Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Find Cheap Gas With Bill Shrink






Question: What happens when the world's banks decide to organize a 5-year-long poker party using our mortgages as chips?

Answer:
The World loses its shirt

With the recession continuing to churn relentlessly like Carnie Wilson's stomach after a midnight trip to Cold Stone, most of us are looking to conserve cash wherever and whenever we can.

BillShrink might just be the site to help you do that. After creating an account, you're asked some questions regarding your credit card usage, commute to work and cell phone usage. BillShrink then works its magic and suggests ways you can make savings.

For credit cards and cell phone plans it's quite simple. After analyzing your answers to a few simple questions you'll be introduced to alternative credit cards or cell phone plans that could help you conserve some cash. In the case of cell phones, you can even upload your most recent cell phone bill to allow BillShrink to perform a highly detailed analysis.

The gas feature is really interesting. Simply enter the start and end points of your daily commute along with your car make, model and year and BillShrink will analyze your route and map-out the cheapest gas stations along the way. Since this data changes frequently, you can also sign-up to receive updates via email.

Check out the video above for a full walk-through.

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