From Mike.com

According to CNN, the tax rebates will start coming out this Monday.  7.4 million households will get their checks by next Friday.
From the article:
The department had said last month that it would begin giving rebates on May 2.
Instead, 800,000 tax filers daily will get rebates on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. No rebates will be distributed […]

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I don’t normally write about other people’s posts, but I stumbled on one today from Plonkee Money about supercharging your debt snowball that I just had to mention, and make note of so I can do it myself.
The problem:  4 gazillion ways to do the debt snowball.  All having their benefits in one form or […]

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Liz Pulliam Weston has put up an article over at MSN calling for credit card customers to get behind an bill (HR 5244) revamping the rights and responsibilities of the credit card issuers and putting an end to excessive fees and unfair practices in the credit card industry.
Some components of this “bill of rights” for […]

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You’ve seen the commercials…
Hi, I’m Todd Davis, and 457-55-5462 is my REAL social security number…
The company is LifeLock, the product is Identity Theft Protection, and the cost is, well, outrageous.
If you’re considering buying one of their plans, either $110/yr on the annual plan, or their $10/mo plan, you might want to consider what you’re […]

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I like ringtones on my phone, I’m always creating them and transferring them over, grabbing the coolest clips from the local bands’ hottest songs. But sometimes I do want other tunes, sound clips, etc., for my ringtone, and even wallpapers. But I wasn’t paying the high monthly access charges to many of the […]

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I got a check in the mail today, thought it looked fake until I read over it… It was a $561.62 escrow refund check, and a notice that my monthly house payments were going down, too!  Heck ya!
And as everyone knows, you take a nice mini-windfall like that and go spend a little for yourself, […]

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In my small question to eliminate some unnecessary bills, I am cutting cable. As part of that, I had to move my alarm system off the cable modem to a landline, which was just installed yesterday.
So I called Brinks today to get someone out here to move the line. I knew the original […]

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