Archive for December, 2007
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Weekend Personal Finance Links – Giving Congrats Edition
I opened up this month’s Money Magazine and found a surprise. On page 68, there’s a mention to two of my favorite blogs: Get Rich Slowly and Consumerism Commentary. If you’ve been reading this site for some time, it should be no surprise that the magazine singled them out. Money Magazine didn’t particularly have a [...]
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Lending Club Reviewed
Over the last 18 months, I’ve spent more than a few words on peer-to-peer lending. Most of that has been about the first to market Prosper. Readers have occasionally asked me about Lending Club. I couldn’t give them my opinion for a few reasons. Lending Club launched the site as a Facebook application and I’m [...]
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15 Products that save Time, Money, and Space
The holidays are quickly approaching and that means shopping season is in high gear. Good luck going to a mall. It’s too crowded for my taste. I’ll be getting almost all of my gifts on Amazon and Ebay. For the rest, I’ll pick up gift cards from the local drugstore. I know some people hate [...]
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Time Alone is Time Well Spent
[The following is a guest post from Matt Wolfe. He authors the How I Will Be Rich. I encourage you to subscribe to his RSS feed.] Spend some time alone. How often do you really get a chance to get away and be alone in silence? If you are like most people, in this day [...]
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Two Monday Thoughts About Prosper
If you’ve spent any time in the archives or if you are a long time reader, you’ll know that I used to write about Prosper.com quite often. I’ve since taken this blog in a more general finance direction. However, I find that I need to continue to cover the peer-to-peer lending space since it’s quite [...]
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Weekend Links – Shaking Hands with the Best Hands in the World Edition
Earlier this week, I read about an opportunity that I just knew my wife and I had to take advantage of. I’ve talked about being a huge football fan in the past. My wife is a big fan American Idol and the combination of reality/game show that have recently become popular – she simply Doesn’t [...]
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Zecco for My Retirement Funds?
Often times, I’m Lazy, but never so much with 401k plans from past jobs I have held. I know I should transfer the money to a Rollover IRA. This would save me money in administrative fees. It would also give me more choice in investments. If I wanted to buy a gold ETF I could. [...]
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Ten Things I Hate About Monster.com’s Job Search
I decided to bite the bullet and begin the job search again. The first step in this process was to update my Monster.com resume. I had forgotten about all the negative things that come with that simple action. I know there are many job sites out there. It may be time for me to start [...]
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Festival of Frugality #102
Welcome to the 102nd edition of the Festival of Frugality. For those unfamiliar with the festival, I review a lot of submissions from around the personal finance blogosphere and beyond. Rather than have a fancy theme, I thought I’d give my thoughts on almost all of those submissions. As my regular readers know, sometimes I’m [...]
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Email Subscriptions Now Fixed
For a long time, e-mail subscriptions were broken. I’m happy to announce that this is now fixed. For those who prefer to get their daily dose of Lazy Man in their in-box, simply type your e-mail address in the form below and hit submit: As usual we’ll never sell or distribute your e-mail address to [...]
