Taking your Checkbook Online: As the name suggests, ClearCheckbook is an online checkbook, expense management, and cash flow manager. That may sound intimidating but it’s essentially Quicken on the web complete with graphs, categories and reports. Best of all, it is entirely free and

http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2007/02/taking-your-checkbook-online.html

50 Ways to Save at the Grocery Store: I am going to pick 5 tips from their list and I am going write them down. I will then staple that list to my grocery list so that I have a physical reminder of the things I want to implement.

http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2007/02/50-ways-to-save-at-grocery-store.html

Items to always buy Generic: Their analysis is based on store’s in New York, however, my wife confirms that these similar to what she sees in the Chicagoland area as well.

http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2006/11/items-to-always-buy-generic.html

Just use Normal Soap - it’s cheaper and it works: In 2005, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel concluded that there is “no added benefit” from using antimicrobial products over plain soap and water.

http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2006/10/just-use-normal-soap-its-cheaper-and-it.html

The Cheap Menu, Feed Your Family for $45 per week: Today I happened to see an actual menu that details a week’s worth of meals large enough to feed 4 people for only $45. To me, that sounds pretty cheap.

http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2006/09/cheap-menu-feed-your-family-for-45-per.html

Reminder: Get your $30 from the IRS for Long Distance Tax Amendment : The Internal Revenue Service, affectionately known as the IRS, is returning $30-$60 to each person/household that paid for Long Distance phone service between March of 2003 and July of 2006.

http://dumblittleman.blogspot.com/2006/09/reminder-get-your-30-from-irs-for-long.html

Watching TV without paying for cable TV service:

http://www.news.com/Watching-TV-on-the-laptop-and-on-the-cheap/2100-1026_3-6213895.html

Second Sight by Alan Edward Nourse

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22997

Love and Friendship by Jane Austen http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22954

Mansfield Park by Jane Austen http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22962

Persuasion by Jane Austen http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22963

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22964

Web site vConvert.net grabs videos from YouTube and converts them to compatible formats for your iPod/iPhone, mobile phone, PSP, and more. What’s more, if you only want the audio from a video, vConvert can convert just the audio to an MP3. We’ve seen desktop apps that promise the same conversions (and one other web site), but if you don’t want to install an application to handle this simple transcode, vConvert is a very good and simple alternative. Just give it a YouTube URL, select what you want to convert it for, then click Convert and Download. After a minute or two of processing, you should see a download link for the video.

 I can’t tell you how disappointed I was when I realized I couldn’t SAVE a youtube video to put on my pda and watch later…

 Alex saw this on a sign, and loved it.

This made me tear up laughing…it’s that awful/great: