John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Dec 3, 2009, 2:35 am
As you may be aware (or not!) the FTC has revised its guide concerning the use of endorsements and testimonials in advertising to include social media, which include blogs like the very one you’...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Dec 1, 2009, 12:48 pm
Now that it’s officially official that we’re into the official holiday shopping season, Mr. Rebates has increased its rebate percentages on 300 stores.  Using this and other rebate sites ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 30, 2009, 11:19 pm
I found out recently that our county is going to be entering the late-20th century in an important way: We’re getting a Walmart.  This is important to us because it’s going to be built ad...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 27, 2009, 9:56 pm
Not me, by the way:  my wife has a very generous aunt who has offered to take the girls (my wife, my daughter, and my mother-in-law) on a cruise in warm waters.  So I get to hold down the fort and f...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 27, 2009, 2:27 am
I do software development at work.  A term that gets thrown around a bit is code smell.  It’s a catch-all for any number of programming practices that indicate more serious underlying problems...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 24, 2009, 1:44 am
A few weeks ago I met “J” of BudgetsAreSexy.com, and Nicole of Breaking Even Communications, up in DC.  It was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, and in the process I really got a f...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 23, 2009, 2:03 am
Welcome to the Carnival of Money Stories. Among this week’s posts I’ve included great money questions asked over at Cash Commons.  Enjoy! Business Free Money Finance talks about taking...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 20, 2009, 11:50 pm
Can you feel the excitement??? All of that black ink just waiting to be put on the ledgers?? Nah, I can’t either. Here are some interesting links from my feed reader: The Simple Dollar disc...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 18, 2009, 2:07 am
... , Toys “R” Us, and Target have already had their Black Friday ads “leaked.”   I can’t really ... completely planned: orchestrated to create buzz. Black Frida...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 16, 2009, 1:44 am
Howdy!  Here are the on-topic submissions for this week’s carnival: Bargaineering hosts a guest post on how to sue debt collectors. The Smarter Wallet shares some first-hand experience with de...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 14, 2009, 12:42 am
It’s no secret that there are federal tax credits available for many people who are looking to buy a home.  Both first-time and non-first-time homebuyers now can play the game. The people who ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 13, 2009, 9:56 pm
Happy Friday the 13th. Check out these lucky links from my reader: Five Cent Nickel has a guest post from Money Help for Christians with several good tips on how to find a good deal. Digerati Life r...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 11, 2009, 1:00 am
(If you have a true love, then you have thirty of them from last Christmas! Most people really only need twenty-nine French hens.) Regifting this year is up.  Way up. A Consumer Reports survey found...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 6, 2009, 9:58 pm
My wife got Wii Fit Plus earlier this week and it makes you think on some of the games.  Nice build-on to Wii Fit.  Besides, what other game can I flap my arms and fly around in a giant bird suit? ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 5, 2009, 9:58 pm
This article on MSN Money misses a bit in the title: Banks punish perfect customers The article is another one on how credit card companies are hitting otherwise conscientious users with annual fees...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Nov 2, 2009, 12:46 am
Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction! I’m very pleased that more of the submissions are on-topic. This is a very good thing, and I know it will benefit everyone concerned, fr...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 30, 2009, 10:27 pm
Here are some posts of interest from my feed reader: Generation X Finance shows how to get your cheap books and movies. Free Money Finance tells us what not to aspire to:  being at the bottom of the...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 30, 2009, 12:49 am
I requested a review copy of Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel, and the first time the book was sent out, somehow it got lost in the mail.  The publicist contacted me to ask if I was going to review it, ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 29, 2009, 12:26 am
I got suckered into reading this article on MSN from the title: A $10,000 Social Security hit There was a stock photo of two obviously very depressed seniors right next to that headline.  At first ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 28, 2009, 1:49 am
This economic downturn hasn’t been kind to a lot of people.  Jobs that haven’t been taken away from people have had their hours cut, their workload increased, or their cost of living allo...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 25, 2009, 2:59 pm
On last week’s post on whether you should be able to put your tithe on a credit card, I received a well thought-out response from commenter Brian.  I’ll reprint it here, and discuss it. ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 24, 2009, 12:57 pm
Getting a bolstered emergency fund is a great idea now.  (It usually is, but now especially.)  One way to get to a decent cushion is to spend less so that the extra can go into savings. Many kinds ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 23, 2009, 9:48 pm
We’re ditching our wall-to-wall carpet in much of our house in favor of some laminate flooring.  Our dogs don’t quite know what to do with the new hard surfaces. Anyway, some links of in...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 23, 2009, 1:45 am
Managing a checking account isn’t rocket science but it’s not basket weaving either.  (No offense meant to basket-weavers.  I tried to weave a basket in eighth grade art class and it end...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 20, 2009, 11:50 pm
Caught this in a tweet from Wise Bread: Latest bank fee is for paying off credit card on time every month The target of new fees for credit card issuers is people who haven’t paid them yet, am...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 19, 2009, 5:37 pm
