How to Make Your Own Homemade All-Purpose Household Cleaner – For Pennies! Do you buy special cleaning products for every surface in your home?
Does the kitchen get a different cleaner than the bathroom? How about your appliances? Every major company selling these products tries to market a different bottle of their cleaner for different purposes, but I use the exact same one for everything in my house. And the best part? I make a completely non-toxic one with very simple ingredients all by myself for only pennies instead of $2.99 and up per bottle. Here are the ingredients: 1. 2. 3.
So what else do you need? The first thing I did was fill it up with water, and then empty the water into a measuring cup to see how much liquid it held. 2/3 water1/3 white vinegar2 short squirts of Dr. After putting the three ingredients in the squirt bottle, I shook it up really good and put it to use cleaning my kitchen. Try making your own all-purpose natural cleaner like the one I made above, and see the difference in both your wallet and the health of your home. Getting The Highest Interest Rate from CDs - Certificates of Deposit vs High Yield Savings. Photo: Dazzie D Bank CDs are about as exciting as Perry Como CDs.
You put some money in. Wait a year, or two, or five. At the end, you get your money back, plus a little interest. It’s like the world’s slowest, least-risky slot machine. Or are you? A number of financial bloggers and mainstream news outlets have recently noticed something: the early withdrawal penalties charged on long-term CDs are puny.
Take the ten-year CD from Discover Bank, for example. Rarely is anything in the investment world so black-and-white: nobody should buy a 2-year CD. I learned about this idea from the blog of Allan Roth, a CPA and author of the book How a Second-Grader Beats Wall Street. I initially dismissed this is a sneaky trick, but now I’m convinced: nearly everybody who has cash in savings should be storing some of it in a long-term CD. Be careful out there Investors are looking for safety. Meanwhile, a few days ago I bought a 5-year CD from Ally Bank. Here’s why. A bank backlash? Fine print. Groupon Opens API to Help Developers Share the Wealth. Groupon, which calls itself a “social commerce site,” is one of many online services that help consumers pool their buying power to get great deals.
However, few companies can share Groupon’s experience of attracting $135 million dollars from the same venture capital funds that helped grow Facebook and Zynga. Groupon’s success is based on a simple business plan – advertise a daily, discounted offer from a local business, with the catch that the offer is only valid if a certain amount of users purchase it immediately. If enough users accept the service at the advertised price, businesses are guaranteed customers, while Groupon collects a small slice of the revenue. Groupon provides many ways to alert users of new deals, but both consumers and businesses benefit by having discount specials advertised in as many ways as possible. To help third-party developers and affiliate members get the word out about its daily specials, Groupon has released a publicly available API. Textbook Rentals Growing, Saving Students Hundreds a Semester. BookRenter.com offers students the chance to save hundreds on textbook costs a semester.
Students rejoice, the Netflix of textbooks has arrived to bring you (somewhat) lower costs It's always fun to see a clever business model cooked up and delivered to the masses. That's the case with BookRenter an enterprising startup that aims to become the Netflix of textbooks, helping college students everywhere stay on budget. The scheme arose amid record high prices for college texts. Some textbooks retail for $200 or $300, even. BookRenter looks to remedy that. The scheme is a win-win for all involved. After $6M USD in preliminary funding, BookRenter just scored $10 million in a Series B financing round.
Currently, the site has 75 university partners including the University of Texas at Austin, North Carolina State University, the University of Memphis, the City College of San Francisco, and the University of San Diego. BookRenter isn't the only textbook rental service in town, though.