Banking

• Corrupt Banking System : A video presentation explaining the current banking system and its problems
• High Yield Savings Accounts : A collection of accounts with high interest rates, updated bi-weekly.

Mortgage

• Mortgage Calculator : This page lets you calculate what your mortgage payments are/ will be.

Education

• Ababon’s Was it Worth it Program : A convenient program to determine whether furthering your education will be monetarily worth it.

• Rate My Professors : An guide to the pros and cons of professors, written and evaluated by other students. Know what to expect, or just vent about what you went through.

Credit & Privacy

• Credit & Privacy links: where to get your free credit reports without hassle or strings, opt out of ‘pre-approved’ credit card offers and stop unsolicited telemarketing calls.

Gas/Petrol

• Oil : What’s in a barrel of crude oil?

• Dumb Hybrids : See how Eco-friendly your used car is compared to a Prius

• Gas Price Trackers : Sites with up-to-date Gas Prices.

• Driving Cost Calculators : Sites that calculate how much it will cost (in terms of gasoline) to drive from point A to point B.

Travel

• Airline Vouchers : Some tips on getting airline vouchers during travel.

• Air Fare Watchdog : A user generated site for cheap airline flights. Reviewed by the website and constantly up to date. Also features Jetblue and Southwest, unlike other flight aggregating sites. Highly Recommended.

• Tripadvisor.com : Benefit from the wisdom of crowds by accessing this site to get information on any lodging you may be considering. With more than 15 million reviews, this is the definitive source for information, after which you can go to any travel site to make your booking.

• Wikitravel : Fast becoming an indispensable part of travel planning, Wikitravel has information for over 20,000 destinations.

• Mizpee : Because when you gotta go you gotta go. Geared towards women, but useful for everyone.

• Universal Packing List : The checklist you need no matter where you’re traveling to, although it seems curious that the destination is not one of the factors taken into account. While you can choose average temperatures, international travel and purpose of travel, we would think at least the continent (let alone country) of destination would be an important factor.

Shopping

• Coupons & Deals : A collection of sites offering coupons and deals for your next purchase.

• Consumerist.com : Where the wisdom of crowds bites back. If you’re not 100% about a store, phone company, cable company, moving company or pretty much anything else, check this site first.

• GetInvisibleHand.com : A plug-in that stays invisible all the time, until something you are shopping for is available cheaper elsewhere, when it provides a link to the cheaper version.

• Etsy.com : A source for handmade artwork, clothes, accessories and gifts, made by people just like you.

• Nextag : : A comparative shopping website, which, unlike others, has thousands of reviews by users on all of their products and is extremely straightforward in its approach and ease of use.

• Zilok.com : Don’t actually want to buy anything? Here you can rent whatever you need and rent out whatever you don’t. User-generated.

• Iliketotallyloveit : The epitome of social shopping. People post various products they think are good or just interesting, along with price and where it can be bought, and other users rate and comment on them. The most popular products are featured first.

• Zeer: Here you can find nutritional facts, reviews, warnings and advice on countless food items, all by users just like you.

• E-pinions : User-generated opinions on millions of products out there for sale. Feel free to submit your own as well.

Other

• Pixelgirl Presents : Free artwork for your computer or cell phone, all submitted by artists who then have links to their personal sites. A great way to support upcoming artists, and get great artwork for free.

• Open Source Food : Anyone can submit recipes and anyone can evaluate them. If you like a certain dish you can also search for other dishes by the same chef.

• Yahoo! Answers : While known to many for its memes and hilarious questions, this is also one of the most useful resources for random questions you may have, due to the sheer number of people using it.

• Paperback Swap : Exactly what it sounds like. Once you send a book to someone you receive one credit, which you can use to request a book from someone else.

• TitleTrader : Works just like Paperback Swap, but in addition to books you can trade CDs and DVDs as well. Points can be earned by swapping, paying, or referring other users.

• GetHuman : If you’re tired of calling customer service only to have a recording ask you to press this and that and putting you on hold, just follow these steps to reach a human, for pretty much every company.

• How to Clean Anything : From Golf club grips to tree sap, a list of how to clean anything. It isn’t completely exhaustive yet, but it’s growing, and you can submit your own articles and tips via e-mail.