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Deal: Four Museum or Movie Tickets from American Express for $3 to $8

Posted April 20, 2008 - 17:21 by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Deals and Coupons, Food and Drink, Art and Leisure, Deals

If you are an American Express member, a promotion is currently going on called Museum or Movie. The deal is that if you make a certain number of purchases at participating merchants during 4/1/2008 and 5/31/2008 you can redeem the receipts for four complimentary movie tickets or museum tickets. If there is no movie theatre or museum location near you, they will send you a $40 Amex gift card. Here are a few ideas as to how you can take advantage of this deal for $3 to $8.

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Holiday Lessons Learned: Advice To Avoid Rip-Offs NYC

Posted December 28, 2007 - 14:02 by Joann Hong

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This holiday season has been rough for me. I moved out to New York for a few months and thought I'd be set with my savings and supplementary, lucrative temp work. However, at the approach of the New Year I still felt the financial strains. Looking back now, I want to hit my head at some of the foolish mistakes I could of avoided as a city newbie. I've learned that you've got fast to be quick city -- I mean this in a financially saavy way-- and hopefully my experiences with rip offs can help those who are planning a trip or a move to NYC avoid learning the hard way.

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Five Easy Steps to Keeping Track of Expenses for the Self-Employed

Posted September 27, 2007 - 20:22 by Nora Dunn

Taxes, Small Business Resource Center

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I have had as many as five separate businesses at once to keep track of, including proper accounting of expenses for tax purposes. And it takes me no more than 5 minutes per week to do.

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