20SomethingFinance Highlights:

• Top 10 Cities for Young Professionals: My take on Kiplinger’s picks of the top 10 cities for young people. Very surprised to see my home town make the list.
• Tracfone Review: A review of the prepaid wireless phone company Tracfone and comparison to another prepaid wireless company that Tracfone owns, Net10.
• Unemployment Benefits Extended: A reader poll that asks whether or not you agree with the government’s move to extend unemployment benefits beyond the state standard of 26 weeks.
• I also ran a post that highlights the top 7 iPad personal finance apps on Mint.com.

Other Personal Finance Highlights & Oddities:

• The Cost of Convenience: Mini Bar Pricing (mint): A fun infographic that looks at how much those fun little bottles of liquor and Toblarone’s are costing you. Patron Tequila looks like a bargain!
• 10 Unusual Uses for Duct Tape (wisebread): 10 how-to videos showing how to use duct tape to make common things you use.
• How to Turn a Washing Machine Into a Firepit (instructables): A pretty cool DIY how-to that will teach you how to turn scrap metal into something useful.
• How to Can Tomatoes (metacafe): It’s about that time, right? Now, only if I had some tomatoes!

Deals:

• Earn a $200 gift certificate to Restaurant.com when you sign up for the Citi Forward® Card and make $100 in purchases by 9/15/10. Note: this is a very solid credit card that offers no annual fee, cell phone insurance, identity protection, and at least 1% rewards on all purchases.
• Get up to $75 bonus cash with EverBank when you sign up for new high yield accounts. Everbank consistently offers up some of the highest interest yields in the banking industry.

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