Archive for 'Finance' Category
Reduce Your Rent with a Letter
To Whom It May Concern: We’re writing in regards to the renewal of our lease at [insert your address here]. On [date you moved in], we [names of tenants] moved into a unit in the aforementioned property. Since then, property values in Manhattan [replace with your city or neighborhood] have declined by 5.6% for two-bedrooms [...]
Most Common Bank Fees
Here’s a list of the three most common bank fees and how you can easily avoid them. Overdraft fees: …charged when you make a financial commitment (a check or debit card charge) you can’t fulfill …the fees get larger each time …they’re the result of carelessness, you need to keep close tabs on how much [...]
Prepare your Taxes with IRS Free File
IRS Free File Free File is the fast, easy, and free way to prepare and e-file your federal taxes online. The Free File program is only available to taxpayers who have a 2008 Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) of $56,000 or less. Each participating software company sets its own eligibility requirements and not all taxpayers will [...]
Eating Out on the Cheap
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Top 10 Cities for Annual Physician Pay
Family and general practitioners Syracuse, N.Y., $198,350 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Fla., $195,810 Wichita, Kans., $194,580 Milwaukee, $193,840 Greensboro, $187,590 Tulsa, $187,030 Jackson, Miss., $186,820 San Jose, $185,250 Columbus, $185,150 Kansas City, $184,840 Lowest: St. Louis, $120,360 Surgeons Albuquerque, $212,850 Atlanta, $211,050 Springfield, Mass., $209,020 Des Moines, Iowa, $208,570 Buffalo, $206,680 Boston, $206,390 Toledo, Ohio, $206,110 [...]
Food Stamp Eligibility for Students
Most able-bodied students ages 18 through 49 who are enrolled in college or other institutions of higher education at least half time are not eligible for SNAP benefits. However, students may be able to get SNAP benefits if otherwise eligible and they: Get public assistance benefits under a Title IV-A program; Take part in a [...]
Extreme Food Frugality
Do NOT pick frozen dinners just because they are cheap. They will end up costing more than if you just made the dinner yourself and froze the leftovers for lunch. whenever pasta and pasta sauce goes on sale, stock up whenever ground meat …goes on sale buy a lot …split the packages into ~1/2 lbs [...]
How to Ask for Money
Promise Enclosure – Many schools have switched to doing their meal plans in the form of dollars, rather than number of meals. If you attend one of these schools, you can give your parents the guarantee that their money supplement won’t go toward booze, drugs or movie tickets. Such a promise pulls at the heart [...]
Amazon's Ink & Toner Finder – Cheap Printer Cartridges
Save yourself an extra errand. Look to Amazon for your next printer toner refill. The Ink & Toner Finder is an easy way to find cheap printer cartridges via Lifehacker
How to Cut the Costs of Printing
Use Print Preview and Shrink to Fit How many times have you printed off what you thought was a single page document and ended up with an almost empty page at the end? If you always blindly click the print button without previewing first, you’re going to end up wasting a ton of ink and [...]