Over at Get Rich Slowly, the carnival of personal finance #82 is up, with a bigger than life title Financial Superheroes Edition. Along with my post about big box stores vs. mom and pop shops, there were a few others that caught my super eyes:
Blogging Away Debt talks about “survival debt”, people going into [...]
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So, you think you know the best ways to save money? Do ya? Well, the government thinks that they know some of the best ways to save money too…which is kind of funny because they like wasting so much of it. But putting that aside, they have assembled a master list of sorts [...]
In case the pursuit of money becomes an overwhelming priority and you forget other things, just remember:
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you. ~Oscar Wilde
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For anyone looking for a quick checkup of their retirement planning to see if they are on track for the future, Kiplinger’s and NAPFA (National Association of Personal Finance Advisors) are having their 5th annual “Jump-Start Your Retirement Plan Days” on Tuesday January 16th and Friday January 26th, from 9am to 6pm eastern time. [...]
While it is already a few days past January 1 and I should have maybe come up with this list back in December so I could have started on them right away, I was a bit tired from traveling to see family and I was away from this evil time sucking box people call the [...]
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Seems Paris Hilton “ditch and dines” like other people do…the difference here is that she is worth a gazillion dollars..and I wasn’t in college when I knew “some people” that did it once or twice:
Paris Hilton skips lunch bill in Sydney
The staff at Sloanes Cafe in the trendy Paddington shopping district were left scratching their [...]
As I am sure many people have heard, there are several states (Arkansas, California, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and West Virginia) that have raised their minimum wage as of January 1. Here in California, the minimum wage is now $7.50 per hour, which works out to $14,400 per year [...]
In the town that I grew up in, we really only had Mom and Pop type stores; they were mostly all locally owned (even the banks) and we did not have any “big box” stores to speak of other than a single K-Mart. So whenever we needed something, be it from the hardware store, [...]
