Gas Price Update: $4.419

We talk about property taxes and the opportunity that homeowners have to get theirs reduced if their house has lost value. Don’t pay any more taxes than you’re obligated to.

We discuss a bit about how rewards credit cards aren’t all they’re cracked up to be. We also talk about things to look for in a rewards card and some things to avoid.

For those that are a little more computer savvy and would like to save a couple dollars by playing, free, legal games on their computer, we give a couple ways to find them.

First Option: legaltorrents.com
Second Option: Wikipedia’s List of open source games

Personal Favorite: Battle for Wesnoth - It’s a turn based, fantasy RPG.

David shares a few tips on saving energy and as energy prices go up, more and more money, that he has been implementing around the house.

Since David has been looking into ways to be a little more efficient energy-wise around the house, we discuss an article that he found on green.yahoo.com about “vampire power.”

We discuss an article from the Monterey Herald that says that tourists are spending less time and money in Las Vegas. We discuss how that could be an opportunity for you, if you’re looking to go to Vegas.

If you don’t want to create an account for the Monterey Herald, or any other site that needs a free registration, you can try bugmenot.com. They have existing logins that you can use.

David will be heading to Vegas August 14-16 for the New Media Expo. So, if you’re going and would like to meet up, send us an email.

Finally, we wrap up the show with some feedback from Lee in Connecticut.

 

 MOB #39 - Property Taxes, Rewards Cards, Energy Efficiency & Vegas [27:52m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week’s gas price update: $4.479

Before we got into the meat of the show, Talli made a quick announcement about her new health podcast, “BeingHealthy.tv. It’s a health podcast that will bring you health tips, news, motivation and ways to fit being healthy into your busy life. So, if you are interested in being healthy, please check it out and subscribe.

This week’s main topic seems like a simple one, but it’s one that so few couples actually practice. We talk about handling the family finance as a family, rather than just having one person handling them. We talk about why it is important, how it can help your finances and the possible negative consequences of not sharing them.
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 MOB #38 - Book Replacements & Sharing the Finances [28:12m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week’s gas price update: $4.499/gallon

We start off this week discussing Fourth of July sales. Then we discussed television service replacements. Here are the links to a few of the options we mentioned:
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 MOB #37 - Holiday Sales, Internet Entertainment & Scam Auctions [27:02m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we gave the gas price update first: $4.559/gallon

Then we jumped into the meat of the show and discussed the article “Bear Market Guide: Relax, Make Money” from Money Magazine. We talked about investing in a down market and why you should do it.
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 MOB #36 - Bear Market, the Fed Rates & the Cost of Advice [25:36m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This week we gave the local price updates that we were experiencing.

Gas Price: $4.539/gallon

We took a look at Vanguard’s week in review with their synopsis of economic indicators and David’s small insights into what they might mean.

Then we jumped into the meat of the show discussing a Money Magazine article “Life without plastic.” We spent some time digging into how living without plastic could be of benefit even to those that pay off their credit card balances at the end of every month.
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 MOB #35 - Life w/o Plastic [34:13m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download