Archive for March, 2008
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Cruises, a Frugal Vacation?
When I got married last year, I had this brilliant plan for a honeymoon – a cruise. It simply couldn’t miss – seven days of all inclusive lodging and food for $542 a person. While we could have looked at more expensive cruises. However, the bargain cruise included everything we were [...]
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Weekend Links: The Next Generation of Personal Finance Tools
Friday was a highlight in my personal finance writing career. NetworthIQ and Expensr hosted a meeting in San Francisco. I got to meet Flexo, Jim, SVB, J.D. and his wife, Cap, Sam, John, Jeffrey, and James. The idea was to brainstorm about the next generation of personal finance tools. If [...]
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Mailbag: Hacking your credit score, Too Much P2P, and Giving Away $150
One of my favorite sports writers, Bill Simmons blends humor, pop-culture, and sports into a very successful column for ESPN. My favorite column of his is the mailbag. He publicly answers select questions from his readers. Many times the readers set him up with a punch line joke, the way that [...]
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The Future of P2P Lending – Dusting Off My Crystal Ball
Remember the good old days of 1998? The Internet was going to change everything. Analysts predicted that we were going to buy our books, music, pet supplies, and groceries over the Internet. It’s ten years later and the analysts were right about the first two and wrong about the last two. [...]
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StickK to Your Goals
Have you ever made a goal and resolution only to fall short? Come on, admit it, we all have. I’m way behind on my goal to complete a Personal MBA this year. Motivation is the main reason why we don’t finish what we start. In my case, I am struggling [...]
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Living the High Life
When you grow up in Boston, you are predestined to be a Red Sox fan. For the first 27 years of my life, it was a miserable experience – the Red Sox lost every big game in every imaginable way. The tide has turned the last four baseball seasons. Their two [...]
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Sundry Monday: Cheap Candy, Liz Phair, How To Make Your Neighbors Jealous, and More Feed Problems
It seems like I’m running in a hundred different directions lately. My wife has had a cold for the last few days, so I’ve been on chicken noodle soup duty. The part time job that I mentioned previously has come through – stay tune for more details on that in the future. [...]
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Weekend Links – Announcing The Money Writers Edition
For about a year now, I’ve been part of a loose network of bloggers. These bloggers included The Sun’s Financial Diary, Money Smart Life, The Digerati Life, and Generation X Finance have consulted with each other to improve our blogs and our writing. We’ve recently decided to formalize the relationship and [...]
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Feeling Poor: Here Are The Two Largest Reasons Why
In a personal finance forum I frequent, a person posted a link to a survey of what people are looking for in personal finance tools. There were a new member to the forum. Since they hadn’t contributed anything to the forum, I didn’t feel the need to help them out. In [...]
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Hack Your Credit Score?
When I was at Prosper’s annual conference, CEO Chris Larsen flashed through an interesting slide. It showed a borrow with a grade D credit score having gotten a loan at 1% interest. This is far from the norm. Often someone with a credit score will end with an interest rate over [...]
