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October 27, 2025 Money Saving Tips

Cash Back Apps: Ibotta & Fetch

My girlfriend recently discovered Ibotta and Fetch. She has several friends who have been using these apps to get cash back on their purchases and decided to try them for herself. This won’t be an in-depth review of cash back apps. You can find lots of good reviews online. I

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October 20, 2025 Money Saving Tips

Appliance Recycling Costs

Twice a year our city has a residential waste recycling event. I was thinking I could get rid of some of the junk that I have squirreled away in my home. The event starts at 7:30AM and ends at 11:30PM. During the 4-hour window, there is typically a long line

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September 27, 2025 Money Saving Tips

My Downstream Data Cap

The Xfinity Internet plan I have limits downstream data to 150mbps and caps the monthly data at 1.2TB. Upload speed is 35mbps. They apply additional charges if you exceed the monthly data limit, so I utilize a setting on my Linksys EA6350 router to limit my bandwidth. The setting is

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September 18, 2025 Money Saving Tips

Machineshoplist.com

Back in 2012 I created a website for listing machine shops based in the US. One goal was to help machine shop owners by providing a free searchable database for their listings. The other goal was to see if I could create the code for a custom online database. Back

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September 5, 2025 Money Saving Tips

Goodwill Combined Shipping

I’m always looking for a way to save a few bucks, so I do a lot of bargain hunting on shopgoodwill.com. I recently came across a way to save on the cost of shipping. I won an auction on two items from the same Goodwill seller. On the payments page,

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August 12, 2025 Money Saving Tips

Amazon Price vs. Mfg Price

I came across another example of how Amazon’s price isn’t the best anymore. I was looking for a staple gun to tack down some low voltage wires. Went to Amazon.com and found a model that looked good. It was from a company called Surebonder. They have been providing affordable and

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