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Thanks to his meticulous budget tracking, the Swiss_Mouse can tell you he spend exactly $81.88 a week on eating out.   Now you might say that is an outrageous amount, but actually it really only represents about 1 sit down restaurant a  couple of fast food meals per week.   The Swiss_Mouse family has a lot of activities […]

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Recently the Swiss_Mouse and Mrs. Swiss_Mouse were going to run some errands.  They were dropping off the young mouse-ling with Swiss_Mouse Sr. and Grandma Swiss_Mouse.
When allowed to pick where they would like to get some fast food to take to the grand-mice, they thankfully did not respond “Burger King”.  Sadly, they chose McDonald’s.  Swiss_Mouse Sr.  […]

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Others will read this blog entry and say “The Swiss_Mouse is an idiot!”  But, these people are all trying to make internet millions off of google ads and affliate sales.  HEY so is the Swiss_Mouse, but there are few John Chow dot com moguls or even the site TechCrunch mentioned in his latest post. 
The Swiss_Mouse presents […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has several non-retirement and retirement investment accounts. This is not bragging like other bloggers (”OH I make a million every morning while I’m in my pajamas, losers!”). No, not at all. Just a fact. Mrs. Swiss_Mouse has retirement accounts at Schwab. Swiss_Mouse has accounts at Fidelity.
Swiss_Mouse and […]

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The Swiss_Mouse recently received a mailing from his mortgage company, Regions Mortgage. This mailing touted that he could enroll in a program to accelerate his mortgage payoff saving thousands of dollars and saving years of mortgage payments.
All this seemed rather familiar to the Swiss_Mouse, but he couldn’t quite put his little finger on what […]

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The Swiss_Mouse has many web ventures in the works, both personal and business.
The Swiss_Mouse likes to accumulate and consume cheddar, not give it away. So the Swiss_Mouse settled on 1and1.com as his personal webhosting service.
1and1.com is fairly inexpensive with beginner Linux hosting (including blogs) or Windows beginner hosting for just $2.99 a month. The […]

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Years ago, the Swiss_Mouse was tired of getting ripped off by AT&T on his long distance. Seeking out alternatives, the Swiss_Mouse came upon AmericanFone.
AmericanFone has a flat rate long distance fee of approximately 4.3 cents per minute. They have a low $2.00 monthly fee which is waived if you have a $20 usage bill.
When others […]

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(Originally a post by Pepper Jack, adapted by the Swiss_Mouse)
Pepper Jack likes to Save Money, so when I purchase an item, I want to know I paid the least amount of money for it possible. That is why I go to Boddit. Boddit takes all the other great deal sites and combines […]

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