I finally got a chance to bring over my links for steals and deals to this site. You’ll find them on the sidebar. If you have any sites you’d like for me to add, feel free to drop me a line.
Tickled by Life – Life Enhancement
I was having a really difficult at work this week. 😦 and I needed something to cheer me up.
I came across the site Tickled by Life and before I could finish reading one article, I realized that this Blog was a keeper and wanted to share with my readers.
I especiallly enjoyed the article What goes around Comes around..
Enjoy!
Thrifty Fun – Fun, advice and blogs
This entry comes as a courtesy of my Sis-In-Law (RM). Good work RM. Bet you never thought you’d be published at Dad’s Taxi! 🙂
Thrifty Fun is a pretty cool site which has some really nice featured articles and newsletters which you can subscribe to. The site is family oriented, so it seems to be a pretty good place for information and tips! Most of the focus of this site is related to the home and tips on how to solve household problems. Found that to be pretty useful.
It’s here that I found another link to an interesting My Frugal Life Blog site.The site offers some excellent advice, free newsletters, tips and so much more. You can browse the various topics and much more.
What I liked best was the disclaimer for the site. Now I gotta figure out how to do the same for Dad’s Taxi.
Take a look along the bottom of the page and you’ll find some interesting sites for budgeting, savings advice, couponing, ezines (newsletters), etc..
Overall, the site is really nice and deserves a detailed look.. enjoy..
PS. Thanks RM.
CELL PHONE DO NOT CALL REGISTRY
Mea Culpa. After I posted this entry, I realized that I had fallen into one of the olders email hoaxes that has been on the Internet.
A good friend of mine directed me to the Urban Legends site which discusses the below.
There is no deadline. Below is the excerpt which makes this entry moot. Again I don’t normally post this kind of information without verifying, but in this case, I did.
Comments: Yes, you can add your cell phone number(s) to the National Do Not Call Registry.
But no, you won’t suddenly be at the mercy of 10,000 telemarketers if you don’t.
While it’s true that several of the major wireless phone providers announced a plan some years ago to establish a 411 directory of customers’ cell phone numbers, it is not true that the plan involved publishing said directory for any and all to read. Participating companies said the numbers would be made available only via telephone, only to users who dialed directory assistance and paid a fee, and only with customer consent.
In any case, the point has been moot since 2006, when the plan to create a 411 directory for cell phone numbers was indefinitely postponed.
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Notice: Cell Phone Numbers Go Public next month.
Starting February 2009, Cell phone numbers will go public.
If you want to avoid telemarketing or sales calls, follow the process below, and it should put your cell phone on the DO NOT CALL LIST put into place by the Federal Trade Commission.
This is the National Do Not Call Registry sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission. You may also register your home phone number on this number too but it is essential to register your cell phone because all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sales calls.
…. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS MADE TO YOUR CELL PHONE.
To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.
Important thing here is that you MUST call from the number you are registering. According to the site:
Your registration will not expire. Telephone numbers placed on the National Do Not Call Registry will remain on it permanently due to the Do-Not-Call Improvement Act of 2007, which became law in February 2008. Read more about it at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/04/dncfyi.shtm.
It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years. You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked. You cannot call from a different phone number.
HELP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
If after you do this and you continue to get those annoying sales calls on your cell, you can always call to the National Do Not Call Registry to initiate a complaint against the cell phone spammer!
The National Do Not Call Registry Serves multiple purposes:
- Register multiple phone numbers to be put on the DO NOT CALL List with the FTC
- Verify that your number is on the DO NOT CALL list (via email)
- Initiate complaints against the organizations that continue to call you when you are on the DO NOT CALL List.
Thanks to my tennis buddy Drew for enlightening me with this tidbit..
Of course if you like sales calls interrupting your privacy, you can ignore… 🙂
iPhone Blogging
So now I can update using the WordPress Application for My favorite toy — iPhone. Awesome’
Clark Howard Highlights – Tips for your Financia Life
A few weeks ago I talked about Clark Howard. He’s the guy who has is an a excellent advocate for consumers. His tips and tricks give you excellent ideas on saving money in your every day financial transactions.
Today, I came across the CNN site with videos by Clark on his weekly TV Show.
As I’ve said before, what I like about Clark Howard’s information is that it’s very useful in everyday life. Take a look.
mashable – All Web news
I was bored and cruising (yes everyone knows how easily I get distracted/bored) and came across the mashable site.