Sun’s Financial Diary reported that the 2010 contribution limit for 401(k) accounts will remain at $16,500.  The announcement came from the IRS Thursday.  There had been speculation that the c...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 18, 2009, 11:58 am
At lunch yesterday I saw this:  Now even God takes credit cards!  The article lists a number of new (or relatively new) places that have come to accept plastic for payment, and number 2 on the list ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 16, 2009, 10:52 pm
Here are some posts this week that made my happy day: Free Money Finance asks if you missed the ride up.  (Yes I did, but I also missed part of the ride down that immediately preceded it.) Get Rich ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 13, 2009, 11:31 pm
No Credit Needed is taking his oldest daughter (ten years old) to open her first savings account.  He and his family have been free of consumer debt for over three and a half years now and this is a ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 12, 2009, 10:37 am
Happy Columbus Day, everyone!  Here are the articles for this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction.  At the top are the posts by people who discuss areas of their personal debt reduction, which i...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 9, 2009, 10:48 pm
A few weeks ago, the Recaptcha at one site I visited was “Fiscals Friday.”  So, I switched the order of the words, and there you are. Here are a few links of interest for your viewing ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 8, 2009, 4:19 pm
In my last post announcing an 80% Off Restaurant.com coupon, I decided to highlight some things to bear in mind before buying a dining certificate package.  Jeff Conlin from Restaurant.com responded ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 8, 2009, 7:09 am
First off, a big thank-you to beta testers Flexo, SuburbanDollar, J from Budgets are Sexy, The Frugal Lawyer, and a number of others who expressed interest. Now that the hosting platform is in open b...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 7, 2009, 6:40 pm
Computer problems can range from being almost unnoticeable, to mildly annoying, to frustrating, to downright costly if it’s a necessary component of your business.  Regardless of whether your c...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 6, 2009, 10:55 pm
In better times, a yard sale is a good way to clear the junk out of the closets and make a little bit of extra money.  And what doesn’t sell will find a good hope at the Salvation Army thrift s...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 5, 2009, 11:11 pm
Liz Pulliam Weston had an article today on the new tip-jar economy — that new business practice of putting out the tip jar, raising the “customary” tipping percentage, and adding oth...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Oct 4, 2009, 2:37 am
While my wife was at a quilt guild meeting this weekend, I went around to a few places with my daughter.  We went to what will probably be the last flea market this year in our town.  (Next month mi...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 30, 2009, 1:21 am
I have a new site in the works and would love some trailblazers to come over to take it for a spin! All you need to bring with you is some questions about money.  For bonus points, you can bring som...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 29, 2009, 1:06 am
Restaurant.com is running an 80% off coupon through the end of September, 2009.  The coupon code is CHEF. I think largely that people are happy with the deals that they get through Restaurant.com. ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 28, 2009, 12:00 am
Hi everyone, and welcome to this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction. There were more good articles submitted this week than are shown below, but only a small number of them dealt directly with (...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 26, 2009, 10:49 am
Many of my colleagues have heard about the recent cease and desistery regarding the trademarking of what I thought was a fairly common term for a frugal woman which, by the way, rhymes with barista. ...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 25, 2009, 10:52 pm
We just arrived in West Virginia to visit my wife’s parents and her grandmother who’s visiting them.  We’re bringing along a three-month-old puppy that we got a few weeks ago from a...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 23, 2009, 2:40 am
Cube farms are great for overhearing little bits of random quotable goodness, like this gem from one of my (male) co-workers while he was talking on the phone with his wife (I can only assume): I lik...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 19, 2009, 10:22 pm
The author’s marketing company kindly sent me a complimentary company of Bill Schultheis’ latest reworking of his book: The New Coffeehouse Investor.  According to the “about the au...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 17, 2009, 11:46 pm
OK, so I’m reading the July, 2009, issue of U.S. News & World Report that my mother-in-law left the last time she visited, and I happen on an article called “Frugal Forever?” written...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 16, 2009, 12:55 am
Dawn over at Frugal For Life discusses some of the ethical implications of stockpiling foods.  She gets into a few rules of thumb for testing to see whether stockpiling has crossed into greed, or jus...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 11, 2009, 12:27 am
And the fifth person is really thinking hard about it.  He’ll come around eventually. No, seriously: Who doesn’t want to save money on their car insurance? I don’t know of any good...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 9, 2009, 9:14 am
It’s a first!  For 99 hours only, starting today, 9/9/09, and ending on September 13th, 2009, at 3:01 PST, Restaurant.com is offering an unprecedented 90% off its Dining Certificates and Dinner...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 9, 2009, 2:37 am
I tell you:  It just doesn’t pay to be human anymore.  Big or small. I’m well aware of how being fat costs money.  But there are now rumblings on the possibility of the following:  If...
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John W. posted an article on Mighty Bargain Hunter - Sep 8, 2009, 2:18 am
Get rid of cars that aren’t working anymore. Last week we got rid of a van that we found out would cost almost as much to fix as we had paid for it.  (No, not this one.)  The vehicle had sat ...
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