Scrapfoo for grocery shopping


Written on February 21, 2011 – 5:19 pm | by admin

Scrapfoo.com is a search engine for grocery shopping. You basically put in your zip code and grocery list, and scrapfoo.com instantly returns to you a customized circular showing deals and prices of items that match your grocery list from supermarkets near you.

This idea came about when we realized that while everyone’s grocery lists are different, all store circulars are the same. We had to browse through 6-7 pages of circular only to find 1 thing that we are interested in. Hence we made scrapfoo.com and now the deals look for us. Currently, we have 16 or so stores listed and we are planning to add plenty more in the near future. Please check us out and let us know what you think.

Oakwood Temporary Housing


Written on February 11, 2011 – 5:05 pm | by admin

Looking for ways to save money while not sacrificing quality or comfort? That’s something we’d all like do with upcoming travel plans, whether we’re traveling for leisure, the holidays or business. Well, now high hotel rates can be a thing of the past! Oakwood Temporary Housing can provide a quality home away from home for you, your family and your friends – for a better value.

Oakwood Temporary Housing provides:

  • More Living Room – Oakwood offers fully furnished and serviced apartments that provide more space and flexibility than most hotels. Enjoy full size kitchens, extra living space, and complete furnishings to make your stay more comfortable and more affordable.
  • More Flexibility – Enjoy the added convenience of cooking and eating in! Oakwood apartments have fully equipped kitchens including cookware, dishes, glassware, and cutlery. Additional meal options for less!
  • More Space – An Oakwood apartment is, on average, over twice the size of a typical hotel room. With separate living and dining rooms you will have the extra space you need. That means even more room to relax, unwind and enjoy your free time!

Oakwood has over 4,000 locations worldwide with most properties accommodating guests for short or long term stays. Check out oakwood.com for more information, including rates, locations, floor plans, pictures, and availability.

MicroMaximus


Written on February 6, 2011 – 5:05 pm | by admin

Reward Checking Accounts are gaining in popularity as consumers look for new ways to earn more with their idle cash. The yields of traditional low risk investments, such as Online Savings Accounts and CDs, have recently been low when compared with Reward Checking Accounts. While Reward Checking Accounts usually have certain monthly requirements, many account holders are able to meet these requirements with little trouble.

However, these requirements turn many others away from Reward Checking Accounts. MicroMaximus is a new service designed to help consumers who might not otherwise meet the monthly transaction requirements. It allows them to fulfill these requirements easily and earn the advertised Reward Checking Account rate. MicroMaximus users will be able to schedule $1.00 transactions online in order to meet their Reward Checking Account requirements quickly and securely.

For more information about MicroMaximus, visit our site. While you’re there, don’t forget to read our personal finance blog.

Kalengo, the new online portfolio manager


Written on October 8, 2010 – 7:01 am | by admin

Kalengo is an innovative financial social network that brings the best of investment analysis together with collective market intelligence. Built on an open and extensible social network platform, Kalengo delivers to investors highly-personalized institutional-quality portfolio analysis tools, curated financial information from millions of news articles and blog posts, and intuitive financial data visualization.Easy to use and easy to understand, Kalengo succeeds in delivering modern finance theory and the concept of diversification, optimization, risk-adjusted return combined with social investing.

Site Features

The product and service distinguishing Kalengo as the next generation financial social network includes:

  1. Institutional-quality Analysis Tools for Portfolio and Assets. Optimize your portfolio to maximize your expected return without
    taking on additional risk.  Monitor your portfolio’s risk and style against benchmarks Watch specific asset and analyze assets’ relationship between each other.
  2. Curated Financial Information.  Monitor how news move the market as well as your stock.  Easily gauge market sentiment from millions of news article and
    blog posts.
  3. Wisdom of the Masses in Investment Community. Evaluate your performance in the community by comparing with others.  Observe the top players’ behavior or simply mirror their strategies for your comfort.  Share and exchange investment ideas and opinions.

Our Team

Prior to starting Kalengo, our team of Wall Street veterans spent years on building FinPortfolio – “Online Investing Tools That Leap Light-Years Ahead” (Business Week) and “Best of the Web” (Forbes). All the financial tools raved about in the press are now part of Kalengo, the next generation financial social network. “By leveraging collective intelligence of the community, Kalengo is able to make the often abstract concept of finance and portfolio management much more meaningful and personalized to the Average Joe investors.” said Tony Zhang, the founder and CEO of Kalengo.

Kalengo’s core team has previously worked for major Wall Street firms, technology companies and Internet startups, including Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America, Citibank, and JP Morgan Chase. They bring together significant knowledge, skills and experience in the areas of active portfolio management, financial engineering, risk management, enterprise web development, and strategic marketing and consulting.

The Super Saver blog is up


Written on October 2, 2010 – 10:58 am | by admin

Although Super Saver has been giving financial consumer advice in hard copy since 1980, the Super Saver blog is brand new and has recently been launched in 2010. Pay her a visit!

Check out My Personal Finance Journey


Written on September 28, 2010 – 12:56 am | by admin

Short and sweet!  Here’s the link!

New personal budgeting application


Written on August 27, 2010 – 3:03 am | by admin

Everyone has certain financial goals in life. To attain these financial goals, one has to budget and manage finances responsibly. It becomes quite difficult to achieve your short term and long term financial goals without an effective budget. So, it can be said that budgeting has a prominent role in your financial life. With a suitable budget, you can save a significant amount every month that you can invest for a higher return in future.

