Saving Money on Textbooks - College Savings

August 10, 2010

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Back in the day when I was in college one of the things I hated doing was shelling out a hundred bucks for a text book. The main reason I hated doing that was I knew that at the end of the year when I sold it (after all who [...]

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Saving Money on Concert Tickets

August 7, 2010

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Out of Gas Newsletter - Issue 93 August 7th, 2010
Hope your week went well. I can’t believe that Haley started back to school already… my how time flies.
Saving Money on Concert Tickets
We talked some earlier about our visit to Memphis. The reason we were going to Memphis was to go to a Justin [...]

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Five ways to save on back to school shopping

August 6, 2010

5 Ways to save money on Back to School Shopping

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Believe it or not Back to School is just around the corner. In fact many school districts where we live have already been to school for a few days.Here are some tips on saving money with your Back to School Shopping.
1. Keep [...]

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Review of the Doubletree Motel in Memphis TN

August 3, 2010

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We spent this past weekend in Memphis TN. We did it as a last fling before school starts… I can’t believe how the Summer flew by. We saved some money on the reservation by booking early and the best price we could get was thru hotels.com. One thing I can say about the [...]

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Saving Money on your Air Conditioning costs - Electric bills in the Summer

July 27, 2010

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Saving Money on your AC bills
I don’t know about where you live, but this Summer has been really hot in Kentucky. Not only is it hot but the humidity has been off the charts. Here are some ways that you can keep those bills in check.
1. Clean your filter. You want to clean [...]

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Shopping at the Mall of America Part 7

July 24, 2010

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The first place we stopped was the help desk and purchased the coupon book, with the coupon I believe that it was about five bucks. If you want to have fun in the amusement part, that is also a [...]

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Mall of America Fun Part 6

July 23, 2010

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To catch up with our adventures to Mall of America, click on the previous link.
We made it to our hotel at about 5pm or so. Our hotel offered free shuttle service every hour. We also asked the hotel desk folks if they had any discounts that would be useful for us [...]

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If you don’t have it… get it…today

July 20, 2010

Many of you have probably seen on the news about the flooding in SE Kentucky (Pike County), Pikeville is about an hour from where we live. There was a storm that went thru there Saturday night and dropped seven inches of rain in a few hours over portions of the county.  It doesn’t matter where [...]

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Mall of America - our Road trip continues Part 5

July 17, 2010

Out of Gas Newsletter - Issue 91 July 17th, 2010

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It’s been a hot one this week, like in much of the country. They say that June was one of the hottest months on record… I can believe that too.  Here’s a tip for cooling down I learned in the army. Take [...]

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Our Adventures at the mall of America - Part 4

July 16, 2010

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Our Great Adventure Continues
Traveling to Indiana
You can check out how our adventure here .
We started our trip on a Tuesday morning (early 3am or so). I enjoy driving in the mornings when there isn’t much traffic. We had everything packed and we had Kate (our GPS) programmed for the journey… eight hours to [...]

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