10 Fun And Free Things To Do

November 28, 2008

This is a guest post by Jonathan over at MasterYourCard.com.  He blogs about personal finance and credit cards, and is an entertaining read! If you enjoy his writing you can subscribe to his feed here. I’m So Bored These can be some of the most expensive words to come out of someone’s mouth because in [...]

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What Are You Grateful For This Thanksgiving?

November 27, 2008

photo credit: bucklava Since I’m asking the question, I’ll start us off. This year I’m thankful for my beautiful wife, that she has survived a serious blood clot, a 3 week hospital stay and is now on the road to recovery. I’m thankful that I have a good job, a nice home and wonderful friends [...]

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Obama Considers $500 Billion Stimulus Package For Early 2009

November 26, 2008

photo credit: Tony the Misfit Sounds like a stimulus plan is in the works, to be signed by President elect Obama once he is sworn in.  From the Wall Street Journal: Aides to President-elect Barack Obama and President George W. Bush are rushing to craft measures to shore up financial markets and prevent a policy [...]

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Christmas Budgeting Tips: Avoid Overspending At This Expensive Time Of Year

November 25, 2008

The holidays are almost here, and if you haven’t already, it’s time to start thinking about buying Christmas gifts for family friends and neighbors! Will you be heading out to wait in line at one of the Black Friday sales? photo credit: Paul Keleher Christmas is one of those times of year that we normally [...]

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5 Keys To Overcoming The Urge To Splurge

November 21, 2008

Christmas is for debt? Christmas will soon be upon us with all of the good cheer, family get togethers and presents! All of the big department stores are already in full-on Christmas mode, with aisles upon aisles of decorations in the front of the store and Christmas music pumping over the PA systems.  It’s hard [...]

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Unintended Consequences Of Doing A Budget

November 20, 2008

Doing a budget has decreased our spending photo credit: Jeff Keen Within the past few months my wife and I have started doing a zero based budget where every dollar is allocated before it comes in.  When the paychecks are deposited each and every dollar is assigned a job, whether it be paying bills, groceries, [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Your Value

November 19, 2008

Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear; you are more valuable than many sparrows. Luke 12:7

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Full Scale Stimulus Package Pushed Back Until After Inauguration

November 18, 2008

An article in the Washington Post announced today that democrats have put plans for a full scale stimulus package on hold,  at least until after Barack Obama is inaugurated in January. Congressional Democrats yesterday abandoned plans to offer a wide-ranging economic stimulus plan next week, putting off any chance that the federal government would provide [...]

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Enforce Your Brand On Twitter: Use A Custom Background

November 17, 2008

A while back I posted “7 Ways To Use Twitter to Promote Your Blog And Build Traffic” and talked about why Twitter was such a great place for bloggers to hang out, promote their blog, network with other bloggers and do research for new articles.  If you haven’t read the article already, you can check [...]

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Is It Just Me Or Is The Weekend Too Short?

November 17, 2008

It seems like last week just ended, and the weekend just started, but I wake up this morning to find that it’s Monday morning already!   Not only that, when I woke up this morning, I woke up late, and had to rush through the shower and morning routine to make it to my carpool on [...]

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Nuru Personal Finance Flash Cards Giveaway! And Your Winner Is…

November 14, 2008

Review and GiveawayLuke over nuruplanet.com sent me a packet of Nuru’s Personal Finance Pocket Cards to review on the site. The flash cards are a lot of fun, full of good information, and now I’m going to give them away to a lucky winner! So What Are They? from the Nuru website: NURU‘s Personal Finance [...]

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Reader Question: Is It A Good Idea To Get A 401k Loan To Pay Off Debt?

November 13, 2008

I had a question posed to me this week about 401k loans, and whether they were a good idea.  The person said they were considering using a 401k loan to pay off some higher interest credit card debt.  The rationale behind doing this was that they’d rather pay themselves interest than the credit card company, [...]

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First A Stimulus Check. Is A $1000 Emergency Energy Rebate Next?

November 12, 2008

More government aid? After reading an article over on fivecentnickel.com about the possibility of the Obama administration pushing for a $1000 Emergency Energy Rebate, I had to check it out for myself. I found that while talk of an “energy rebate” isn’t recent news,  the Obama campaign did talk on the campaign trail about giving [...]

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Happy Veteran’s Day!

November 11, 2008

Happy Veteran’s Day everyone!  To all of you veterans out there who read this blog, I thank you for your service. Today I remember my grandfather, Fred Anderson and his service to our country in World War II.  He was shot down over Europe, and spent much of the war in a German prison camp.  [...]

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