Daily Archives: October 8, 2008

WaMu/Chase Dropping Their Interest Rate

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 8, 2008
I just learned from Flexo at Con­sumerism Com­men­tary who learned from Five Cent Nickel who heard from a reader, William, that Wash­ing­ton Mutual is drop­ping the inter­est rate for their on-line sav­ings accounts. It’s true.  I imme­di­ately logged into my WaMu account and checked.  Sure enough both my account and The Daughter’s shows an APY of [...]
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$$: Gas, Co-Pay, & Political Donation

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 8, 2008
Doc­tor Co-Pay — $25.00 I started my day the way every­one should — with a 20-minute cooling-my-heels ses­sion in my doctor’s office. The rea­son for the appoint­ment:  to get a referral/prescription for a new sleep study test.  I wasn’t sure which type of sleep study I needed (a cou­ple of years ago I had two tests — one that [...]
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Politics

By Suburban Wife | Published: October 8, 2008
I don’t con­sider myself to be a par­tic­u­larly polit­i­cal per­son.  This is due, in large part, to the fact that I have always felt so incred­i­bly con­flicted between my socially pro­gres­sive ide­o­log­i­cal lean­ings and my quite-conservative per­sonal val­ues.  The Hus­band jokes about my schiz­o­phrenic soci­o­log­i­cal and polit­i­cal beliefs.  My own sis­ter assumed for over 20 [...]
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