Quality of Life Purchases

My wife and I are tightwads frugal. We’ve managed to save a good chunk of money by cutting a lot of the “extras” out of our lives, such as frequent trips to the movies and eating out on a regular basis. Occasionally we have friends or family imply (or sometimes outright say) that we aren’t enjoying our lives, and that we are missing out on life. Instead of going over the...

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Rhyta Arcade

I’m always looking to start new, zero maintenance sites. A website only has to earn about $1/month in order to be profitable, so even a tiny low-earning site can bring in long-term profit. My latest zero maintenance site is Rhyta Arcade, a free Flash game arcade site. My games come from Mochi (which is great because they insert pre-roll ads into the games and pay CPM/PPC for them) so I...

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Conduit Toolbars

Back in April of 2007, I signed up with Conduit. They offer website publishers to quickly and easily create a completely custom browser toolbar that works with both Internet Explorer and Firefox. To make it even better, they pay the publisher when people use the toolbar! To get me started, they gave me a $100 bonus, but the minimum payout was $250 (I could cash out earlier, but wouldn’t get...

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SSN Registry

Ryan Allred and I recently launched the SSN Registry. So what is the SSN Registry? Here is a snippet from the homepage: As many as 10 million Americans a year are victims of identity theft. This is largely due to the large amount of personal information that is now available on the Internet. The Social Security Number Registry is dedicated to protecting your identity by assisting you in locating...

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Free Gift Cards

Over the past several months I have been able to save a good amount of money by using free gift cards. NuRide According to NuRide’s website: NuRide is the nation’s largest online ridesharing community where members are rewarded for sharing rides. NuRide is free to join and free to use and is supported by sponsors who reward NuRide members for reducing global warming, traffic congestion...

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“The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.”

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender. -Proverbs 22:7 Most financial blogs focus on the evils of credit. However, these bloggers are only writing from the perspective of the borrower. As long as you are honest in your lending and do not try to take advantage of others, then there is a lot of honest money to be made in lending. One of the ways I’ve started...

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