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Black Friday Shopping Tips: How To Get The Best Deals On The Things On Your List

November 20, 2009
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If you’re anything like thousands of other people out there, you’ve been saving up your hard earned cash for months now in anticipation of finding a great deal on that special item on the biggest shopping day of they year, Black Friday.   Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the day that traditionally retailers books [...]

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Start Saving Up For Infrequent Expenses And Christmas Savings Goals Using Automatic Accounts Like Smarty Pig

November 19, 2009
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We’re quickly coming upon one of the busiest spending times of the year, the Christmas season. For too many years I would come up to Christmas and suddenly realize that I had woefully under-prepared for the coming holiday. I never saved up enough money to pay for gifts for my immediate family, [...]

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EverBank Bank Review: High Yield Savings Account

November 19, 2009
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A few weeks back now I wrote about how I had opened a high yield savings account with ING Direct because I really liked all of the budgeting features that the account had, it’s increased security and the fact that it had a competitive rate. I am using ING Direct as a budgeting account [...]

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Sharing Some Photos From Our Trip And Post Roundup

November 12, 2009
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A couple of weeks ago my wife and I went on vacation for a week from Canada’s Niagara Falls area, through New England and ending up in Maine. We had a wonderful time, and over the course of the week we took a lot of gorgeous pictures. Today I thought I’d share a [...]

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$8000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension: Take Advantage Of Incentives Through June 30th, 2010

November 9, 2009
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If you’re a first time homebuyer and you thought that you might be out of time when it came to getting the $8000 refundable tax credit, think again!  On Friday the Obama administration signed into law the Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance Act of 2009 which extends the $8000 refundable tax credit through the end [...]

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$6500 Homebuyer Tax Credit For Current Homeowners Signed Into Law Today. Is It Retroactive?

November 6, 2009
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Last week I wrote about how congress was attempting once again to pass an extension of the $8000 first time homebuyer tax credit.  There had been several false starts to get an extension passed as the senate and congress weren’t able to agree on amounts of credits, whether to extend the credits at all, and [...]

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The Great Big List Of 75 Budgeting Tools, Finance Softwares And Iphone Money Apps

November 5, 2009
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A list of 75 + budgeting tools, finance softwares, Iphone money apps and other personal finance related programs that can help you implement your financial plan.

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HSBC Direct Bank Review: Online High Yield Savings Account

November 2, 2009
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As I continue my search to find the best high yield savings accounts for our family, one that keeps showing up on my radar and that seems to have an extremely strong reputation is the online savings accounts from HSBC Direct.
HSBC Direct doesn’t have branches, the accounts are online only – but it is a [...]

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Senators Agree To Extend First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit And Allow Up To $6500 Tax Credit For Current Homeowners

October 30, 2009
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For some time we’ve been talking about the first time homebuyers tax credit that was passed as a part of the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package. As we mentioned a short time ago, if you haven’t already put in a contract on a house and set up your closing for before November 30th, you most [...]

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