Archive for August, 2007
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Alternative Income Streams Progress – September 2007
With the beginning of the September just a day away, I thought I’d push the monthly alternative income update up one day rather than back 3 or 4 for the long weekend and my Save Money Monday. Last month, the magic word was “perspective” as most of the gains just offset the emergency of my [...]
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Genius Types: A Site I Think You Will Like
If you are a regular reader you know I don’t usually write reviews of other sites. I also don’t accept payment for reviews, so this is review is completely “unsponsored.” I’ve never corresponded with the site’s owner, Brian Lee and he has no knowledge that I am writing this review. The site I’d like you [...]
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Keeping a Level Head in a Down Market – Should you Stay the Course?
Recently, Trent from The Simple Dollar, one of the best personal finance bloggers I read wrote, Basic Investing In A Down Market (Or Any Time You Feel Nervous). In it he too a question from a reader, Lila, who was nervous about her 401K investments in this market. Trent suggested that she sell her holding [...]
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Save Money on Movies, Music, Television, and Books
[Each Monday for the next couple months, I'm going through many of the ways to save money. Read the whole Save Money series.] I’m opening up the Save Money series with some tips on common forms of entertainment: television, movies, music, and books. Television – Most people pay some kind of monthly subscription for television. [...]
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Save Money Mondays
I was looking at my necessary expenses the other day and I realized that I save money in many ways. It shocked me that I hadn’t previously discussed all the ways that I save money. For the next couple of months, come back each Monday for an article about saving money on nearly every category [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Review – Boston Sports at their Peak? Edition
My regular readers know that I’m from Boston and that I’m a huge sports fan. I’ve been blessed by seeing the great Celtics teams in the 80s, the Red Sox World Series in 2004, and the Patriots three Super Bowls this decade. The stars may be aligned for 2007-2008 to top all that in Boston [...]
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My One Money Advice
The Digerati Life has tagged me to give my one piece of money advice. The meme was started by Moolanomy. He’s already had the popular suggestion of “spend less then you earn.” While that may be one of the best pieces of advice, I prefer to give some new or at least different advice. For [...]
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Prosper Beats the S&P 500?
“Prosper beats the S&P 500″ – That’s the subject heading from an e-mail that appeared in my in box last night. If that surprises you it probably should. It surprised me and I support the company more than most people. However, there’s a graph and everything so it must be true, right? I looked a [...]
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Advertising versus Previous Experience
Earlier this week, I was reading how marketing affects how children perceive food at Get Rich Slowly. The original study claims that low-income children from age 3-5 perceived store-bought food in McDonalds’ wrappers as better tasting. Five immediate thoughts came to mind: Was it advertising or marketing that made the food appear to be taster… [...]
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Market Timing with 401K Contributions
Last Week, I said now was a great time invest in stocks. Those who listened to me are probably upset as the Dow continued to drop from around 13,250 to 12,700. They may get more upset with me in the coming weeks and months. I’m confident that in years though, they’d come to love me. [...]
