Someone recently mentioned in passing discovering their name and associated money in their state unclaimed property database, and out of curiosity I plugged my name in to http://www.missingmoney.com/ just to see what could be seen. There's at least one entry that looks suspiciously like ( Read more... )

Well that's a pleasant surprise.

I'd completely forgotten that I'd signed up for Ebates until an email just showed up in my inbox notifying me that they'd sent me some money. I could use more surprises of the "hey, have some cash!" variety.

The credit card with the second-highest APR will be paid off completely next Friday, and the others are no longer anywhere close to their limits. (We'll leave aside that some of that is because one of them inexplicably raised my limit by something like 50%. Yeesh.) Go me ( Read more... )