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Spring Cleaning: What to Sell, What to Donate, and What to Throw Away

February 29, 2012

Welcome into March DINKS.  It’s time for the snow to stop and the sun to start shining.  It’s also time for spring cleaning.  Every year around this time people start to clean out their closets, their cupboards, their drawers, and their shelves.  Very often we see posts from financial bloggers about making extra money by [...]

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Nine Ways to Make Extra Money

April 6, 2008

Hi All, We thought it would be fun to share some things we’ve done to make extra money on the side. 1) Invest in high yield stock using DRIPS: For a while we DINKs held stock in Exxon Mobile and Johnson Controls through a dividend reinvestment program. We got in initially for around 250 bucks [...]

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Sell Your Frequent Flyer Miles

November 13, 2007

Good Morning! In keeping with our theme of frugal travel week, I’m doing a quick posting on a topic many people don’t think about: airline miles. Have you ever had a ton of airlines miles, but haven’t been sure about what to do with them? Well, – it turns out that airline miles are a [...]

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Check Out this Craigslists Golddigger

October 11, 2007

Hi All, – feel free to check out this add on craigslist. Its making the rounds on the message boards and even has a Reuters story about it. THIS APPEARED ON CRAIG’S LIST What am I doing wrong? Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. [...]

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Don’t Get Scammed!

July 21, 2007

So we are all know to run the other way when we get a message from Nigeria claiming that there are millions just waiting for us to lay claim to. It is also important to keep in mind that you can get scammed closer to home. I met a guy the other night who got [...]

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Rethinking Loral Langemeier

May 11, 2007

A few weeks back, I wrote a rather scathing review of Loral Langemeier‘s book, The Millionaire Maker. Since then, the book has been hanging around on my shelf while we decided what to do with it. A couple of days ago, I grabbed it and started leafing through it. In retrospect, perhaps I’d been overly [...]

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Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

March 20, 2007

Here is an interesting video from the Craigslist money forums. Its a 40 minute clip on the history of money and workings of the federal reserve system. The film is highly critical of the federal reserve, so I would take its conclusions with a BIG grain of salt. That said, it does have a concise [...]

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The Kuwaiti Stock Exchange

February 2, 2007

Pic of the day from the craigslist money forum…

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Yard Sales are great fun!

July 30, 2006

The age old American tradition of purging of unwanted items that are someone else’s treasures is alive and well! Despite the 90 degree weather with 80% humidity with no shade, we managed to make out with more than just a sun burn. More important than walking away with $171, we managed to declutter our lives [...]

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Our House Savings

May 19, 2006

One thing about finance blogland is there is a lot of talk about saving, but fewer examples of how people actually do it. If you’re a frequent reader of Dual Income No Kids, you know that we are homeowners. When we were saving for our place, we kept a record of where our savings came [...]

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