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10 Items for Your Last-Minute Travel Checklist 26 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I don’t know if you’ve notice, but Labor Day is right upon us, exactly a week from now, in fact. With it, the end of summer is here, however much we may wish that wasn’t the case. Still, Labor Day d...
Weekly Round-Up: Upcoming Trip to My Mother’s 24 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t seen much about anyone’s plans for Labor Day weekend yet. Admittedly, it’s not a huge holiday; most people are just visiting some relatives, doing a little BBQin...
Guest Post – The ABCs of Choosing CDs 23 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
(It’s often easy, when you spend so much time looking at stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and even more complex investments, to forget that you need to keep some of your money in safe, easy to understand,...
Book Review – Jim Cramer’s Getting Back to Even 21 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
The 2008 stock market crash, and the Great Recession that has followed, probably caused you to lose a great deal of your investments. At the same time, it also likely left you confused about just how...
7 Resources to Help You Start a Business 19 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
So, you want to start a business. Congratulations! It’s a wonderful pursuit to undertake, one that my wife, among others, is planning to engage in herself. There are a huge variety of businesses th...
Weekly Round-Up: My Wife is Thinking About a Craft Business 17 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
If you spend much time at all on personal finance blogs, you’ve probably noticed much discussion about starting your own business. After all, a blog is a form of business itself, so all of us behind ...
Ways to Avoid Advertising Throughout Your Life 14 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I’ve wondered for a while if I should discuss advertisements, and in particular, how you can avoid them. I’ve been torn about whether I should write about them. On the one hand, I try to discuss all...
5 Tricks Stores Use So You Spend More (and Avoiding Them) 12 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
There are a lot of stores out there, and they want your business. Or more precisely, they want your money. Preferably, as much as you are willing to give them, and then some you wouldn’t willing giv...
Weekly Round-Up: Have to Watch Those Prices 10 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I have a little story to tell about an odd shopping experience, but first, a short refresher on common saving suggestions: One in particular that is regularly repeated is buy nonperishable goods in b...
Book Review – Happy Money 7 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
Most personal finance sources tend to focus on one major concept: getting more money. Sometimes they look at spending less, sometimes at earning more, sometimes at both at once, but the basic idea in...
