From the monthly archives:

May 2010

Build your Home of the Future with a Home Energy Management System

May 28, 2010

If you want to save on utility bills, a home energy management system could be a smart investment that can also satisfy your craving for high-tech toys. Home energy management devices deliver savings (and a greener home) by improving home energy efficiency. Not quite ready for prime time, these systems are expected to reach the [...]

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Enter to Win a Free Copy of You Need a Budget (YNAB)

May 27, 2010
YNAB Giveaway

That’s right ladies and gentlemen you too could win your own personal copy of You Need a Budget absolutely free no strings attached. Okay maybe one string, you need to join the other FiscalGeek Personal Finance Freedom Fighters and sign up for our mail list. You’ll find a form at the bottom of the post. [...]

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Is Your Car Ruining Your Budget?

May 26, 2010
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In the never-ending pursuit of saving money we search out every nook in our lives trying to find hidden and unnecessary expenses we can either cut or eliminate. But try as we might to find small reductions in a whole bunch of places, eventually we bump up against the wall of our fixed expenses—the truly [...]

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You Need a Budget (YNAB) for the iPhone Review

May 19, 2010
YNAB iPhone App Review

Well it was just announced that the You Need a Budget (YNAB) iPhone app was published so I just had to try it. Note: if you do not run the YNAB desktop software this will be useless to you so don’t waste your money, unless of course you are going to pickup the full version [...]

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How to Save on Home Maintenance with Simple Do-It-Yourself

May 19, 2010
Easy DIY

A stunning and almost unnoticed development has come about in the past few years: middle class homeowners are paying other people to cut their lawns, maintain their properties and clean their homes. Not a whole bunch of years ago, only rich people hired outside services to maintain their homes. I’m not certain how or why [...]

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Exchanging Extra Pounds for Dollars

May 17, 2010
The After Shot, Before.

That’s the plan anyways. Today I’m embarking on a weight loss challenge with some of my fellow blogging buddies. We’ve enrolled in “the matchup” at healthywage. The grand prize is $10,000 to the team that loses the greatest percentage of weight starting today and ending on August 15th. Our team is the Beefcake Bloggers and [...]

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Does Money Buy Happiness?

May 11, 2010
Sponge Bob

Ask that question of anyone and the most common answer will be an emphatic “NO!”. But as actions speak louder than words, our behavior often tells a different story. Look at the news headlines and the content of so many “how to” books, magazines, TV programs and articles; they deal with every imaginable nuance of [...]

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Your Mom Called, Here’s What She Wants for Mother’s Day

May 4, 2010
Mom

I started an experiment and thought I would have my wife poll her Facebook friends to find out what the discerning Mom’s out there really want for Mother’s day. I thought I’d compile a nice list of items at Amazon and I’d be done. In some respects I supposed I already knew the answer but [...]

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Are You a Gadget Hound?

May 3, 2010
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“Gadget Expense”—necessity, form of entertainment or addiction? Have you ever known anyone who has a gadget addiction? You know the kind of person who has to have every new gadget that comes out on the market? Eventually, maybe most people will have the majority of the gadgets he’ll buy, but he’s usually the first one [...]

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