You’ve probably heard about the Schwab Invest First credit card already. You know, the one that offers 2% cashback on all purchases? It’s been available for roughly a year now, but Schwab has stopped actively promoting it. A working application link is difficult to find, but try this one below: Application Link In years past, [...]
Archive for 2009
Schwab Invest First Credit Card – Working Link
Posted 29 November 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Credit cards | 9 Comments
Restaurant.com Coupon – Save 80% (TREATS)
Posted 27 October 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Deals | 1 Comment
Need a frugal excuse to go out to dinner? Restaurant.com is currently offering $25 gift certificates for participating restaurants. The usual price is $10, but you can get them for $2 if you use the promo code TREATS. Just go to Restaurant.com and type in your ZIP code to search for participating restaurants. You can [...]
So I Went to the Movies Yesterday…
Posted 11 October 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Frugal living, Humor, Market | Comments Off
Yesterday, my wife and I went to the movies. Sounds like a typical Saturday, right? Wrong. Whereas I’m a pretty big frequenter of venues such as art galleries, theatrical productions, concert music, and even independent movie theatres, I very rarely go to the mainstream cinema. VERY rarely. In fact, the last movie I watched in [...]
Life Update – New Job, New Location, Old Lifestyle
Posted 3 October 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Frugal living, Goals | 1 Comment
Mr. B is back! In the last few months, a lot has happened. When last I posted, I was Mr. B – homeowner, starving artist, graduate student and teaching assistant at a major university in the Midwest, doing everything I could to keep the bills paid on an embarrassingly low TA salary. When I say [...]
Chase Sapphire Sign-up Bonus – $100 or $150
Posted 25 July 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Credit cards | 6 Comments
Chase is promoting their new Sapphire credit card by offering a sign-up bonus for it. The card comes in both a free version and an annual fee version, with a $100 and a $150 sign-up bonus respectively. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like you can get both bonuses because the offer is only good for first-time [...]
Bill Moyers and Wendell Potter – Profits Before Patients
Posted 22 July 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Education | Comments Off
With all the talk about health care in the news lately, I thought it relevant for everyone to watch Bill Moyers’ interview with Wendell Potter, a health insurance insider and former executive for Cigna. Seriously, everyone should watch it. It’s eye-opening, to say the least. Now I’m not surprised at all why Aetna (my health/dental [...]
Savings Rate Wiki – Facelift
Posted 17 July 2009 by Mr. BTagged As: | Categories: Savings | Comments Off
In thinking of ways to make updating the Savings Rate APY Wiki a little easier, I decided to give it a full facelift. Take a look! It now has better integration with the rest of the site. Plus, it’s hosted by Google Docs, meaning that making updates is as simple as editing a spreadsheet (no [...]
