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How I Beat the Bookstore: Part 1

I am a big proponent of not buying textbooks from the campus bookstore. Textbooks are already expensive, but bookstores also try to get their hooks in us also, forcing us to buy books at inflated prices and then offering us pennies on the dollar to sell the books back - giving them pure profit. I [...]

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Saturday Morning Cool Links

Well, I forgot to post yesterday, so I am going to hit you with twice the regular number of posts today. This one is going to be some cool links I’ve accumulated over the last couple of days, stay tuned later for the second one.

I Can?t Take You People Anywhere?(Employee Evolution)
Funny story about going out [...]

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HSBC Online Savings and Quicken

Resurrecting a post from tumblr:
Finally figured out how to get HSBC to talk to Quicken, here?s the secret:
Enter your username in caps with your password (not the security key that you enter on the on-screen keyboard) as your ?PIN?.
(Courtesy of this site)

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The Real Value of an Education

I had to transfer. I had spent two years at RPI, where I was gradually becoming more and more unhappy. My debts were rapidly growing and I didn’t see the value in what I was spending, I didn’t feel like I had any idea what I was going to do with my life and career, [...]

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Tracking Shared Expenses In Quicken

When you have roommates or a significant other that you often share expenses with, how do you track them? You can have an arrangement where one person pays the electricity bill and the other one pays gas, or perhaps you pay 50/50 on everything. If you are always playing the balancing game, trying to keep [...]

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