Just yesterday I received my Citi MasterCard annual account summary in the mail and wow, it is surprising what how the charges add up! Since this is my AA miles card, we do charge a lot of things to it, but somewhere in the middle of last year we got a Citi Dividends card [...]
Man oh man, for some reason this morning I cannot get motivated to do anything. Well, I guess I am motivated enough to put this quick list together, but other than that, I cannot get moving. Three cups of coffee into this morning and still….ugh. But reading some of my favorite financial blogs [...]
Well, it finally happened….2006 has ended and it’s time to begin again. Just as a recap for the beginning of the New Year, I looked back through my archives to when I began and picked out a few of my favorite posts for those of you who are just starting to read this site now [...]
Thanks so much to the hosts this week for including some of my posts in the carnivals! Here are the posts I had included and the festivals they were included in:
*How a $3.85 drink at Starbucks affects your bottom line – Festival of Frugality #54
* The seven roads to financial ruin and how to [...]
Even the government wants you to plan out your finances (to be sure you pay your taxes, no doubt) and are offering up a free financial planning kit via download. From the site:
“Imagine putting aside extra money each month. Don’t think it’s feasible? Look no further than the coins rattling around in your pocket. [...]
This week, I was lucky enough to have my post Love and Marriage – Impress yourselves, not your friends included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #79. If you don’t follow the carnival, I highly suggest you do so. This weeks carnival is up at A Penny Saved so be sure to head [...]
So, you took up Citi’s offer to pay you back for $100 in gasoline, huh? And its getting close to the time to A. turn in your receipts and cancel your membership in the credit protector plan? I know I have a few more days before I have to cancel, and one more [...]
Over at Ask Metafilter there is an ongoing conversation about who could possibly be the LEAST manipulative credit card company out there. Its a pretty interesting read with some interesting comments, go check it out if you have a minute.
Over at Ask Metafilter.
The latest Carnival of Personal Finance, or #77 as the cool kids call it, is up over at Money and Values. This week I had the lucky enough to be included with my article ” “Got my last free credit report for the year, did you get yours?.”
Please be sure to head on [...]
I figure at the beginning of the month I will post my favorite post from the previous month, and November’s is my post about the system we used to pay off our debt and how it can help you get those debts paid off quicker without much further damage to your wallet:
How we paid our [...]
I hope by now everyone is accessing their free credit reports every year (are there still some states that dont let you do this?). Through AnnualCreditReport you are allowed 1 report from each agency every 12 months. So we schedule ours for one report every 4 months, and I just got my last one [...]
Thanks to reading the post about this over at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity back on Friday November 10th, and thanks to the fact that I have 2 of Citibank’s credit cards, I just received in the mail today my “Mail-In Gasoline Cash Back Certificate”. All I have to do is spend $100 on gas, save [...]
Ok, I know you NEEDED that 9th credit card that just showed up in the mail…I mean, how could you turn it down when they offered you 21% interest for 12 years, a free Geo Metro, and a trip to Siberia? Everyone I know gets offers daily in their mailbox for new credit cards…they [...]
