July, 2009

Last Chance to Qualify for iPod Giveaway

If you are interested in winning one of two iPods, today is the last day you can qualify. We’re celebrating Consumerism Commentary’s sixth anniversary by hosting a “scavenger hunt.” Four clues have been scattered throughout the website and media throughout the past couple of weeks. The details for the scavenger hunt are here. If you are ...

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FICO Suing the Credit Bureaus Over VantageScore

Fair Isaac, the company that created and owns what is generally known as your credit score, is suing Experian and TransUnion, two of the three credit reporting bureaus, for creating a competing product that blurs the line between the “real” credit score and the others. The third credit reporting bureau, Equifax, agreed to settle with ...

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Money and Your Honey

We asked MainStreet Financial Planning President James F. Ludwick for his tips on how to reach a compromise when money conflicts arise in a relationship. Here is his advice: Read more about Money and Your Honey...

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Buying Food: Grocery Shopping Tips from 1950

The American housewife! Who has a more important or more responsible occupation? Wife, mother, laundress, counselor, maid, chef, purchasing agent. All of these are her duties at one time or another. So begins Buying Food, a home economics film from 1950. Buying Food is fascinating not just for its shopping tips, but also for the inside ...

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See the Katie Holmes "So You Think You Can Dance" Video

She escapes so that she can DANCE! I'm too sexy for my Xenu! (Photo: Examiner.com) For some time, we all wondered whether Katie Holmes was going to be let out of the house. Sure, the bright lights of the paparazzi would occasionally catch a glimpse of her, but it’s possible that Tom was simply allowing her out ...

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