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Overstock.com $20 for $10 at Eversave

Groupon-like site Eversave has $20 to spend at Overstock.com for $10. If you are a new user, you'll also get $3 credit instantly when signing up, but you can't use it on this offer. Overstock.com has free shipping as well until 12/25/2011. Limit … [Read the rest]

Mobility vs. Geography: Percent Born In State of Residence Map (2010)

I can't stop posting map infographics! They're just so pretty. :) Richard Florida of The Atlantic shared the map above, which shows the percentage of residents of each state that were born in that state. He then goes one step further and concludes … [Read the rest]

Never Pay Full Price When Buying Gift Cards

Gift cards. Even though they are far from perfect - let's face it, there's a reason they have become so popular. They are convenient to buy, require minimal decision-making, and you get to spend exactly what you budgeted. While you may fall back upon … [Read the rest]

Prosper Holiday Offers: Free iPads & iPods for Lenders and Borrowers

Person-to-person lending site Prosper.com is running a few holiday promotions for both borrowers and lenders. If you have great credit, check out how your loan fees could be much less than the value of the iPod you get! Free iPod Nano with … [Read the rest]

Vente-Privee $20 Credit With First Purchase Using American Express

Vente Privee is kind of a fancy Groupon-like deal site that sells designer things in 72-hour sales. That doesn't sound like something I'd normally be interested in at all, but they are offering a $20 statement credit with your first purchase with … [Read the rest]

List of Free MP3 Songs From Google Music

Google Music was opened to the public recently, and I finally got a chance to poke around. I'm not an especially active user of all these services where you save all your music in the cloud, as I'm pretty happy with my iPod Touch. I buy a few … [Read the rest]

Borrowing Library e-Books On Kindle Using Overdrive

I'm a pretty regular user of my local library, usually with 3-4 books out each month (with only 1-2 completely read + a few bucks in late fees). I bought a Kindle a few months ago* and was happy to hear that I can now borrow e-books from my … [Read the rest]

Mastercard $20 Gift Card For $200 Purchase

Mastercard has a holiday offer going where if you register your Mastercard credit card number and spend $200 online with it, you'll get a $20 gift card. Valid for first 80,000 - this promo started yesterday and I have no idea how long that'll last, … [Read the rest]

Spending and Saving Money Is All About Trade Offs

Author and professor Dan Ariely has gained fame from being able to make his behavioral economics research accessible to the general public. We all want to understand better why we do what we do. His newest book is The Upside of Irrationality. … [Read the rest]

Compare Sales, Income, and Property Taxes By State – US Map 2011

(Update 2011: I ran a search for this topic and found my own site. Ha! The maps were from 2009, so I updated this post with the updated 2011 information. They appear to have actually taken some of the feedback from earlier comment and improved the … [Read the rest]

Betterment.com Stock Asset Allocation Updated 2011

(Update: Betterment has a new promo for a $100 bonus with $10,000 investment held for at least 60 days. This is a bigger bonus with bigger requirement than the previous $25 bonus for a $250 investment. In case you wanted to know, my $1,000 … [Read the rest]

The Last Lecture: Legacy, Achieving Goals, and Gratitude

The late Randy Pausch became well known as a Carnegie Mellon professor who made a inspirational "last lecture" called Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (over 14 million views) after his diagnosis with pancreatic cancer. He later then wrote a book … [Read the rest]