give up our seat on an overbooked airplane, but we’re never in a position to do so.
Consumerist's 10 Commandments of Credit
By 6.30.07
Keeping a balance on a credit card is a sin in the eyes of the Consumerist. If you have a balance, make it your priority to pay it off as quickly as possible.
Watch Out! It's Hot!
By 6.26.07
As you can see by some of the temperatures out there, it’s mighty hot in some places where it isn’t always hot. So, to keep senior citizens like Brett Favre from getting ill up there in 90 degree Green Bay, WI, here are some tips on staying healthy in the heat from the CDC.
How To Remove Watermarks From Wood
By 6.21.07
Place a cotton cloth directly over the stain and with a dry iron (NO STEAM!) press down for several seconds on the cloth. Remove and check the stain. Keep doing until the watermarks are completely gone. It could take a minute or two to get the stain out completely.
Yes! We are going to try this. Wish us luck.—MEGHANN MARCO
Don't Finance Your Car With Your Home Equity Loan
By 6.15.07
Maryland consumer attorney Sonya Smith-Valentine warns not to use a home equity loan to purchase a car. Her reasoning makes sense. When you use a home equity loan, you pay for the for many years longer than you would with a regular car loan, multiplying the interest you end up paying.
8 Tips From A Moving Company
By 6.12.07
Here’s 8 tips to help make your next move smoother, and help nip customer/company disputes in the bud, provided by Tiffany of ASAP Van Lines:
How To Unshrink Wool
By 6.11.07
It’s actually very easy to unshrink a wool garment you shrank in the wash.
Identity Theft: You Can't Really Do Much About It (But Here's What You Can Do)
By 6.8.07
You can’t really stop identity theft from happening. So many entities have your credit card numbers, social security numbers, date of birth, and address, that it is more or less inevitable that we will all have our identities stolen at some point. If you are lucky, you will just get a credit card cloned. If you aren’t so lucky–like many people I see in my line of work–someone will start opening accounts, buying houses, or doing other nasty things in your name.
FedEx House Arrest!
By 6.5.07
A heated discussion about FedEx is going on over at one of the Washington Post’s blogs, with people purporting to be FedEx employees leaving tips for consumers who are “stuck in FedEx house arrest.” Are they real? Who knows, but they do sound pretty accurate.
Six Tips To Cool Your Energy Bill
By 6.2.07
FreeMoneyFinance has six tips to keep your energy bill from overheating this summer:
How To: Avoid Pesky Phone Survey People
By 5.23.07
F.M.I. (Former Meal Interrupter) used to work at one of “the largest phone survey companies in the country,” and would like to share with our readers the best technique for assuring that the survey people will stop calling you. Asking them to stop calling doesn’t cut it. Saying “no” just gets you listed as a “soft refusal” and will result in more call backs.
Farecast Can Save You $50
By 5.16.07
Our favorite airfare-watching site Farecast is finally out of beta and its predictions/recommendations have been certified by an independent firm as being around 74.5% accurate, which is much better than our previous method of just guessing.
Confirmation: GrandCentral + TMobile = Cheap Incoming Phone Calls
By 5.9.07
You can get cheap calls on your T-mobile plan by hooking it up with Grand Central, reader Noah’s T-mobile bill confirms.
