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This is Part 2 of a very popular article I wrote last year on how to shrink your Levi 501 XX Shrink to Fit jeans. The original article can be found here and I recommend reading the very helpful comments from the readers.
The first article I wrote on this topic was after a few tries [...]

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Want $25? That’s an easy question. Check out Revolution Money Exchange; they are giving away $25 just for signing up for an account with them.
They are very much like a PayPal because their whole mission is to make transferring money from person to person easy. So if you and your friends and roommates are on [...]

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Today I made three personal finance related decisions today that not only made me feel better about my money but will end up making me more money years from now. What’s even cooler is the whole experience only took me an hour or two.

I called my bank to reduce my loan rate and credit card [...]

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The city of Illinois recently banned smoking in all public places which includes bars apparently. The law is similar to the one passed in California a few years ago. Honestly, all I know is that people can now be fined or arrested for smoking bars and restaurants. I don’t think this was the right decision [...]

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Update 2008-05-13: Due to the popularity of this article and the helpful discussion in the comments with readers I have posted an updated article with new tips and approaches to achieving the best jeans you’ll ever own.
I love Levi’s 501 Shrink to Fit jeans and have done the shrinking thing a bunch of times. Some [...]

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I had the opportunity to get intimate with dirt during my move last week and I’m here to pass on some tips. Cleaning is one of those joyous tasks that everyone wished they could do more often instead of having that stupid sex or eating ice cream. Regardless of how odious a task it may [...]

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I had what appears to be an extraordinary lesson in the power of a resume. During my most recent job search, I went from one extreme of nobody acknowledging any of my communications to the other of companies cold-calling me offering me jobs based only on reading my resume (some of those companies were the [...]

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Sometimes I tell people that I got into college by writting an essay on bubbles, and understandably few believe me. While going through some old files on my computer recently I found that essay and have pasted it here. For all those who are applying to college I hope this is helpful to show you [...]

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A long, but interesting look at if HIV is the cause of AIDS and why there have been no conclusive studies done to support that hypothesis. It is worth watching.
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As I mentioned in another post, I have been learning what it means to be a wiki administrator. MediaWiki is a blank canvas. It comes with some powerful tools, and some themes, but the power of the software is really in it’s flexability and extensibility. The software itself is quite small, but can easily be [...]

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