Blogging Away Debt

A Cynical Review, Is Peer to Peer Lending Bad and You are Standing In Your Own Way

My poor laptop. It was in the direct path of some spilled soda pop. Not a lot spilled on it, but there was just enough to cause some sticky keys on the keyboard. This weekend I’ll have to back everything up and then try to give it a good cleaning.

I also plan on finishing our taxes and working on our will. My life sounds pretty exciting…doesn’t it LOL?

Here’s a few articles that caught my eye this week:

My Money Blog has a cynical review of Maxed Out (movie about credit cards). I guess you can watch the movie for free online. When I get a chance I hope to watch it.

Gather Little by Little explains why he thinks peer to peer lending is a bad idea.

Blunt Money explains how you are standing in your own way. I agree that great things can happen when you change your attitude.

Cashing in Change

by Tricia

During our last visit with my family, my mom decided to give my son some change and a while ago my son “cashed” it in to the bank of mom and dad. They were sitting around the house so yesterday I decided it was time to roll them up and cash them in at the bank.

Well, you learn something new every day. My husband gave the penny rolls to the bank teller and she told him not to roll the change. They plop them in their coin counter machine and it does all of the work. My husband asked the question that was on my mind when he told me about this…”Does it cost anything?”

It turns out that it doesn’t cost anything at my bank. I’ve heard that some banks do charge for cashing in change, so we are fortunate. Especially because we do not have any Coinstar machines near us.

So before you spend the time counting (and double counting if you are like me!) and rolling your change, give your bank a quick call to see if you need to do that. I could have saved some time if I had known about my bank’s change cashing policy.

How much did we cash in? $9.00 worth of change ($7.00 in pennies). Now we’ll have some cash on hand for my son’s allowance 🙂