This week’s quick Friday Faves highlight a few homegrown nontraditional charitable groups. Because they are grassroots startups and/or dedicated to providing a charitable service that is outside of the box your contribution will probably not be tax-deductible. However, donating the cost of a latte and a scone will do a lot of good:
Category Archives: Saving Money
Quick Shopping Tip For Smartphone Users
If you are a smartphone user who will need to choose between warm hands and using your touchscreen phone outside during the winter, stop by your nearest Five Below store. They have stretch knit gloves with conductive tips on both thumbs and index fingers for only $3! I tested them and the conductive material worked well with my iPhone’s screen.
Friday Faves: Contests and Kickstarter Projects I Like
Here’s another roundup of projects I’m supporting and contests I’m entering:
Kickstarter:
Do you look through the Mens and Boys clothing sections hoping to find items that vaguely fit your female figure? Get custom-fit shirts, vests, and blazers from this project:
Get some cool cigar box instruments:
Turn your iPod touch into a wifi hotspot with 500MB of free data per month (check their coverage map first to see if you are in it):
Still time to get a Ninja Standing Desk!
Contests:
Enter Engadget’s back to school givaway to win a bag full of electronic goodies – comment daily on each new post that appears at noon ET (see linked page for links to each post when they are live) through August.
Win a violin, bow, case, strings and accessories from D’Addario – enter once daily now through October 1st.
The Korg MicroKorg giveaway is still running through December – enter once daily.
Accessing Free Money You Already Have
With the departure of telephone booths from the landscape, the only publicly available spare-change-finding opportunity now is collecting and redeeming deposit bottles and cans (unless you follow my other tip). But you probably also have one or both of these other two auxiliary revenue sources in your own home: