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Sep 18 2007, 12:25 PM
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Donna Freedman
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Something for nothing? Sign me up!
Sign up a whole bunch of us, apparently. Readers of the Smart Spending message board recently revealed the best ways to troll the Internet for freebies. Seems their mailboxes spill like busted piñatas with toys, gift cards, sample toiletries, OTC meds, T-shirts, magazines – and even cold, hard cash.
And then there are those freebie endorphins.
"I just like the idea of getting stuff for free," said Karen, a Pacific Northwest reader, who got "a nice Adidas tote bag" from My Coke Rewards.
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Sep 24 2007, 09:52 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
A clever entrepreneur explains how she's used Amazon to declutter her music collection and turn a profit. She's cleared 160 bucks in two months with surprisingly little effort.
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Sep 25 2007, 09:17 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from partner blog Wise Bread. I’d like to start this article by pointing out that PayPal is a fabulous resource and I use it often. I feel safe buying items, especially items on eBay, with my PayPal account. But over the past few months I’ve noticed that more and more places accept PayPal and I began to wonder: Is this going to create a generation of impulse buyers? PayPal was founded in December of 1998. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 and quickly became a phenomenon. Now, with more than 31 million accounts and growing, it’s a quick, easy way to pay for anything from cheap novelties to new cars. Initial impulse But is it too easy?
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Sep 27 2007, 11:21 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
You may not need to pay full price when you're shopping on the Internet. A Web site offers thousands of coupon codes for all sorts of items you can buy online. You simply find the code for the item you're purchasing, go to the merchant's site and type in the code. Users of the site can rate the success of each code.
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Posted
Oct 02 2007, 07:46 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
The top 20 blogs for finding freebies online are compiled by The Frugal Panda , offering "anything from clothes to pet food." Panda also lists other sites providing free job-hunting advice, music, games, recipes and more.
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Oct 08 2007, 07:08 AM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Did you know that thrift shops have sales? FrugalJourney offers some great tips for getting the best bargains when you're clothes shopping. Don't window-shop. Avoid department stores, even the discount kind. You can do better on eBay . Never buy clothes you have to dry clean. And here's our personal favorite: "If you lose weight, don’t discard your old clothing. You may not want to believe it, but there is a good chance you may be needing it again one day."
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Oct 11 2007, 03:09 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Timing is everything, and that's particularly true with a seven-day auction on eBay , writes guest blogger Mike Panic at Get Rich Slowly . His insightful tips about maximizing profits start with "list the item on Sunday" to get the most exposure. He continues on with detailed instructions that only an experienced seller could provide, such as how to write the best title, description and disclaimer, and which add-ons are worth the money. One point he emphasizes throughout: Be honest. If the clothes you're selling aren't from a pet-free, smoke-free home, don't say they are.
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Oct 12 2007, 10:04 AM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from partner blog The Simple Dollar . It's part of The One-Hour Project , in which you can spend just one hour to put your finances in a better place without a big lifestyle change -- through frugality and other financial choices. Regardless of whether you include individual stocks as part of your investment plan, having a general idea of how a stock works can be an incredibly valuable piece of knowledge. Even for those who only invest via a retirement plan, that retirement plan is usually a collection of stocks. So knowing how stocks work can help teach you how your retirement plan works -- and it might give you insights on how to invest your money more effectively. What can be gained from this? First, you’ll get in touch with your risk tolerance. Most stocks, over the course of a small period, stagger up and down a little, and possibly see a big lurch. If you imagine that you have some significant money in a stock, the sight of it going up and down day after day will probably
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Oct 12 2007, 03:11 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Health insurance that won't break the bank can be found if you know where to look . Gather Little by Little offers tips for tracking it down and making sure you're picking a good company. A good place to start in online . We heartily concur with his question: How can you afford not to get health insurance ?
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Oct 19 2007, 03:19 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
The Internet provides numerous ways to get free books (usually for the cost of shipping), but the most unusual is BookCrossing . We learned about this site in an invaluable post by The Bargainist about online book exchanges. BookCrossing members leave books "in the wild" in hopes that other avid readers will pick them up and, hopefully, notify the site. A worldwide map gives updates on their "catch" and "release." You can find out about books "in the wild" in your town. (For instance, 44 books are ready to be picked up in Forsyth, Mont. Twenty-three books were set free in Glasgow, Ky., in the last three days.) The Bargainist also describes how to use BookMooch , Paperback Swap , Readers United and other free or cheap online book sources.
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