From Consumer Reports, a video on how to avoid identity theft, one of the biggest affronts to frugality ever (besides getting sick).
“Our Hustlers are going to demonstrate, for our secret cameras, how a con-artist can rig a cash-point with a device that will clone your cash-card and enable them to steal money, from your account….
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Entries Tagged as ‘Agregious affronts to frugality’
April 30, 2009
The Real Hustle – Card Reader: avoid getting your cash card info stolen
April 16, 2009
Which is the worst company in America? T-Mobster gets my vote!
In Agregious affronts to frugality news, my fave Web site The Consumerist has made a Worst Company In America bracket. And you get to vote!
A quote from a favorite movie of mine, Fast Food Nation, sums up my feeling about companies run by white collar Dons, such as AIG.
A rancher in the movie calls the [...]
April 5, 2009
Ritz Camera “Going out of Business” sale handled by shady hucksters. Beware!
Buyer beware! Don’t be had by sale signs if a Ritz Camera in your town is going out of business. Liquidation sales at over 300 Ritz Camera stores start today. The Consumerist reports that the snake oil salesmen who handled Circuit City’s liquidation will also be puttin’ on the Ritz. Liquidation handlers Great American Group [...]
April 1, 2009
Message to Blue Cross: I hate you
I despise Blue Cross for many of the same reasons I despise privatized health care in general. Namely, that private health care companies view coverage as a business loss, and therein lies the conflict of interest. You can’t help people and want to save money on them at the same time.
I despise Blue Cross more at the [...]
March 25, 2009
Plea to Ye Comptroller of the Cosmos: don’t frack us over
Ye Comptroller of the Cosmos, please don’t do that thing you sometimes do when you’re generous and sadistic at once. ‘Cuz my husband and I just cancelled our health insurance due to being broke. And I got a new job. And he might get a new job. So I’m just sayin’, don’t frack us over and [...]
March 23, 2009
Privatization of Chicago parking meters. And a future interview with The Parking Ticket Geek of The Expired Meter
My blood is boiling.
King Daley and his rubber stamp wielding alder-thiefs are running amok like never before. Chicagoans hear my battle cry.
What’s got me all riled like no ones biz-nass is the clumsy recent transfer of Chicago parking meters into private hands, coupled with the quadrupled rates. Talk about sticker shock. This is beyond an affront to frugality. It’s a [...]
March 21, 2009
Affront to frugality: the two margaritas I sucked down last night
Oops. But they were so so good. Loaded with tequila and calories and $8 each. Sometimes it’s necessary. Like when I get a new job. Like when my husband picks me up from work. And we don’t want to be confined within our apartment. And it’s spring. And maragitas remind us of our sexy Mexican [...]
February 15, 2009
An affront to frugality: The Federal Reserve.
Learn about the Federal Reserve. Watch this video:
http://blip.tv/file/958260/
