Today’s Rambles
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Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about 2010. I think about my goals, my
budget, my job, my apartment, my relationships. I want to accomplish so much
this ne...
The Key to Entrepreneurial Freedom
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In financial terms, the necessity of feeding and sheltering each new human
being with housing, corn, and corn-feed animals can be associated with a
debt in...
Avoid a Financial Holiday Hangover This Year
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Plan Ahead to Avoid a Financial Holiday Hangover Does this scenario sound
familiar? You use credit cards to do your holiday shopping, promising
yourself yo...
What is Backup Withholding?
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Last week I contacted Ally Bank with a last minute change of heart. I had
intended to roll our 12 month CD into a 5 year CD upon expiration, but had
second...
2009 Veterans Day Deals and Discounts
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Happy Veterans Day to all the veterans out there who served our country in
the Armed Forces, and to those who supported veterans while they served – we
cou...
late bills
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I really hate the way our utility company handles their billing and payment.
For one thing, they've spelled my name wrong for years. There are two ways
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WestJet: FAIL
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As most of you know, J and I are flying to Calgary in January. Well, when we
booked our flights J hadn't heard from his job opportunity yet. So because
of ...
Bargaineering Store Technical Issues
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To everyone who has been bidding on the Bargaineering Store auctions, there
has been a technical glitch this morning. It’s powered by an auction
Wordpress ...
Money Hacks Carnival #90: Minimalist Edition
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Without further ado, this week's best in financial blogging:
Editor's Picks
PT presents PocketSmith: A Calendar-Based Financial Planner posted at PT
Money...
Reverse Mortgages for Seniors
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If you or your parents have lived in your home for many years and have built
up a lot of equity in the property you may have heard about or considered a
re...
What’s In FB’s Bag?
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Inspired by Well-Heeled Blog’s contest (of which I cannot enter, as I am
Canadian and those gift cards to T.J. Maxx or Marshall’s would be
meaningless for ...
How I Save Money At CVS: 9 November 2009
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Today I paid $0.00 out of pocket for $21.11 worth of items. I wanted to make
two separate trips so that I could get two scans of my green bag tag and be
th...
Everything You Need To Know About SEO. Or Not.
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Every now and again at IttyBiz, when we get big surges in traffic or
subscribers, we run a little system to separate the wheat from the chaff. We
write som...
7 Dividend Stocks To Slay The Wall Street Giants
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Driven by computers that cost more than the average person will earn in
their lifetime the investment markets move at light speed. To keep pace
hedge funds...
4 Lessons From My First Job – Guest Post
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* The following is a guest post by Bucksome Boomer, a baby boomer, who
writes about her **personal finance journey** to Retirement. To read more of
Bucksom...
Catalog Madness
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Yesterday, my mailbox was full to the point of exploding. Thankfully, it
wasn’t bills. Some charity donation requests, but what was filling the
mailbox...
Is it possible the government has your money?
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The California State Controller recently spoke at a seminar I attended. His
main focus was the economic status of the state (bleak) but he tried to end
on ...
Photo Books: Blurb vs. Shutterfly
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I know what the perfect momento of my upcoming Disney adventure would be: a
photo book filled with pictures and memories! Because… realization of
childhood...
Dissecting the Dollar Re-Design Project
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With faith in the US dollar hitting new lows, some believe the solution lies
not in politics, but in design. But rather than merely arguing for a
new-look ...
Could you save money with Obamacare?
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If you have not heard, the monstrous 2000 page healthcare bill has passed in
the House. It will be debated in the Senate soon, but chances are it will
pas...
Comparing Costs: Should I Drive or Fly?
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I am debating how to get home for the Christmas holidays. My choices are a)
to fly, or b) to drive.
When I was in college I made the nine hour drive home ...
how to manage money
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I have an account – several, actually – with TD Ameritrade. I like TD
Ameritrade well enough. The fees are reasonable for trading and they have a
fairly ...
My Great-Aunt Minnie
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I've been thinking a lot about my Great-Aunt. I've been meaning to write
about her ever since starting this blog, as I mentioned in this post (I gave
my gr...
Adventures in Dallas (and how we saved money there)
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This past week, I took my first trip to Texas. I was kind of excited and
kind of nervous as I didn't know what to really expect. I have known only a
couple...
Gold breaks $1,100: Does It Matter?
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Last week, gold prices briefly touched $1,100/oz before settling just under
that number. Apparently the Indian government decided to sell US dollars
and m...
November Goals
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I know we are a week into November, but since I haven't had a chance to
create my monthly goals I'm going to post them now. I've discovered that
three to f...
Gap Friends and Family Sale-it’s back!
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From November 12 through November 15, Gap (and its partners Old Navy, Banana
Republic, and Athleta) are having their Friends and Family sale again. For
th...
Liz Jones Loves Spending Money
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I understand that we are all products of our environments to some extent.
That works until you are about thirteen years old; then you should be able
to loo...
Fast Moving ETFs - Last Week's Hottest (08-Nov-2009)
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Each week, I like to publish the past week's hottest ETFs to share some new
trends and niche ETFs out there and give investors some new
investing/diversifi...
Swagbucks 5 prize limit decoded!
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I saw the post on Krystal's blog that you can only redeem your Swagbucks for
5 prizes per month. Since I ordered two prizes in September ($10 total in
Amaz...
One Key Focus
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Recently, I consolidated some debt into my credit card. I am not going to go
into the details, but after reviewing my finances I have made my main
financia...
