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GiftsforBanking CD Review: 2-Year CD at 1.85% APY + Gift Valued Up to ~1% APY

GiftsforBanking.com has a unique FDIC-insured certificate of deposit that pays out a mix of traditional cash interest and a physical gift. The underlying bank is GObanking.com, which is in turn a division of Flushing Bank. Via DepositAccounts, … [Read the rest]

Free 3-Month Pandora Premium Subscription Gift Code

Groupon is offering a free 3-month subscription of Pandora Premium music streaming service, which usually costs $9.99 per month. This upgrade includes access to 40 million songs on-demand, removal of all ads, unlimited skips, offline listening, and … [Read the rest]

Amazon: Buy 3 Items, Save 30% on Household Essentials

Amazon is offering a Buy 3 Items, Save 30% promotion when you buy selected items from their on Household Essentials and Health & Wellness categories. This includes common items like toilet paper, paper towels, flushable wipes, ziploc bags, soap, … [Read the rest]

MoviePass: $9.95 a Month for Unlimited Movies (1 Per Day)

Moviepass recently slashed their prices for unlimited in-theater movies (one per day) to only $9.95 per month. Here how it works in practical terms: You are limited to one 2-D movie per day. You can watch first-run movies on opening day. No … [Read the rest]

Citi Prestige Card Review

The Citi Prestige Card is their premium ThankYou point rewards card. Here are the highlights of the cards perks and sign-up bonus: 50,000 bonus points after spending $4,000 in purchases within the first 3 months of account opening. 50,000 … [Read the rest]

Virgin Mobile Full Year of Unlimited Service for $1 w/ iPhone Purchase

Virgin Mobile has extended their promotion offering a full year of unlimited service for $1 for new customers who buy an iPhone and transfer their number, as well as current Virgin Mobile customers who upgrade to an iPhone. Auto-pay required. It … [Read the rest]

Tough Times for Conservative Income Investors

JP Morgan Asset Management recently released the Q3 2017 update to their Guide to the Markets, which is another of those resources worth bookmarking for future updates. Some folks put a lot of time and energy into it, and it contains a lot of … [Read the rest]

Alaska Airlines Dash For Miles Promotion: 3,000 Bonus Miles, Reset Expiration

Alaska Airlines has a Dash for Miles promotion where you can earn up to 3,000 bonus miles: 1,000 bonus miles times three partner sites through September 30, 2017. You must register at the link above first, and then complete at least one transaction … [Read the rest]

1,000 Marriott Rewards Points for New Visa Checkout Customers

Here's another promotion for Visa Checkout (they are really pushing this thing). Create a new Visa Checkout account from Marriott.com and earn up to 1,000 free Marriott Rewards points: Earn 500 points when you sign up for Visa Checkout on … [Read the rest]

$20 Starbucks Gift Card for $10 with Visa Checkout

Fall promo is live. Starbucks is selling $20 Starbucks Gift Card for $10 if you buy it using Visa Checkout instead of credit card directly. Limited to the first 225,000 loads, but if you can still buy a gift card at the link, then the promotion is … [Read the rest]

Solo 401k – Best Retirement Plan for Self-Employed Business Owners

The wealth management group Del Monte published a whitepaper on Solo 401k plans, calling it the "financial industry's best kept secret" and a "powerful and underutilized" retirement plan for self-employed business owners. The 4-page PDF does a … [Read the rest]

Man Who Lived Alone on an Mediterranean Island For Nearly 30 Years

Financial freedom means that you can do what you want. Now consider that if you earn like everyone else and spend like everyone, you'll end up like everyone else. This is why unconventional people are the most likely to achieve early retirement. … [Read the rest]