Penny For My Thoughts

So about a week ago I got a dozen and a half  little bags of rice crackers at Ocean State Jot Lot.  They were $1.99 for all of them, so I figured they were worth a shot.  Yeach.  I think it may be the rice bran oil going rancid (though they don;t expire until August), [...]

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My favorite holiday is Halloween. While adulthood has limited my costuming (or Fancy Dress, as the British say), I can still revel in the glories of costumes gone by. My first year of college I was a fairy-I wore a blue disco dress I had from a show I was in in high [...]

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Can a fat cat cast national attention to the housing crisis? I’ve been pondering this since I found out the truth behind the cat that has been paraded all over the media as Princess Chunk. For those of you who missed it, it was revealed on Live with Regis and whomever that she [...]

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I am a huge fan of Vistaprint.com. I’ve used them for address stamps (which is a great housewarming gift, by the way), invitations, and even a t-shirt. However, while I’ve loved them as a great budget resource for personal use, they have a strong appeal to companies as well. One cool feature [...]

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I finally got my Q2 statement from my 401K.  It actually didn’t lose money over Q2, although I was happy to see my poorest performing fund has been ended and a new fund is offered.  I also took advantage of the reminder and went in and manually rebalanced my account, so everything is where it [...]

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Once again, on Wednesday I bring my readers some noteworthy pf blog posts

Her Every Cent Counts Blogs about Health Insurance

The Simple Dollar blogs about frugal activies

Squawkfox blogs about cheap summer eats

Adam at Your Money Relationship is giving away a $50 Walmart gift card

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I’ve been to Orlando five times, but I never went during the summer until the trip I took to Universal Orlando over the Forth of July. In all honesty, it was neither as hot nor as crowded as I expected. I had a great deal of fun. And, as a trade off [...]

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Stay in a mediocre hotel. 

I read the reviews in Tripadvisor before I booked the Roger Smith hotel for last Saturday night.  However we were sorely disappointed in the hotel.  To begin with, they offered valet parking, but once we arrived, we had to wait over 10 minutes for a valet to park our [...]

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Go to Central Park

Take the Staten Island Ferry round trip.  Pass by the statue of liberty and Ellis Island

Take the Ferry to Governor’s Island

Walk across the Brooklyn Bridge

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I love my laptop. When I travel, I frequently use wifi hotspots to connect to the internet. But I hate having to seek the signal, ok it, all that jazz. Fortunately, there’s a solution. Avantquest has introduced their Connection Manager, which keeps tracks of the settings and peripherals that come along [...]

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