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ATT out, TW in

*Rant Alert! Last week, owing to several issues that I had been having with AT&T, I finally decided to bid adieu to their UVerse TV service. I had been with Time Warner for a long long time and I just loved their service. Then, AT&T came out with an enticing offer (rebates etc!); so I [...]

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Money experiment: A little research yields a cheaper video card

Guys, Long time no see on the money experiment eh? Well, the money experiment is still kicking and screaming just that I haven’t been able to post updates as much I’d have liked to. We have been really busy campaigning for LSP lately. Last year, I had built a desktop for myself. I got some [...]

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The Money Experiment: Dining out is not so in!

The above graph pretty much tells the story but since I have the bragging rights for my Money Experiment, I’m going to use them anyways If you have been following my Money Experiment, you might already know that I have been using several different techniques to come up with ways to save more and spend [...]

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Coupons: They aren’t lame anymore

In my first writeup on the money experiment, I had talked about two things that had made deep cuts into my financial life. One was buying way more stuff than was needed a.k.a overextending that I have already talked about here. The other one was buying stuff by paying more. Honestly, this was one of [...]

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The dirty secret behind a balance transfer

Life is a beach and then you dive right? Well, tell you what? Loans are a bigger beach and diving is prohibited! The past 3 months or so, I have been trying really hard to get rid of my mammoth debt by cutting corners everywhere. I undertook the money experiment where I scraped about every [...]

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