Archive for February, 2010

If your bank legitimately calls you, call them back

Friday, February 5th, 2010

I initiated a wire transfer today from an out-of-state credit union to my home credit union.  Because the amount of money was fairly significant, they called me up to verify a few things before they did the transfer. After the woman gave her name and who she worked for, she asked ...

Why yes, I DID save some money on my auto insurance!

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

We're (hopefully) in the final stretch for purchasing a new house, and part of the paperwork for this was setting up homeowner's insurance for the new house. We called the same company that sold us our current house's homeowner's policy, as well as our current auto insurance policy.  The agent was ...

Sow your wild oats at work

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Cutting costs anywhere that makes sense adds to that budgetary cushion that can be used to pay off debt, add to an emergency fund, save for college, or anything else.  One fairly easy way to do this is to reduce, or eliminate, trips to the vending machines down the hall.  ...