http://www.budgetcents.net Tips, Tricks and Easy Ways To Make Money Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:43:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en  Have a happy and safe 4th of July. And for heaven's sakes don't play with fireworks.... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/07/04/happy-4th-of-july/ ETrader raised their interest rates on their complete savings account from 3.15% to 3.30% yesterday. This isn't a huge increase, but it is good to see an upward trend in interest rates on high yield savings and checking accounts I currently use this account for my emergency fund. I recommend it ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/07/03/etrade-complete-savings-up-to-330/ If you are like me and are waiting for the Xbox 360 to approach a more reasonable price before you buy, July 6th might be a good day for you. According to this photo that was released, K-Mart already is starting to advertise the price drop. The photo, of a K-Mart ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/27/xbox-360-price-cut/ With the freakish increase in gas prices, it only makes sense that the IRS gets moving and ups irs mileage allowance They are increasing the irs mileage rate from 50.5 cents per mile to 58.5 cents per mile. The increased irs mileage rates covers miles driven from July 1, 2008, through ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/26/irs-mileage-rates-going-up/ T-Mobile's new HotSpot@Home Talk Forever Home will launch next week. You can read my earlier post for the details of the service, but in a nutshell, it is home telephone service. You install a wireless router which allows you to plug telehpones into it. You then have home service that uses ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/25/t-mobile-hotspothome-talk-forever-home-to-launch-next-week/ Yahoo User Research is calling for people to sign up and help them out with some research projects. It looks as if Yahoo is working to make its sites and search engine more user friendly and as a result will attract more users. To do this they are looking for feedback ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/24/get-paid-by-yahoo-user-research/ Discover Card is giving away a free Garmin Nuvi 200 GPS System when you sign up for their Miles credit card. You will receive Garmin GPS once you have received that card and activated it. The Discover Miles card gives your Double Miles on up to $3,000 in travel and restaurant ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/23/free-garmin-nuvi-gps-from-discover-card/ We have see state and local governments crack down on talking on a cell phone while driving, but now the push has been to include texting as well. Sending text messages while driving, I think, is worse than being on a call. I've done a few text messages while driving ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/20/texting-while-driving-can-cost-you/ Not many people realize that their credit card may offer a good type of fraud protection called Virtual Account Numbers. Virtual Account numbers are a one time use number that points back to your main credit card number. The main use of this is when buying things over the Internet. ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/19/use-virtual-account-numbers-to-fight-fraud/ In hopes of getting people to add more money in their accounts, you are seeing an increasing trend of local banks creating High Yield Checking Accounts, also referred to as Reward Checking Accounts. A High Yield Checking Account is pretty much the same as a regular checking account, but it tends ... http://www.budgetcents.net/2008/06/18/high-yield-checking-accounts/