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American Express Bank Savings Review: High Yield Savings Account

American Express has been around for 160+ years, has one of the most recognizable brands in the world and now savings accounts as well!

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Announcing Another Money Life Network Group Writing Project: Jumpstart Your Economy!

January 24, 2009

I am proud to announce that the Money Life Network will be launching another group series this week titled “Jumpstart YOUR Economy: Tips For Starting The New Year Off Right“. So that you can plan on checking the series this week, here’s a schedule of the upcoming posts! Sunday January 25th: SenseToSave.com talks taxes. Monday [...]

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Photos Of My Home Office: Where The Magic Happens

January 23, 2009

I was reading the blogs in my reader this morning when I came upon two similar posts. The original one by My Two Dollars talked about how some readers had asked to see what David’s home office looks like. He complied by posting pictures showing his very neat desk, big beautiful monitor and beautiful mountain [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Never Satisfied With His Income

January 23, 2009

Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless. Ecclesiastes 5:10 Living in our culture it’s hard not to focus on material things. We’re blasted with constant commercials and advertisements trumpeting how happiness is only a BMW away. We may have money, but we [...]

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Rates Are Low. Is It Time To Refinance? Our Refinance Story

January 21, 2009

My wife and I have been shopping around lately trying to find a good deal on a lower rate for our home mortgage. We’re currently sitting at around 6.5% with our 30 year fixed rate mortgage. We bought our house right before the real estate bubble burst, so the market was at its highest. Our [...]

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The Best Decision Doesn’t Always Make The Most Financial Sense

January 20, 2009

One thing that I’ve come to realize over the years is that getting your finances together and winning financially doesn’t always make sense. In fact, sometimes, it defies financial logic. There are a lot of reasons why this is the case, but for me the most convincing one is that we as humans aren’t perfect [...]

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Do You Ever Plan To Fully Retire?

January 19, 2009

The languor of idleness is worse than the worst weariness of toil – Hugh Black I was thinking recently about how so many people have recently had to re-think their retirement plans as their nest eggs have been depleted or vanished altogether due to our economic meltdown. People who were thinking that they would be [...]

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Home Equity Blues – Monday Roundup

January 19, 2009

It’s Monday again, and time for another week at work! I for one am just thankful to have a job in these tough economic times, so I’m going to be making the best of it this week! Over the weekend we found out that our house has dropped in value so much that doing a [...]

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Devotional: Giving as Worship

January 18, 2009

photo credit: jsorbieus Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops. – Proverbs 3:9 In the Old Testament, believers did not come to the temple to worship without an offering to give God. Indeed, their offerings were integral, or essential, to their worship of God. While we do not worship [...]

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Interview With Blogger And Certified Financial Planner Jeff Rose

January 16, 2009

When you read blogs, you can always tell when the person writing the blog is passionate about the subject matter that they’ve chosen. Their writing sucks you in, and keeps you coming back. You know those blogs will most likely take it to the next level. A blog that I’ve been mightily impressed with lately [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Diversify Your Holdings

January 15, 2009

Give portions to seven, yes to eight, for you do not know what disaster may come upon the land. Ecclesiastes 11:2 Last night in our Financial Peace University class we had a lesson on investing (you can read about it here), and one of the principles that was stressed by Dave Ramsey was that when [...]

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It is soooo coold.. brr. Post Roundup

January 14, 2009

photo credit: *Micky The past few days have been extremely cold here in Minnesota, with yesterday’s temp bottoming out at around -23 degrees Farenheit. I’ve come to the conclusion that once you reach -5 or so, it all just feels cold, and it doesn’t really make a difference. -23 feels the same as -5, so [...]

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Stimulus Package Was Needed But It Won’t End the Crunch

January 13, 2009

photo credit: Hey Paul Today Ben Bernanke talked about the stimulus package currently being discussed by President-elect Obama and his incoming administration. He believes it will help, but that it won’t be enough to bring a lasting recovery. From the International Herald Tribune: The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said Tuesday that the [...]

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A Commonly Believed Myth: The Little Guy Just Can’t Get Ahead

January 12, 2009

photo credit: ivoryelephantphotography During the time that I’ve been writing this blog, one thing that I have noticed is the difference in attitudes between those who are on their way to financial success, and those who just seem to be mired in debt and despair. They have a distinct difference is an attitude and outlook. [...]

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Devotional: The Road Ahead

January 11, 2009

photo credit: James Jordan By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going. – Hebrews 11:8 The photo on the front cover of my first book shows a man walking down a road. We [...]

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