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A complete guide to paying your Federal taxes with a credit card. Good info here. I miss My Vanilla Debit card so much 🙂 Or you can keep it simple and pay directly on the IRS website with its Direct Pay feature. Expect to see more online services provided by your friendly IRS in the future.
Just in case you forgot to register for Marriott’s Megabonus promotion, do so now. You could earn free nights!
There are giveaways and then there ARE giveaways. Like the one at Personal Finance Digest. At first I thought it was going to be several millions of Hawaiian Airline miles but there was MORE! I especially like #8: Autographed copy of George vs. Ingy: The Collected Works, Volume 8 I will sign without a charge, not sure about Ingy 🙂
The Lazy Traveler digs into the IHG Rewards devaluation to find gems, you won’t believe what he found! 🙂 He appears to be doing this type of angry posts lately…or maybe this way this whole hobby is going lately!
The Twin Towers of Monrovia. I like reading about places I will likely never get to. Like Liberia!
Tree Camping in Elk, California. Interesting. I guess tree camping is the thing…Does not look as comfortable as the Hyatt suite you guys 🙂
9 historic places in Turkey. This monastery below…WOW!
Fog bank over the Great Lakes. Wow, what a photo!
20 Words You Need To Know To Avoid Getting Fleeced By Wall Street. This is funny and right on, my kind of personal finance post! You are welcome!
And I leave you with this…
Isn’t it just amazing how silent the big pumping bloggers have been about that PremiereCard with the 50k points offer that recently went down to just 40k? They were SCREAMING about how it is going to change blah blah blah. Hey, anything to pump more product! So, when they stopped getting paid for it and their main affiliate offer went down to just 40k points….guess what? As is typical, it did not take long for the public 50k offer links to be found again and then the big pumping bloggers fell silent! Or not as cheerful. Even MMS published it and then very smoothly tried to sell you the other big annual fee card lol. Using their links perpetuates this problem, YOU are NOT first there…the banks are! Help small bloggers so we can survive and fight back the extreme pumping hood! Ok, I am getting angry….I need to come down, thank you for understanding!
I have been asked three times now for the name of the drone my client recommended. So, it appears to be some interest. I don’t like adding affiliate links of stuff I do not try and highly recommend myself. But I trust my client who has been playing with drones ever since they came out and has had several. He spoke very highly of this starter drone, cheap but it is the one that lasted the longest after crashing in a forest and even sinking in a lake and many other abusive episodes…it kept on ticking. They all break eventually he said. Your mileage may vary. I plan to buy it myself after tax season! Thanks for using my Amazon affiliate link. If not, well don’t and move on! Or insult me in the comments and please make it entertaining to contribute to the mission of this site, thank you!
I will be in the Orlando airport around Tuesday Feb 2 around noon and will be having lunch somewhere. I will be available next Saturday Feb 6 for lunch as well in Orlando if any readers are around. Let me know.
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El primero lugar!
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Obviously you are not an early riser 🙂
Delay of game-5 yards.
Second, it seems.
Fair penalty. No first down too, right?
Finally got the damn thing to work by logging into it on my phone on the web bypassing the app!
Sorry abt that, we cant afford to pay staff around here!.
Hi from ATL on my plane, next stop Orlando!
Very foggy here!!!!
Why do fluke things happen when I am in the air, why?
No fog here 3rd
4th, highest I have ever been!
You can beat Spencer F, I know you can!
#inspiring readers to reach…higher!
Kumar, I hope you read this, I am planning a trip to your wonderful State, North Carolina soon, I have been doing extensive reasearch on it. I hope I can come over for some of your cooking Buzz is always raving about. I am a Civil War-History Buff that is planning a trip to Charleston, N.C. I hear Ingy is located in Hilton Head NC, so lets get him over too. Off course I want to see Fort Sumter, Myrtle Beach, Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg, North Carolina too. Let me know if you will be there first week of March. Maybe we can take in a Clemson University Gamecocks basketball game. Gamecocks, what a great nickname, you people in NC are crazy! See ya all soon, Ramsey.
You might want to bone up a little bit on your geography.
Thanks TPG but I majored in Geography at NCC but I will bone up.
correction make that TGP and Bowl Up.
Wow, that’s really great news, boss. I stay near Raleigh and we can definitely try and meet when you are here. Seeing Ingy and George together with you should be a triple bonus I guess 😉
I am in for Kumar’s curry…
Gamecocks? Hmm, ok I guess, lots of layups I suppose?
About that joint appearance hmmm….I don’t know. I need to talk to my agent about that. He scolded me for agreeing to free signing of the prize over at PFD. He is all about the dough you know lol.
Wow… my latest post has comments from both Ramsey AND Rick I. May as well change my name to George…
Really? Can’t wait to check out your soaring Alexa rankings next? 🙂
19 Things Everybody Should Know About Bank of America Credit Cards
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Boss said he is working on new post tomorrow before he hits the conference opening and then he plans to be at the bar FIRST!
I am in Orlando and going to the opening of the conference for the free food and booze mostly tonight.
There will be a full TBB post tomorrow! Sorry for the posting screw up today, it will cost me in my Alexa rankings lol.
Probaby no time to respond to the comments before I get back and depends on what state I am in, cough.
Mike: I see an order with 4 (which almost never happens around here) so it must be yours so continue doing what you did. And gracias!
Heads up…
I will likely post tomorrow’s post earlier than usual…
start your clicking
Thanks for sending TBB to the awesome unheard of Alexa ranking numbers, we are talking huge….(come on, give me an update so we can all laugh about how there is only one person in this planet who actually cares…and it’s NOT me!).
Me? Angry? Only when my boyish, wide-eyed optimism gets ruthlessly crushed!
A big producer does “produce” those commissions. You ever hear of someone coming in your front door and asking for a “B” share? Or a 7 yr trailing exit fee on a 7% ytb (yield to broker) annuity? That stuff doesnt sell itself brother. You gotta work to jam someone into that crap. And that is “producing”. Apologies to anyone who doesnt understand what I am saying but George will. Great List.
I understand.
I weep for the victims.
What an awesome list indeed, he nailed it!
I have seen 15 year trailing fee….If you think I get angry at 7…you won’t believe what…ok, I better stop now…I need to get some sleep, early rising in sunny Orlando.