Thinking about selling the clothes you purged from your newly organized closet? A consignment shop is a great way to make some money from items you no longer want. But be sure you know the rules before casting off your unwanted items. Before you load up your car with bags of clothing find out what stores will except and when. Most stores are no longer taking summer items and will only want winter and fall. Some items need to be on hangers and less than 3 years old unless of course it is Chanel. So call ahead, find out what they except and schedule an appointment.

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The economy is still in the dump, which means that disruptive technologies have a great opportunity to succeed by using the demand to save money to promote change. Netflix, Hulu and iTunes are offering a different way to view and pay for television content. And apparently a few hundred thousand people are taking the plunge and dumping their cable service. Earlier this year The Yankee group said that 1 in 8 Americans will cancel their cable subscriptions before the end of 2010.

In theory the move makes sense. Cable bills can range from $40 to $240 a month. That's a lot of content by a pay per view standard. THe additional force at work is that social networks and the internet are also cutting into tv time as a source of entertainment. So when many people count up the shows they can't do without and add up how much it cost them to purchase those shows, stream and download. They see real savings.

Have you thought about dumping your cable bill and saving a few bucks?