Archive for June, 2009
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Save Money on Glasses and Contact Lenses
I was cleaning my glasses the other day and like the butter fingers I am, dropped them. A lens popped out. I instantly thought, “Great, I’m going to have buy new glasses now.” (I should note that I’m new to the glass-wearing crowd.) I suddenly thought, “What would happen if [...]
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Bloggers: Exclusive, Limited-Time Offer to Save Big on The Blog Traffic Exchange
While this won’t interest my general audience, the Wordpress bloggers among you might want to listen up. The Blog Traffic Exchange is very similar to your related posts plugin (you are using a related posts plugin, right?). The difference is that the Blog Traffic Exchange is related posts from around the web. [...]
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Amazon Friday Sale – “Hammock Finally?” Edition
For those of you who don’t follow my Twitter feed (and I don’t blame you since I don’t Tweet often), you may have missed my interview at The Casual Observer earlier this week. I took a light-hearted, fun approach to it, so if you are the kind of person who likes fun, you [...]
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Get Your Money Questions Answered At Moolanomy
Every has questions about money every now and again. I hoped people might make use of the contact button under my logo, but it seems most would rather have a root canal. That’s fine. You still aren’t going to get away without getting your questions answered. Moolanomy Answers is here [...]
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Can You Fix California’s Budget?
It may sound like a Saturday Night Live skit, but an organization is asking for your help with balancing the budget. Next10 has a fairly easy to understand simulator that lets you do just that. You have a choice about 4 or 5 questions in much of the areas that impact the [...]
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Poor Money Choices Ruined My Parents’ Life
[Below is a guest post from my wife. I had tried to get her to write this story for more than two years now. I imagine it was very difficult for her to write. The title is mine, which I thought was a little more catchy than "A history of growing [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Links (Palm Pre vs. iPhone Edition)
I’d like to wish all the father’s out there a Happy Father’s Day. I’m not going to go into Father’s Day very much… my father died when I was young. Also, at age 33, I’m not a father myself. I suppose I’m a daddy to our dog, Jake, but I’m not [...]
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Murphy-Goode’s Smart Marketing with New Media
Murphy-Goode Winery has an interesting job opportunity that you may or may not have heard of… a 6-month contract to be a “Lifestyle Correspondent” for Murphy-Goode Wine. It pays $10,000 a month – a fairly impressive salary considering that you get free rent on top of it. Oh you also get to [...]
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Weekend Personal Finance Links (Tuesday Edition)
If it’s good enough for Sheryl Crow (”He’s got a daughter he calls Easter… She was born on a Tuesday night…”), it’s good enough for me.
Money Writers:Brip Blap wonders will people change?
Frugal Dad writes on extreme saving when you are young: how much is too much?
Learn how to do a mid-year financial [...] -
Save Money on Groceries
Though prices have come down as the economy has slowed, there’s not much doubt that food is much more expensive today that it was in the past. It seems way out of line with inflation. Experts have cited many factors for this. Some say a change of eating habits in China [...]
