Mighty Bargain Hunter

Link roundup: Nine days left edition

December 17th, 2008 | by mbhunter |

Time goes by so quickly.  Only nine days left until Christmas.  Thankfully I have most of my shopping done.

** This coupon has expired, but check my coupon code page to see if there’s a fresh one! **

If you have friends that live in metropolitan areas with plenty of restaurants, then a nice gift might be a Dinner of the Month club from Restaurant.com.  You can use the coupon code SANTA through December 21st, 2008, to get 80% off the regular Restaurant.com dining certificates and the Dinner of the Month Club.  This discount makes the 12-month Dinner of the Month Club only $24 (normally $120) and you get twelve $25 dining vouchers plus one $50 voucher for this price!  That’s $350 in qualifying dining purchases at thousands of restaurants for only $24, which is less than the amount that one can save on just one certificate!  So head over to Restaurant.com, check to see that there are lots of good restaurants to choose from in your area, and remember to use coupon code SANTA.

Here are some links of interest from around the personal finance blogosphere:

• Smart Spending asks whether Netflix is frugal or not.  (It’s a cheap alternative to going out to the theater.)
• Five Cent Nickel talks on the recession.
• Being Frugal serves up a few frugal gift ideas.
• Gather Little By Little enlightens us on the stress of two mortgages.  (He also hosted this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction.)
• The Simple Dollar gives ten tips on cutting down the hidden costs of after-school activities.
• Tough Money Love thinks it’s supremely inappropriate to push credit cards on teens as part of financial education.
• Cash Money Life has two financial goals: less debt, and more income.  (That’s the way to do it!)
• Wisdom Journal outlines the seven components of an integrity bailout.
• Dollar Wise notices that people are scaling back this Christmas.
• Bible Money Matters has a great list of fifty frugal gift ideas.
• Blunt Money likes a different magic word.
• Christian Personal Finance advocates trusting God in a recession.  (Oh, if only I would do that more.)
• Get Rich Slowly has 18 tips for buying used clothes.
• No Credit Needed is thinking about his 2009 financial goals.
• Last, but certainly not least, Free Money Finance has good thoughts on tithing.

Some recent blog carnival activity:

• The Frugal Duchess included my good-value-gifts post as an Editor’s Pick in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.
• Free From Broke included my bailouts-hurt-us-all post as an Editor’s Pick in last week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.
• Naturally Frugal included my frugal-holiday-tips post in this week’s Festival of Frugality.
• Greener Pastures included my frugal-movie-tips post in last week’s Festival of Frugality.

One last tidbit:  New ING $25 Bonus links are up!

Questions tagged credit-card at Cash Commons:

• Has anyone used Lexington Law to repair your credit?
• What's the distinction between credit card companies and credit card issuers?
• Emergency Fund in place; Now I'm tempted to save. Should I?