If there is one thing I hate, it is looking at the phone bill and seeing a charge for $1.95 or more for directory assistance calls.  When I am at home, I can easily jump online and search for a phone number, but when I am out and about or at a stoplight, surfing the net is not so easy yet.

Well Google once again steps up and offers a FREE service.  Yes FREE.  What's the catch I immediately ask.  None that I can find.  So I try it.  It has got to suck.  Nope.  Worked fine for me.  And it is FREE.  A Sea Of Money key word!!!  So try it right now.... 1-800-GOOG-411.

** Savings  $1.95 * Number of Directory Assistance Calls or the ones I would of made if I wasn't so cheap, but instead I insisted ondriving around lost.

Since our last article on Priceline.com's Name your Own Price article, we have used Priceline 3 times.  The first stay was at a 3 star hotel  in a major city which turned out to be excellent in service and location.  We paid slightly over $100 for 2 days during a busy weekend.

This year I tried again and I got the same hotel (but it was renamed the Doubletree) during the 4th of July weekend for $75.  I then bid for another hotel downtown a month and a half in advance and got a Marriott for $90.  The going best rate I could find was $215.

You have to be careful because you can become a little to enthusiastic!  Sometime I want to bid for a hotel just to see if I can get a bargain.  Well in the future I plan to just bid for a hotel and if we get a great deal we will make a mini vacation of it.

One other thing to be aware of is if you win, your credit card is charged right away and you cannot cancel.  I think you can buy cancellation insurance for particular emergencies.

After I win the bid, I call the hotel to make sure I can get a two bed non-smoking.  They treat me like any other customer and not like someone who got a bargain.

So if you know you are going to a particular city or if you like to hang out where you live near, try Priceline and name your own price.  It is fun and you save money.

Name Your Own Price® & Save up to 50% on Hotels!

***Savings example $125 x 2 rooms x 2 nights = $500

We honestly cannot say enough about Overnight Prints.  They are without a doubt fantastic.  We have used them to make postcards and brochures for the past year.  The quality of the cards is amazing, the service is great and the delivery is fast.

We are not kidding at all.  If you need high quality printing done at amazing prices SeaofMoney.com recommends Overnight Prints.  No doubts here.

This is a good article we found on CNN.com about a family that is frugal and how they do it. 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/04/03/frugal.strategies.ap/index.html

I have heard some things about getting paid to shop.  As I was reading a book on home businesses, I came upon this person who started her business around helping people to take advantage of this opportunity.  We tracked down their website and here it is.  It looks like an interesting way to bring in that bit of income that could make our lives a little more easier.  All by shopping!

  It's Fun and Easy To Get Paid To Shop

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