Imagine you owe over $5,000 on your credit card.
Out of the blue, the company calls to ask if you can pay just 80% of the balance, and they’ll waive the rest.
You refuse. Then the company calls you later, and asks for only 50%.
Besides knowing what Kim will be replacing Jong Il in Korea or how Rod Blagojevich's hair looks today, keeping up on the news lets us have an educated voice. As we saw in the last presidential election, more of us voted than ever before and our influence was felt.
Starting July 1, repaying student loans will be easier for some borrowers. A new program will go into effect that will cap monthly student loan payments based on income.
A borrower must first meet these conditions:
Playing around with the latest software can be fun, but it's expensive. So why not try free alternatives? They may not have all the features of their full-price brethren, but you won't have to pay hundreds of dollars to use them. These programs run on Mac OS, and Windows:
Craigslist is expected to make $100 million in revenue this year. That's pretty good for a site that doesn't bombard you with ads. They also have the classiest storefront of any multimillion dollar company I've seen. This expected figure is up from the estimated $81 million the company made in 2008.
Here in Oregon, June is the transition month between rainy spring to glorious summer. If your closet looks anything like mine, it is a mess of winter sweaters, summer t-shirts, and old long sleeved shirts. So, the question is: what should you do to conquer your seasonally confused wardrobe?
There are plenty of consignment shops who are in need of your old winter clothes, and they will pay cash for that sweater you accidentally shrunk last winter.
Starting at midnight Eastern time on Saturday (June 13th), Facebookers around the world will be able to personalize their URLs. This means that the URL for your Facebook Pages and profile will no longer be a randomly assigned number. The idea behind this change is that Facebook is trying to make it easier to find people via search engines while boosting its Internet traffic.
Recycling is all well and good, but it's easy to forget that reusing products is another great strategy to help the environment. When reusing products you can be creative, taking things you normally would throw away and turning them in to products you would otherwise have to buy.
Imagine you’re sitting at your desk, taking care of a few odds and ends – homework, updating your Facebook page – and you come across a really cool listing.
This year's National Texting Champion has been crowned. While some may view this activity as a waste of time, the 15-year-old text master took home $50,000.
When my cell phone contract came up for renewal, I decided to ditch my old phone for one that had everything I could want: Touch screen, applications to keep track of pro sports teams (Blazers!), a decent browser… I'm worth it, right?
