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Thursday Morning Money – Saving For Retirement Edition

Ever spend hours watching your retirement dollars go up and down with the stock market? No? Me neither….on to some favorites from this week….
Lazy Man & Money talks about the recently won $390 million dollar lottery and how if you split the winnings you could not buy that baseball team you wanted. [...]

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No Credit Needed Being Interviewed For TV.

As further evidence that the world of personal finance bloggers is becoming more mainstream, No Credit Needed just posted that a television crew was on the way over for an interview to possibly be aired in May. Good luck NCN and keep up the media work, you are on a roll!

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Spending Money To Save Even More Money.

Over at Kottke.org there is an interesting post on how companies are asking us to spend money in order to benefit different charities. His example is the RED campaign at The Gap, which gives money to stop HIV/AIDS in Africa for each dollar you spend on their RED items. Kottke’s point is “if [...]

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Favorite Blog Wednesday – Don’t Need No Credit.

The fifth personal finance site in my series “Favorite Blog Wednesday” is No Credit Needed, a great website and resource for those living with credit card debt. I have been reading NCN for quite some time, and it is always inspirational to read about people that have figured out that credit is [...]

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Hear Ye Consumers – Don’t Get Ripped Off Again.

Seems the good old government wants to help you get what you deserve from companies. They are offering a Consumer Action Handbook…for free! From the site:
“Your new computer doesn’t include a warranty. The sweater you ordered online never showed up. And the new washer you bought is noisy and leaking water. If you feel [...]

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Stop The Financial Leakage!

Real Simple has a bunch of cool tips on their site titled “20 ways to plug hidden financial leaks — and save up to $3000 a year”. Let’s take a look at a few…
The Leak: Paying bills by snail mail. – Haven’t done this in years now, so I guess I stopped up [...]

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Buying Organic – It Is Worth The Extra Cost.

It always amazes me when I hear about people that complain about the cost of buying organic foods. I mean, this is the stuff that fuels you and keeps you going..its what keeps you alive. So why wouldn’t you want to put the best possible stuff in your body? People do not think [...]

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Festival of Frugality #64 Is A Ticket To Savings.

Getting Green was lucky enough to host this week’s Festival of Frugality…#64 to be exact. This weeks posts are divided into four categories: Home & Family, Buying & Selling, Business, and Miscellaneous. My post “Buying On Sale Does Not Save You Money!” was included in the Buying & Selling category.
Some other posts of great [...]

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Should They Teach Personal Finance In High School?

My wife and I were discussing this the other night and both of us thought it was ridiculous that they don’t teach a personal finance class in high school, at least not when we were in school. Is it any wonder that when kids go off to college they rack up so much debt? [...]

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Buying On Sale Does Not Save You Money!

Rather, it costs you money, and probably more than you would have spent in the first place.
I was having lunch with a friend on Saturday (who shall remain nameless) and we were talking about how much stuff he had gotten lately on sale at a few electronic stores. He could not believe his good [...]