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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 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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Sep 27 2007, 11:31 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Those old jeans in your closet can save you money. Recycle them by dressing them up with patches or beads, or give them new life as household items or gifts. Follow the simple instructions to make potholders, lunch sacks, and beer or coffee cozies. How about Christmas stockings, kneepads for gardening, or a three-pocket electronic gadget protector?
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Oct 02 2007, 09:31 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Banks will collect a record high $4.4 billion in ATM fees this year. That's one of several findings in a new survey by Bankrate.com . Most banks now charge $2 each time a nonaccountholder uses one of their ATMs, and Bank of America raised its fee to $3. The average bounced-check fee is now a record high $28.23. Thankfully, you can take steps to avoid bank fees .
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Oct 03 2007, 07:46 PM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
A columnist at Living a Better Life offers insider tips on maximizing savings at garage sales. Consider this gem: Drive up in a fancy car and you won't have credibility when you haggle. Providing a new take on regifting, she's not ashamed to say she searches for items she can give as gifts. (She's also looking for stuff she can sell on eBay.) She must know what she's talking about: Her son was a shrewd negotiator at yard sales, and went on to a sales management career.
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Oct 04 2007, 10:10 AM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Blogging Away Deb t raises a little-known point about those money- and energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs . They contain mercury, so if you break one, leave the room for 15 minutes before you even begin following special instructions for cleaning it up. And, depending on where you live, you may not be able to put the broken pieces out with your regular trash.
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Oct 05 2007, 06:43 AM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
It's easier to save money when people aren't bombarding you with solicitations to spend. With that in mind, take note that the federal Do-Not-Call list expires next summer for those who signed up when it became available five years ago. Unless you renew your registration at the DoNotCall.gov Web site every five years, you'll be getting those delightful telephone sales pitches we all came to hate. MSN Money's award-winning Liz Pulliam Weston offers advice about how to stop the flood of unwanted phone calls, junk mail and spam .
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Oct 05 2007, 07:16 AM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Hey, this really happened. We also know that the farmer got his money back. A little-known federal agency, the Mutilated Currency Division of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing , will replace money made unusable by events like fire, flooding, shredding and -- mastication. A wonderfully interesting article at Bankrate.com walks you through the steps of redeeming sodden, charred, chewed or otherwise ruined paper money. The farmer took the extra step of sending in one of the slaughtered cow's stomachs. Not required.
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Oct 05 2007, 08:52 AM
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Karen Datko
Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Two modern-day nomads have figured out how to live on the cheap in fabulous places. The Professional Hobo 's next destination? Hawaii, where she'll be a caretaker on a 76-acre beachfront property. She uses several resources to connect with paying ( Caretaker Gazette ) and volunteer (Wwoofing and Rotary International ) projects around the world. Fabulously Broke offers another take on the "homeless" life, living out of a suitcase -- in nice hotels -- as she moves from city to city.
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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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