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Home Swaps: Stay Free Next Vacation

house Even at discount, most hotels will wind up charging you hundreds of dollars for your stay. How about staying free in a fully furnished home or apartment for (nearly) free? You can do that if you let someone stay in your place while you are way. Here is how it works (and sites that can help you set up a home exchange).

10 Things Your Home Insurer Won't Tell You

Smart Money continues its series of dirty little secrets of various industries by looking at the home insurance business. Did you have a "clue", for example, that companies can check your claims history in a national database (so don't try lying on the application)!

Consumer Fun: Spot the Fake Logo

WalletPop has put together a 20-question quiz consisting of popular brand name logos. In each group, one logo is fake. Can you spot the design that was never used?


Consumer Quickies

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  • 4 Savings Mistakes that Cost More in the Long Run
  • Be a Smart Sunscreen Label Reader
  • Senator Investigates Mysterious Credit Card Charges
  • Because 1 in 5 Do #1 in the Pool...
  • Sellers Rush to Offer Cheaper Designer Fashions
  • What the GM Bankruptcy Will Mean for You
  • Credit Card Offers Drop; Fee-Based Offers Up
  • Some Big Brokerages Waive Fees to Retain Clients
  • Dog Can Sniff Out Bootlegged DVDs
  • These 9 Dishes Pile on the Calories pdf
  • Mortgage Help Programs Don't Always Help
  • Tips on Picking a Roofing Contractor
  • How Secure are AOL Passwords?
  • Analysis of Consumer Complaints about Privacy
  • Airline Seats Inch Closer to One Another
  • Walt Mossberg Reviews the Palm Pre
  • New Charges and Caps May Surprise Health Policy Owners
  • Chase Tinkers with Rewards Programs, Adds Fee
  • Court Finds that Crunchberries are Not Fruit
  • UK Court Says Pringles are Potato Chips, Thus Taxed
  • Tasters Choice Man on Label Sues Company for Using His Image
  • Study: Forced Arbitration Disadvantages Consumers pdf
  • 5 Summer Travel Deals (Mostly Overseas)
  • Sears Settles with FTC Over Secret Tracking
  • Best Buy to Offer Free Windows 7 Upgrades 6/26+
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