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How To Buy Some Time In Foreclosure – Ask For The Mortgage Note

February 25, 2009 Housing
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If you are facing foreclosure, one tactic you may wish to consider is to ask the Lender to produce your mortgage note.

Over the last few years, mortgages were sold from one firm to another, sometimes many times, and the original documentation may have gotten lost in the process.  If you can persuade the Judge to [...]

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Use CheapTweet To Get The Best Deals

February 24, 2009 Saving money
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CheapTweet scans Twitter for the best deals, coupons and sales that people are tweeting about.

How does it work?
CheapTweet lets users rate deals by saying It’s Cheap (it’s a good deal) or It’s Lame (it’s not a good deal). Deals move to the Cheapest Tweets section if they get enough votes.
CheapTweet also uses the power of [...]

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IBM – Transition To Teaching

February 24, 2009 Corporate
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IBM has been offering a Transition to Teaching program since 2006 – the program is aimed at current IBM employees who are passionate about teaching and would like to make a change.

IBM are focusing on Math and Science teachers for this program – this from their website:
“Building a cadre of well-trained math and science teachers [...]

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Grant A Wish at http://ewishingwell.com

January 15, 2009 Charity
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Is your garage, shed, or closet overflowing with items you no longer want or need? www.ewishingwell.com is a new website that provides a platform for people to start helping each other out by posting these unwanted items. Granting a wish is as simple as posting new or used items no longer needed or wanted. [...]

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Use Your “LEGs” – Local Economy Generators

January 14, 2009 Business
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I’m a freelancer in Phoenix and I recently wrote a column about my foodie group called LEGs – Local Economy Generators. We get a big group together once a month and go to an independently owned restaurant in our area of town. We all go out at other times individually, of course, but we think it [...]

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Use Your Credit To Help Others

January 14, 2009 Financial
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I just helped a friend of mine get by during no job and lean times by charging their public service bill so they could have heat/electricity for another month until they were in a position to pay me back.  They got the help they needed… I got extra miles on my credit card for the [...]

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Help Your Local Teacher

January 14, 2009 Charity
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I’d like to offer you a tip on how people can do something nice for their local school during touch economic times. Through Adopt-A-Classroom, the public and businesses can literally “adopt” a teacher of their choice and donate funds where 100% goes directly to the teacher. Donors receive an impact report exposing exactly what was [...]

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Trade Services / Share Resources

January 14, 2009 General Advice
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During the times of perceived crisis there are many things that people can do. Neighbors can join effort and share meals, clothes, new ideas, trade toys. Shared jobs can be organized instead of hiring out. For example: my husband can build things another friend’s husband can do taxes..so they trade services. Sharing of babysitting [...]

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