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Quick Links For Your Reading Enjoyment

Brett McKay — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:26:29 +0000

Here are a few posts that caught my eye recently and wanted to share with my readers.

What are your tipping rules? – Wise Bread. Wise Bread authors each give their take on the rules of tipping. As a former waiter, I try to be generous with my tips. I know the crap that waiters have to put up with.
Wise Bar Exam Advice Heard At Church- Legal Andrew. Andrew discusses a passage from Luke that talks about setting priorities in life.
16 Great, Healthy Dinners in 10 Minutes or Less- Zen Habits. Leo presents 16 quick and easy dinners. They also look really frugal.
From The Frugal Law Student Archives: Dinner Parties: Not So Frugal. My wife and I love to have dinner parties, but sometimes we go overboard with them. Keep the simple.

Back From Vermont

Brett McKay — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:20:59 +0000

Well, I got back from my week long trip to Vermont Monday night. My family and I had a really good time. The scenery was beautiful and we packed in a ton of activities while we were there. Activities included: mountain biking, visiting the Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory, and touring Calvin Coolidge’s birthplace.

I started my clerkship with the US Trustees office yesterday, so I haven’t had much time to write. However, I plan on busting out a few posts tonight so I have some stuff ready for the rest of the week. Until then, please check out these great links I’ve recently stumbled upon:

Maximize Productivity With Browser Tabs- Legal Andrew Andrew shares how he uses a nifty Firefox plugin to get the most out of tabbed browsing.
Procrastination+E-mail=Deadly Combination- LifeDev I’m a serial e-mail procrastinator. I’ve been known to check my e-mail every minute to see if I have gotten anything new. Big waste of time.
Why My Father Takes Out a Lighter and Burns $200 Each Month- The Simple Dollar Trent discusses the financial impact of his father’s smoking habit. Pretty interesting.

I’m Vermont Bound

Brett McKay — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:12:57 +0000

Tomorrow morning I’m leaving for a week long stay in Vermont. I’m pretty excited about the trip seeing how this will be my first time to visit the eastern US. I have posts in queue for while I’m gone, so no need to worry about missing out on your daily fill of The Frugal Law Student. Take care and have a Happy 4th of July!

The Frugal Law Student Month In Review- June 2007

Brett McKay — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 14:26:15 +0000

June was a great month for The Frugal Law Student. We had over 12,000 visitors plus several new subsribers. Thank you to all my readers as well as fellow bloggers who have helped spread the word about The Frugal Law Student

Most Popular Posts

Here are June’s most popular posts based on the number of visits:

Massive Personal Finance Resource List- This is what brought in most of the new traffic and I have JD Roth at Get Rich Slowly to thank for it. He was kind enough to include this post in his daily links. From there, it got the crap del.icio.used out of it and ended up at the top of the del.ico.us hot page for a day. When all was said and done, over 3,000 people came by in one day. Since then, I’ve had daily residual traffic to this post. Thaks, JD!
180 Money Saving Tips That Will Turn Your Life Around 180 Degrees- I wrote this in May, but it’s still a popular one. It was included in The Frugal Life newsletter recently. As a result, I had several new people stop by.
10 Ways To Make Money and Save Money On Facebook- As a big fan of Facebook, this was a fun post to write. Check out how you can take advantage of Facebook’s social network to help your bottom line.
Better Than Netflix- This post was written by my lovely wife, Kate. It’s about how the library is way better than Netflix. Not only can you get free books at the library, you can get free CDs and DVDs. Boo yah!

TEXT “Biggest Waste of Money” to 75794

Brett McKay — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:56:29 +0000

As regular viewer of MTV and VH1, I take notice of the advertisements that are shown regularly. The ones that seem to get the most play are the commercials hocking cell phone ring tones or horoscopes/jokes/numerology sent to your phone. The way these commercials work is that viewers text a message to a number, and instantly the viewer has the content advertised.

However, the commercial keeps the price of these useless services in the fine print. So, some hapless teenager or oblivious parent will be spending money on a product that they didn’t know cost money. Today, I tried to get a glimpse of how much it would cost me to have my horoscope sent directly to my cell phone. According to the fine print that was at the bottom of the screen for maybe two seconds, a month of horoscopes would cost $5. There were also some hidden fees that I couldn’t make out, so it probably costs more. I can’t believe people spend $5 dollars to get something they could get for free online.

Every time my wife and I see these commercials we always ask ourselves “Who actually buys this crap?” My guess is clueless teenagers. I’m glad I’m not a parent who has to pay a cell phone bill.

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