Picking Up Discounts in the Produce Section: the Benefits of Grocery and Pharmacy Cards

Sign up for the free loyalty cards from your local grocery stores and pharmacies if they offer them.  They cost you nothing (I don’t even get junk mail from them!) and give you exclusive discounts and/or cash back.  Those offers marked by signs hanging under products throughout the store (clearance items, discounts, two-for-one deals, BOGOs, [...]

Get the Check and 5% Back

If you have a Discover More card, make sure to sign up for the 5% Cashback Bonus on restaurants going on throughout June.  Discover had a similar bonus event in March (offering 2% cashback), but this time around I did not receive any notifications in the mail or through e-mail and found out only when [...]

Discouraged by student loan payments? Rent’s too high? How about taking a trip to the Caribbean?

There is no reason for not having a frequent flier account and accumulating miles for practically every trip you take.  Frequent flier accounts cost absolutely nothing and may eventually earn you a free trip, even if it takes you a few years. Airlines offer frequent flier programs with the idea that they can keep you [...]

Hands Off the Retirement Fund

Our blog hasn’t talked about retirement yet, but expect several posts on it soon enough. For now, let me start with a short introduction, particularly useful for those of you who are interested in setting up a retirment account but do not know where to start (or even what all the codes mean) and those who might already [...]

How to Earn a 50,000% Return

As I was deciding which law school to attend last month, I did something I never thought of doing when I was applying for college – I negotiated my financial aid package. My second choice school had offered me $10,000 more in scholarship, so with two weeks before the first deposit deadline, I wrote the [...]

Update on the Credit Card Legislation: Paying in Full Does Not Make You a Free Rider; It Makes You Profitable

Last Thursday we wrote about two possible and essentially opposing ways that credit card companies could respond to the new legislation and affect users who always pay their monthly credit card bills in full and on time: increasing annual fees and limiting rewards programs or buffing up rewards programs to encourage those consumers to use [...]

A Getaway for the Price of a Commute

The long weekend kicks off at 5 PM today or earlier for those of you who are trying to beat traffic as you make it to your travel destinaton.  If you are one of the thousands of people trying to move through the NY-DC corridor, you must’ve come across various options – the train, the [...]

Use the Grace You’ve Got

So you’ve just graduated and the last thing you want to hear about is the debt you’ve accumulated over the last 4 years.  Luckily for you, you likely won’t have to deal with your federal student loans for at least another 5 months or so.  Stafford Loans – subsidized or unsubsidized – give you a [...]

New Legislation That Will Affect Your Wallet

I’ll be honest. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the new credit card legislation. I figured it wouldn’t actually affect me that much, since I always pay my credit card bill on time and in full (which everyone should do in the first place as paying 18% interest on credit card debt really is [...]

Get More Greens When You Eat Out

Tuesday night is our dining out night. While eating out does not have to be a weekly event for you, if you are going to pick a day, Tuesday should be the day. Fresh fish usually comes in on Tuesdays and Fridays, and a new batch of prepared food is typically made on Tuesdays (see [...]