This site provides an excellent summarized summary of NEW things happening. I could just waste hours and hours of time on the popular category of Facebook, Firefox, Google and my fav iPhone.
What I liked about the site, is that you can leave comments on any of the stories that are published here.
I like the clean structure and the a could look at the popular categories. I’ll give you one guess which one I gravitated to. the iPhone area.
What I liked even more of this site is the Jobs section.
- Here you can see job postings (besides your Monster, and careerbuilder). The interface was clean. I just selected the state I was looking for a job in and voila, I saw the jobs in a simple list.
- Updated 11/15/18: without doubt the best aggregator site today is Indeed. This site puts together jobs from multiple sites for a one stop job search
Take a look at mashable , I added the daily feed to my Yahoo, of course this site allows you to add subscribe to this site. I give this site 4+ stars.
One of my next blog entries is going to be dedicated to how to network in this crummy (yes that’s a technical term) economy and the inside tricks to finding jobs others won’t find.. Stay tuned for that.
Mortgage Refinance
I’m in the market to refinance my huge mortgage. I hear that rates are down, so what do I do? I first went to my favorite consumer advocates site Clark Howard and researched there first.
First bit of advice:
- Create a disposable email address. Most of the free email services allow you to do that, as the mortgage search process, will generate much SPAM in your inbox.
- Get your Credit Report (Free).
- Document and research!
According to Clark, the two sites you should look at:
- The Mortgage Professor – New site to me. Really educated me on tips on how to refinance. A must read for everyone that is doing a refi or purchase of real estate.
- HSH Associates –
- Lending Tree – Go to this site and get up to 10 offers. I recommend you create a disposable email address, because I guarantee you will be bombarded with Spam emails once you provide your information.
I absolutely recommend that before you start your refinance process, you find out your FICO and credit score. The higher your score, the better the rate you will get.
You must get your free anual credit report BEFORE you start your refi or purchase process. You’ll see other sites in commercials, but in my opinion, this is the only legitimate site (without you having to purchase anything!) for getting your latest credit history.
Tomorrow, I start my refi process.
Bargainist and other sites – Deals and Coupons
As the resident cheapskate in my family, I’m always looking for the next great deal!
I haven’t had a chance to look at sites besides my normal haunts for deals, but today I found some that warrant your look and see. Each of the sites below offer RSS feeds that enable you to get daily deal feeds via your Yahoo or iGoogle home pages. Of course each of the sites provide you with printable and on-line coupon codes so you can continue to load up your home with techie items that you absolutely, positively, think you need..
Bargainist is a site that not only shows you deals, coupons, and freebies, it also gives some good advice on how to save money. This is what differentiates this site from other sites that I’ve mentioned in previous posts.
My other favorite is slickdeals. For the ease of use, this site continues to be my fav.
I’ve mentioned the sites below in prior posts, but I’m re-listing in summary form below. The sites below are ones in which I get daily feeds on my customized Yahoo and Google page respectively:
There are of course many other sites for coupons and shopping, but any one of the above can do some serious damage to your credit card. I’ve decided that my mantra continues to be:
“If it’s not a deal, I’m not buying!”… 🙂 I have a tendency to by technology stuff that I’ll never use.
If you know of other sites that readers might like, feel free to leave me a comment.
iPhone free apps
I was reading PC World business center this morning and I noticed this site that I
wanted to share. While you are here, read the great article on PC World’s favorite iPhone apps that might be of interest to you. This is a must read, before you proceed.
This site pointed me to appstoreapps lists the 40 applications that have gone
from paid applications to free applications. Of course as the saying goes, buyer beware. You should read about any application you install on your iPhone.
The Site:
http://www.appstoreapps.com
The site above gives very good descriptives of the applications which are now Free.
Of course everyone knows of this site where it lists the top 50 free
iPhone apps: http://www.appstoreapps.com/top-100-free-app-store-apps/
The link above looks for the installation of iTunes on your machine..
One heads up that I want to give is that always look at all emails from the iTunes site where it concerns “Free” applications that you have purchased. I got burnt last month when I was charged $5.30 for an application that I did not download.
So when you are bundled in during the winter, let the iPhone entertain and stimulate you..
If you have a favorite iPhone site, feel free to respond to this post. TTYL
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