How Much Can I REALLY Save Per Month?
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I've decided that even though my potential graduate education will likely
cost me $150k+, I'm going to focus on saving $100k and take out loans for
the add...
Why You Should Join a Credit Union
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The following guest post was contributed by Christine Howell, who frequently
writes about Online Finance Degrees and college related topics for Online
Coll...
Current Discover Bank CD Rates
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Discover Bank currently has some relatively high CD rates available
nationwide. Current CD rates include: 3 month CD – 1.00% APY 6 month CD –
1.35% APY 9 m...
The Weekend in Review
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I had a good weekend. I managed to spend a ton of money, but on things like
my electric bill, my phone bill, and a huge food shopping (I'm really liking
th...
October 2009 Net Worth Update (-$591)
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October ended a strong run of monthly net worth gains as extra expenses and losses in the market outpaced our income for the month. Given the size of our por...
What to say?!
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Oh boy. So much to catch up on. While I have been neglecting this blog (what
else is new?), I've been shamelessly updating twitter (find me
@LeannainLondon...
Simple Weekend Roundup
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If you enjoy this post be sure to subscribe to the email newsletter and RSS
feed for blog updates or follow on Twitter. This week’s edition of Simple
Weeke...
Queercents bids farewell for now.
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After drawing 1.5 million page views with nearly 2,500 posts from over 50
contributors; Queercents is taking a time out. More precisely, its leader
needed ...
Budeting Babe on Hiatus
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I've always hated housekeeping. But as I look around this blog, it's obvious
that housekeeping is sorely needed. The world of the web has changed rapidly
s...
Free BJ's Warehouse Club Membership for 60 days
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FYI, BJ's is again offering a free 60 day membership. Unfortunately, I don't
have one near me, but I'd check it out if I were close to one. I apologize
if ...
What Grows Faster Than Than Inflation?
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If we knew what would grow faster than inflation, we all could just plonk
our retirement money in it and be assured of safe leisurely life in our old
age. ...
Books!
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Law school orientation was about 20 bazillion times more enjoyable than I
remember undergrad orientation being. Turns out all I needed to be
comfortable in...
Vanishing Act: Where did Vixen on a Budget go?
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A lot has happened in the last year:
I moved in with my boyfriend last July. Started having severe anxiety over
school, work and my relationship. Decided t...
Maintaining Focus on Debt - remember the baby steps
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A few weeks ago I decided to start focusing on my finances and on my debt
again. At first I was all full of ideas and wanted to tackle the problem
right aw...
My Comment On A Foolish Article
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Read this article on Fool.com: Rocket Stock or Dud? A couple of years ago I
would not have noticed anything amiss with this article.. and would have
probab...
Staying in Shape for Less
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Fitness is important to a lot of college students. It’s not important to me,
alas. I’m content to eat ice cream, sit on my bed writing papers on my
laptop ...
Success At Your Own Risk: The Monkey Bar Theory
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I’ve always avoided explaining why I break one “rule” of blogging that many
people parrot by posting irregularly and infrequently, but here’s why: When
I s...
You Knew This Was Coming
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You've probably guessed that this is coming, but here it is: this blog is no
more.
For those who are curious, I did get into graduate school—I got into th...
Excuses
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Gah. Geez. Sorry for the MIA-ness. We had some not so great news at work, a
small salary rollback. It was a while before we heard how much of a
rollback, b...
Living Cheaply with Quality
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Cheap living isn't as easy to do as I would have thought it was. Oh sure, I
could live cheaply by being a leech and living off of others kindness or
skippi...
Credit Card Fraud
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I just had my second credit card shut down for fraud. This happened last
summer when Citi Cards initiated the process by informing me that my account
had b...
Is Now The Time To Jump Back Into The Stock Market?
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Wow, what a roller coaster couple of months it has been in the stock market.
It has been stressful enough for those of us who are many years from
retiremen...
How do you select an engagement ring?
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I got engaged on our 6 month anniversary. We have talked about it and
luckily agreed that it would be a long engagement and we do not have a date
set. I re...
A Tale of the Casualties of Dead Refrigerators
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Yesterday, my fridge died.
Luckily (and perhaps unluckily), my boyfriend is still at my house and was
able to get the whole mess taken care of – cleaning...
Moving!
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HWFL is moving! I've been exploring other platforms and settled on
Squarespace. This Blogger/Blogspot version will no longer be updated.
Please update your...
What a Labor…
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I know it’s been a while since this blog has been updated. I’ve been filling
my time with freelancing for other websites, but rest assure plans for
expansi...
Two Value Investing experts sound off
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*Stock Picks from a Berkshire-like Investor (Morningstar)*
Tom Gayner discusses some of the methodology behind investment picks at Markel
Corp.
*Advice fro...
Suze Orman: Who Cares?!?!
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Looking at my feeds this morning and I am STILL seeing posts about Suze
Orman being gay, that she does not care about money, she is rude, she is a
green mo...
Google Reader's user interface drives me nutso. But blogger has a new feature where I can post my Reader favs all in one spot. This page is mostly for my own reading pleasure, but you're welcome to join me in following my favorite personal finance blogs on the web!
There are so many good PF blogs out there. I wanted to provide one spot to keep track of everyone's recent posts. This is a collection of the best of the best of the PF blogosphere. If your blog is worthy of joining the list, I'll happily add it. Send it to hereverycentcounts