We are glad that our community on debt consolidation has introduced something new and unique for everyone to calculate their budgets and income. While planning a budget, it is quite important to plan a realistic one. Otherwise, you’d not be able to follow it for a long time. So, it is better to plan a sensible budget as per you needs and financial situation. You can take help of a personal budgeting application to plan such a realistic budget. There are several personal budgeting applications available online.

The Personal Budgeting Application developed by DebtConsolidationCare.com (DebtCC) Community is free of cost and very easy to use. You can use it as many times as you want. However, you’d have to become a registered member to save your data in order to maintain a record. In turn, it would help you in assessing your progress over the months. The visual representation in the form of easy-to-understand graphs helps you analyze your expenses on a month-to-month basis. Thus, you can track your progress and take necessary steps to improve your budget, if required.

The DebtCC Personal Budgeting Application is a 4 step process, which are Income, Budget, Expenses and Report. When you fill out the respective fields in the ‘Income’ section, the Application displays your total income in that particular month. You need to fill out the fields with financial information such as, your gross salary, bonus, wages, etc. The next step is to plan a budget that is, how you want to spend your income. You should fill out the ‘Expenses’ section with your actual expenditure so as to calculate what you’ve allocated on an item and what you’ve actually spent on it.

After filling out the required fields with accurate information, you can click on the ‘Report’ section to review how much you’ve been able to save. You can also use this Application to compare your budget with that of the community. If required, you can make changes to your budget so as to make it more effective.

Planning a realistic budget involves a lot of calculations. However, you can use this Personal Budgeting Application for your calculations without having to use an excel sheet. Moreover, when you become a registered member, you can also change your data as and when required. In turn, it would help you manage your personal finances in a better way.

PerkStreet Financial


Written on August 16, 2010 – 1:29 am | by admin

PerkStreet Financial(SM), the progressive online financial services company with the best checking account rewards in the United States, is now offering the first 2 percent cash back program for debit card users. In addition to 2 percent cash back, customers can earn up to 5 percent cash back when they spend at preferred merchants or in specified categories (like gas or home improvement). The typical American family can now earn over $600 annually for their everyday spending, without having to pay membership fees or jump through hoops to earn the rewards.

The new PerkStreet Financial Visa® Debit Card even puts more cash back into customers’ hands than most “high interest” checking programs. Consumers no longer need to take on annual fees or grow their debt just to get great rewards.

PerkStreet will be announcing special opportunities to earn up to 5 percent throughout the year.

“With this offer we’re beating many credit card rewards programs in the market today, which is unheard of for a debit card. And when it comes to debit card rewards, it’s really not even a fair comparison,” said Dan O’Malley, CEO of PerkStreet Financial. “If you’ve been spending on credit cards just to get rewards, this is the alternative you’ve been looking for. Imagine, finally being rewarded for spending wisely.”

PerkStreet customers can earn 2 percent cash back on all non-PIN debit card purchases when they have a daily opening balance of at least $5,000 in their checking account. Customers will continue to earn PerkStreet’s standard 1 percent cash back on all non-PIN debit card purchases even when their account balance is less than $5,000 — still 25 times better than the average debit card rewards program. PerkStreet is offering a three month grace period before the balance requirement takes effect.

To sign up for PerkStreet Financial’s new 2 percent cash back offering, visit http://www.perkstreet.com.

Schwab MoneyWise


Written on August 12, 2010 – 1:28 am | by admin

Charles Schwab has announced a new educational campaign to help young adults facing “financial firsts” as they graduate, start working and begin living on their own. The campaign will be delivered through Schwab’s award-winning educational website, www.SchwabMoneyWise.com, and via Twitter.

A new hub on schwabmoneywise.com now addresses the specific financial challenges facing young people in their 20s who are just starting out. In addition, a Financial Fitness Quiz provides a compelling way to begin. This quick diagnostic not only allows people to see how financially fit they are based on routine behaviors, but also shows them how they compare to other people their age and offers them valuable next steps.

Today’s young adults face many financial firsts as they enter the workforce and begin living on their own. They have to learn how to manage a paycheck, pay off student loans and credit cards, rent their first apartment and start paying taxes – all in addition to figuring out their future career path.

Schwab’s premise for the campaign is that learning how to manage money doesn’t have to be overly complicated or time-consuming. Using themes that are relevant to young adults’ lifestyle and that speak to their unique financial circumstances, the Money Mondays campaign will strive to inspire young people to take a few moments each Monday to improve their financial health through a weekly menu of easy-to-digest actions that lead to specific, obtainable financial goals. Money Mondays’ weekly financial tips will be tweeted from @schwabmoneywise and posted on the SchwabMoneyWise.com website along with links to relevant tools, resources and information. By following along, one simple step at a time, young people can begin to develop sound habits that will put them in control of their own money—not just by helping them live within their means but also by helping them begin to save for the future.

As an added incentive, Money Mondays™ will hold bi-monthly contests on SchwabMoneyWise.com with $100 cash prizes. While money is a serious issue, the contests will pose questions that are lighthearted in nature on subjects that resonate with young adults. Contest questions will also encourage participants to share experiences they’ve had and lessons they’ve learned. Throughout the year, Schwab will actively solicit suggestions through Twitter for new website content, contest questions, and tips to improve money habits that have worked for the community.

Banker eats people. News at 11


Written on July 5, 2010 – 11:40 pm | by admin

Without reform, including control of outrageous fees and hidden costs, says CU, owner of Consumer Reports, we’re doomed to repeat the last two years’ financial fiasco. CU maintains that poor oversight of financial services allowed banks and Wall Street firms engaged in reckless behavior that resulted in record home foreclosures and job losses.

Check the video out here.