By Patrick on Apr 25, 2008 in Frugal Living | 23 Comments
My wife and I have two old laptop computers, and we recently decided to replace one of them with a new desktop computer. We’re not the kind of people to throw around money, so we did a few frugal things to improve our old computer’s performance before deciding to buy a new computer. In the [...]
By Patrick on Apr 24, 2008 in Frugal Living | 40 Comments
My wife and have two 6 year old laptop computers which, until recently, were running sloooowly (think molasses in January slow). We thought we would need to buy two new computers, but thankfully, we found a few ways to improve their performance and ultimately extend their life.
In then end, we decided one of them was [...]
By Patrick on Apr 23, 2008 in Energy and Money | 19 Comments
Somewhere along the way I missed the memo about Earth Day, which was yesterday. I thought I would share 12 ways I conserve energy and resources on a daily basis. Not only are these actions good for our environment, they are good for the pocketbook as well.
1. Drive a fuel efficient car. My car gets [...]
By Patrick on Apr 22, 2008 in Career and Education, Personal Finance | 16 Comments
Plonkee recently wrote a blog article asking readers and other bloggers about their best financial move in college. You see, most people have a tale or two to tell regarding how they messed things up a bit - taking too many student loans, misusing credit cards, taking too long to graduate, or getting the [...]
By Patrick on Apr 21, 2008 in Taxes | 236 Comments
I’ve written about the economic stimulus rebate program a few times on my site, but I continue to receive a substantial amount of stimulus questions in the comments of the articles I have written and via e-mail. Because I have received a lot of questions, I thought it would be good to put the majority [...]