Secrets Of A Stingy Scoundrel Giveaway!!!

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I hope you’ve read my review of Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel and gotten excited about it because I’m giving a copy away courtesy of the publisher, Skyhorse Publishing!

There are three ways to enter, and you can enter each way once. That means you get three entries, doing all three increases your chances of winning. Here’s what you do:

Comment – Leave a comment on this post with a valid email address telling us your favorite dirty little money-grubbing secret. No extra points for creative ideas, but if there are enough good ones I might turn it into a post.

Tweet – Have a Twitter account? Tweet the following message “Win a free copy of Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel from @the_weakonomist http://bit.ly/scoundrelbook #ScoundrelBook”. Don’t have a Twitter account? Create one, follow me, and tweet the message!

Subscribe – Many of my readers keep up with the blog through an RSS reader. By subscribing to my feed you get the opportunity to enter again. What will happen is on Monday, October 12 at 11 AM Eastern I’ll send a post to you in the reader. If you aren’t subscribed you won’t get this message. To enter just send me an email with a secret message I’ll give you in the subject line. That’s it! Don’t know what RSS is? Learn more about it here or subscribe with email here.

But wait! There’s one more way to enter! To enter this way you must have a blog. You can enter by creating a post about Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel. Just link to this post and the Amazon page for the book so that your readers can learn more about the book. A small paragraph with a few sentences will do fine. After that send me an email with the link to your post using the subject “ScoundrelBook Giveaway”. The email address is Philip [at] weakonomics [dot] com. Note to bloggers, you can use your own affiliate link to the Amazon page if you’ve got one.

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So how do I decide who wins? Let’s assume I get 10 comments, 13 tweets, 8 subscribers and 2 blogs (I hope I get more!) that’s a total of 33 entries. Numbers 1-10 will be the comments, 11-23 are the tweets, 24-31 for subscribers, and 32-33 for the blogs. It will all go in order of submission. I’ll then use random.org to select the winner. In this example random.org gave me #28, which would be the 5th subscriber submission.

Oh yeah, let’s not forget the rules. You must live in the United States and be 18 or older. You can’t enter in the same method more than once. I will be policing this in the comments, twitter, subscriptions, and the blogs. The contest will run for 8 days. I will stop receiving submissions via all 4 methods at 5:00 PM Eastern Time on Wednesday, October 14th. The winner will be notified via email within 48 hours. If the winner is a Twitter user, they will be notified via Twitter using the @reply method. If you follow me, I will direct message you. If the winner does not respond within 48 hours of notice I will use random.org to pick a new winner.

Though the winner and I will discuss this privately, what we’ll do is I’ll get your shipping info and send this to the publisher. The publisher will then send you the book. I will serve as the point of contact between the winner and author. Don’t worry reader, I won’t remember your address, I can’t even remember mine.

So get to commenting, tweeting, subscribing, and blogging!

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http://www.winterdelight.com jwier92

We join our Amish neighbors and do not use our dryer. Also I like to win free stuff when ever possible.
.-= jwier92´s last blog ..Contentment: Set Sail =-.
http://www.clarifinancial.com Aaron

Stop commuting to work (whenever possible). I’m saving about $400/m in gas, car maintenance, and lunches out because I don’t commute every day. I think my wardrobe costs less too.
http://www.financialsamurai.com Financial Samurai

What has saved me probably several thousand dollars a year is to simply ask if you can have something for free.

Yesterday, we were on the beach and there was a 20 team sand castle competition. We asked Team #8 if we can have some pizza and drinks, and they said yes. That’s $20-30 saved for lunch that day.

I asked if my tennis club pro can replace my broken $200 racquet, and he said sure, and gave me a loaner, and will replace.

I asked Best Buy to exchange my $1,000 subwoofer b/c of an annoying squealing sound, and they said sure, even though it was technically beyond the 3 yr warranty, there was a loophole of another 5 yr warranty which they used.

That’s $1,150 in the past 2 months alone, just by asking.

Cheers
.-= Financial Samurai´s last blog ..It’s Been 35 Days Since I Last Spent Any Money On Junk =-.
http://www.myjourneytomillions.com Evan

I have no idea if this counts, but everytime I have a party, I make sure I don’t throw out the cans. I recycle them…good for the environment and good for the change jar I keep.
.-= Evan´s last blog ..Buying Life Insurance on a Child’s Life =-.
http://www.beatingbroke.com Beating Broke

Recycle leftovers. Every second day or so, use the leftovers from the previous days to make your meal. It helps a little if you plan ahead, but if you get creative, you can make some really great meals.
.-= Beating Broke´s last blog ..Quicken Parent Company Intuit to buy Mint =-.
http://www.corporatebarbarian.com Corporate Barbarian

Brown-bagging my lunch. I’ve been doing this for years, and I’ve saved a substantial amount each week. I used to blow about 7 bucks for a sandwich and drink every day. Now, I take about 5 minutes each morning to make my own lunch. I figured out that over the course of 5 years, I’ve saved about 5 thousand dollars. If I extrapolate the numbers over 20 years, at 3% interest, that’s over 27 grand. 5 minutes a day over 20 years is 344 hours. Divide $27,000 by 344 and you get my “hourly wage” for making my lunch – $78.49. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity!
.-= Corporate Barbarian´s last blog ..A Game of Inches =-.
http://under1000permonth.blogspot.com/ Emily @ Under$1000PerMonth

We skip cable and Netflix. With all the free entertainment online, why pay for it?
.-= Emily @ Under$1000PerMonth´s last blog ..Kids in the Kitchen =-.
http://www.vickiboykis.com Vicki

Love the book cover!

Since my husband and I are both Jews, we try to keep it real cheap, per family tradition, and that essentially comes down to the question, “Do I want this more, or do I want to save for a downpayment for a house more?”

This includes:

No heating/air conditioning unless absolutely necessary: Open windows at night in the summer cool us down and sweaters warm us up

Buying generic brand at the grocery store and eating at home as much as possible

and

Buying things online through Amazon because we get Amazon points on our credit card which we can redeem every couple of months for free stuff.
KC

I keep dividend bearing stocks I want to own in my Roth and growth stocks I want to own in my taxable accounts. You won’t pay taxes on your dividends if they are in a tax protected account. Your taxed account will generate less income for you to pay taxes on at the end of the year. I still own a good mix of stocks this way and I minimize what I pay in taxes.
Lisa

I make my own laundry soap!
OAB

7 words: “Is that the best you can do?” Sometimes the answer is yes, sometimes it gets you a better discount. I got a great deal on the last cell phone I bought using this.
http://www.lrtaxprep.com/blog Bruce

So, I haven’t written my blog for a while but this could be a good “get back into it.”

So lets see a tax accountant could make good use of this publication. Please inter me in the contest and thank you @moneymanagement from twitter for pointing me your way.
.-= Bruce´s last blog ..American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009: Information Center =-.

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