money
CostOfSmoking Calculator Motivates You to Quit [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Freeware application CostOfSmoking helps you understand just how much money you've lost to smoking over the lifetime of your habit. The end goal of your improved understanding of the...
Flipswap Trades Your Cell or iPod for Cash or Charity [Cell Phones]
Web site Flipswap makes it easy to sell, donate, or recycle your old cell phone or iPod. We've highlighted similar services in the past, like previously mentioned Celltrade, but Flipswap has a few...
DIY Dollar Bill Money Clip [Wallet Hacks]
Lifehacker reader Scott keeps his wallet slim by turning a simple dollar bill into a magnetic money clip. All you need is a magnet or two, some steel plates, and something to affix it all to your...
Get a Free Monthly Credit Score at Credit Karma (and Four Other Spots) [Personal Finance]
If you've already gotten your free, once-a-year credit report but want to see fresher numbers, CreditKarma, a free credit-tracking site, can give you month-to-month estimates without affecting your...
Top 10 Ways to Trick Yourself into Saving Money [Lifehacker Top 10]
Good money management is a mental exercise in self-regulation and focusing on the long-term goal, even when you're sure you just can't go on another day without buying that Kindle or MacBook. Even...
W-4 Assistant Takes the Guesswork Out of First-Day Forms [Work]
As simple as it may seem at a glance, the W-4 form, used to determine how much comes out of a regular paycheck, can be downright confusing to first-time job getters, or anyone who hasn't filled one...
Five Best Personal Finance Tools [Hive Five]
Whether you've got an investment portfolio the size of Texas or you're just trying to keep a balanced checkbook, nothing's more useful than a well made personal finance application. The hard part is...
Form W-4 Assistant Takes the Guesswork Out of First Day Forms [Work]
As simple as it may seem at a glance, the W-4 form, used to determine how much comes out of a regular paycheck, can be downright confusing to first-time job getters, or anyone who hasn't filled one...
Best Personal Finance Tools? [Hive Five Call For Contenders]
April 15th may seem like a long trip around the calendar, but there's nothing worse than getting there and realizing you haven't kept a close enough eye on your finances. Nobody likes the extra...
Chart Your Investments with Google Spreadsheet [Google Spreadsheets]
Techie Leonard Lin publishes his investment asset allocation in a Google Spreadsheet which employs the super-useful GoogleFinance formula for live-updating stock prices in-sheet. [via]
Set Up a Complete Budget with Your Online Bank [How To]
Personal finance blogger Trent knows a thing or two about putting aside a little money each month and avoiding fees and late payments. If you've been meaning to really utilize all the tools your...
Think Twice Before Paying for Credit Protection [Credit]
Security expert Bruce Schneier takes a look at services like LifeLock—you know, the one where the CEO gives out his social security number in the advertisements—and states that while the...
Glassdoor Gives Insider Reports of Salaries and Work Conditions [Career]
Newly-launched job-scoping site Glassdoor.com aims to become a central repository of salary reports, company gripes and reviews, and other data about companies with a share-and-share-alike approach....
Easy Ways to Save Money on Gas [Saving Money]
The U.S. national average gas price is now up to $4 a gallon, so unless you live in one of the few metropolitan areas that have a robust public transit system, you've likely already spent quite a...
Do Subscriptions Really Save You Money? [Ask The Readers]
Personal finance blogger Ramit Sethi calls out what he sees as the expensive self-delusion of subscriptions at his I Will Teach You To Be Rich blog. Sethi says we over-estimate how much we really get...
