One way to keep from throwing money away is to collect your change. I personally use old 1 liter bottles of soda (they have wide mouths) to keep change in, and then go redeem them when they are full. Most people associate change sorters with CoinStar, which charges over 9% just to sort [...]

An article at the Motley Fool provides tips and strategies for preparing as best you can for an unthinkable disaster:

Preparation is the best defense against the demons of nature and other unforeseen disasters. While a beekeeper’s suit or a personal bomb shelter might help you rest easily at night, there are more practical ways to [...]

Sally Deneen of Environmental Magazine gives tips on how to recycle commonly discarded household items:

Don’t throw away those exercise videos and ubiquitous AOL CDs. Jim Williams wants you to mail old videotapes and CDs to him, so that more than 40 disabled staffers at his ACT Recycling in Columbia, Missouri can recycle them. And, oh, [...]

Although I already do this online using online banking, BillQ offers a way to manage bills online.

billQ is a new web-based application that gives you an easy way to keep track of your bills. With billQ, you can make sure you always know exactly what you have to pay, and when you have to pay [...]