Get Paid for Your Old Cell Phone

PaceButler is offering a program in which it will buy your old cell phones paying up to $50 (even more for iPhones). The process is simple.

1. Gather your old cell phones.
2. Print a FREE shipping label from PaceButler.
3. Box and ship your phones.
4. PaceButler will cut you a check within 4 business days of receiving your phone.

But don’t expect to get rich. Most phones are only paying a few bucks. My Treo 650 is worth only about $5. But it’s $5 more than I have letting it sit in my junk drawer.

Besides helping individuals get money for their old phones, PaceButler also has a fundraising program whereby organizations can collect old phones from members of the community and receive money back.

PaceButler provides information on how you can recycle or donate your phone if you’d rather do that.

Are You Using Your Work Time Wisely?

Over at Lifehacker there is a simple script that can help you stay on track with your work projects. The scrip will provide a pop-up every 20 minutes asking you if you’re on task. While such an application could get annoying, if you find that you waste time surfing the net, Twittering, or reading about the latest celebrity gossip, it can help get you refocused on work and thereby improve your productivity.

To learn more or get the script, visit LifeHacker.

Review Before You Buy

In a tight economy, its more important than ever to make your money go as far as possible. Part of that is making affordable choices. But it also involves making informed choices. ConsumerSearch.com has a great resource where you can read reviews of the products you’re thinking of buying.  It searches the net for product reviews in several categories, analyzes the reviews, and then recommends the best picks.  Not only does it suggest the best picks, but you can see where the reviews came from and what they said. And if you want to buy the product in question, it provides links to at least one, but sometimes several online stores.

While finding information on the Internet is easy, it can be time consuming to find and visit multiple sites looking for reviews. ConsumerSearch.com makes it quick an easy by synthesizing the reviews into one spot. Visit ConsumerSearch.com to learn more.