Use Price Comparison Sites to Get the Best Deal

By 2 Cents on January 13th, 2012 | Category: Spending | Leave a comment

The following is a guest post. I’ll have my 2012 outlook up on Monday. Have a great weekend! ~ 2 Cents

Looking for a credit card can be difficult because there are so many different types of cards that offer their holders different advantages. Some credit cards have rewards for making purchases from certain stores, but others will offer people cash back when they spend a set amount of money with their cards. Finding the one that is perfect for them has gotten easier because of the credit card comparison sites that have begun to make their way to the Internet.

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The comparison sites cater to different types of people and cards. For example, some people are looking for a card that will give them a 0 percent interest rate, and these comparison sites will have several examples of credit [...]

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Preemptive Purchases: Wasteful or Worth It?

By 2 Cents on January 22nd, 2010 | Category: Spending | 2 comments

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

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Update: This post is included in The Carnival of Personal Finance @ My Journey to Millions. Thanks Evan!

Have you ever replaced an item before it really stopped working? Recently, we bought a new washer and dryer. Our old ones were working fine, but they were over 10 years old, and we began to worry about a sudden service interruption. We do a lot more laundry at our house than we used to. Here’s a tip for those of you with really young children out there: their clothes get bigger too! This means it takes a lot fewer pairs of jeans to fill the washer.

Mr. Cents did a lot of research online and decided that the most likely future problem would be that a bearing might go on the washer. It would [...]

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