Dorky, yes. But it still made me laugh, so tough.
Anyways, seems that today was a big Carnival day with the 74th Carnival of Debt Reduction going up over at Blogging Away Debt, and the 87th Carnival of Personal Finance making a showing over at 2million – My Journey to Financial Freedom.
My post “Living [...]
We here in personal finance blog land like to talk about saving our money, getting out of debt, buying a house, putting away a little something for retirement, etc. Every once in a while you see a story about a person living high on the hog but not having any money. This one that [...]
Today we received my wife’s last student loan check for her education; she finally finishes school in May. Hooray! It is for quite a bit more than the tuition, leaving us with a few thousand bucks to “play” with. My thoughts on this are as follows:
Since the loan does not start accruing interest until [...]
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 [...]
Yep. A pen. You know, the ones that write. With ink and stuff. They do the same thing that pens you find on the street or in your office do, except these pens cost $3,360. Each. Not for a pack of 10,000, but each. If you seriously have enough money to start buying [...]
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. [...]
In a follow up to my post yesterday about a quick and easy budget worksheet (which was very simple but helpful nonetheless), over at The Motley Fool I have just come across a free pdf download of a “Get out of Debt” worksheet. I just downloaded it and took a look, it has sections [...]
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 [...]
Now, I don’t know much about this movie, but I after I watched the video I went and looked up the site and this is what it said:
” IN DEBT WE TRUST is the latest film from Danny Schechter, “The News Dissector,” director of the internationally distributed and award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an [...]
I met my wife 4 years ago this month through some mutual friends. She says it was fate, but I believe it was some sort of a freak accident. Whatever anyone believes, we met while standing next to a creepy clown blowing up balloons for some 5 year olds. But I digress. Soon after [...]
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.
It’s Tuesday morning and the Festival of Frugality is up at The Frugal Duchess. A big thank you to the Duchess for including my article “Sometimes the simple things can save the most money“, and for leaving such a nice comment.
Go…now….check out the Festival of Frugality is up at The Frugal Duchess
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 [...]
“Government no longer has our back,” explains Tamara Draut, author of the recently published book Strapped, in an email. “Young adults today, working to get into the middle class — they’re being hit by a one-two punch: The economy no longer generates widespread opportunity, and our public policies haven’t picked up any of the slack.”
While [...]
