Reviews by zeusal1

zeusal1 says "Great way to invest" about Sharebuilder

zeusal1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:44:00 GMT

I bagan using Sharebuilder in January 2009. I have a 401K account through work that has been doing terrible over the last year like everyone else's is doing. My husband talked me into getting into the market with Sharebuilder on a small sacle now that the market is as close to zero as you can get. We started small with $100 a month and are now at $200 per month. I received a bonus at work and put it into the account and we decided to not try and guess individual stocks that would go up, so we picked some ETF's (Exchange Traded Fund). We feel like we almost know what we are doing, as the market has started to move in the right direction for us, and if it does this for another month or two, I can see us getting back everything that we lost in our 401K's this year, and getting ahead by next year. The forced savings of automatic investing makes it feel like we never received the money to start, and it doesn't hurt as much. We have hardly had to change how we live to allow for...

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zeusal1 says "good deal" about Sam's Club - Advantage Discover

zeusal1 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:36:02 GMT

I use the Sam's Club Discover Card for almost everything that I charge because of the cash back feature up to 2%. I stopped using cash but pay it off monthly. I only use my Visa or Mastercard ones when the Discover card is not accepted, which isn't very often. There are Discover card versions that give 5% cash back, but mine is tied to my Sam;s Club membership, so I use at all Sam's Clubs, and it comes automatically with my annual membership. It is also good at Walmart's, but cannot be used for the Murphy Gas Stations that are at Walmart's. For that you have to have a Walmart Card. We travel a lot and use it all of the time. We used to use our Visa Card because o the rwards points for RCI and our timeshare memberships, but the cash back from Discover is a lot better deal. We even charged funeral expenses to the card back in the fall, and received our 2% back for that as well. Last year, we received almost $1,000 back, which paid for almost one month's charges on the card....

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