Friday

Weekly Roundup


Still Tasty is a very useful site that provides shelf life guides for food and beverages, as well as storage and safety tips. Their information is gathered from federal and state agencies, non-profit organizations, as well as food and beverage manufacturers.

eFootage offers 1,000’s of hours of both contemporary and vintage stock footage. While it is a for profit site anyone can search and view their huge catalog of stock footage.

Home with the Kids can help sort through work at home scams, discusses the stay at home lifestyle, and offers discussion boards, a newsletter and many articles about working from home.

These five people explain why they took social security early.

Fare Compare is an airline ticket comparison shopping website where you can compare prices on thousands of airline flight options from over 500 airlines.

Some recent personal finance posts I enjoyed reading.

Using quotes this post puts together the Mike Tyson Guide to Financial Planning.

Here are seven ways to avoid paying full price.

Weekly Reminder – A reminder of a useful article you might have missed. Here are some tips on how to save money by foraging.

Our Redbox Experience

We finally made the effort to actually rent a movie from a Redbox machine. Several friends and family members have been using Redbox to rent movies for a dollar each for a while now and they would usually just shake their heads and change the subject when we said we were meaning to try it but just had not gotten around to it. So last week when my wife and I wanted to rent a new release I suggested Redbox. Our closest grocery store has one out front so we drove over there and tried it. We found one we wanted, entered the free rental code and got to the part where you swipe your credit card and…it wouldn’t take. After several more attempts we stepped out of the way to let the couple behind us try. Same result. We had a small debate about just going to the video store or trying another Redbox. The allure of a free new release was too tempting so we drove several blocks to another machine in front of a McDonalds. Everything worked the first time and we took home our free movie to watch, glad that we had decided to persevere.

I imagine this is old news to most of you but Inside Redbox is an excellent site to find codes for free rentals.

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