Archive for August, 2009

News flash: Dave Ramsey’s stock market defies the law of gravity!

Sunday, August 30th, 2009

Over at the MBN Forums there was some discussion about a short video presentation called Drive Free, Retire Rich over at Dave Ramsey's website. The first part of the presentation (up through Slide 11) was very well put together, and showed perfectly the value of buying used over borrowing and buying ...

Bargain hunting miles and points with credit cards

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

(This is a guest post from Mr Credit Card of Ask Mr. Credit Card.  If you like his style, you can subscribe to his feed.) Firstly, I would like to thank John for the opportunity to guest post here and also for giving me the opportunity to host the Carnival of ...

Don’t get all wrapped up about the state Cash for Clunkers tax right now

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Bargaineering addressed some tax consequences of the CARS ("Cash for Clunkers") rebate program for Maryland. Virginia's sales tax consequences are similar to Maryland's:  Sales tax is assessed on the full price, not the price after being reduced by the voucher.  In this way it's similar to the way grocery store coupons ...

Swoopo get more legit … sort of

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

Saw some recent retweets of my post on why you should stay far, far, far away from Swoopo (thanks to @SFBoater and @BidzillaDOTcom) and it reminded me of an important change that Swoopo had made recently. A quick recap of the characteristics that made Swoopo (before the change, anyway) little more ...