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Save Money on Valentine’s Day
The past couple of years, I’ve been slow post my annual Valentine’s Day tips. If I put you in a position to come up with something at the last minute, I apologize. If it makes you feel any better, I’ve been in the same boat with you. At least this year we are getting jump [...]
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Friends’ Influence and Money: A Two Way Street
I often write a lot of words on saving money. Cut out this expensive item… consider substituting this other item… Sometimes I write about making more money. However, I very rarely go into the psychology behind making and spending money. Today, I’m going to venture into those waters… and hopefully avoid drowning. I first read [...]
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How I Research a Purchase
Personal finance sites put a lot of attention on saving money, investing, even career advice. I haven’t read a lot of information on how research a product before you buy it. Today I’d like to share with you my thoughts and maybe in comments you can teach me a thing or two. How much research [...]
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Utah State Employees Getting a Four Day Work-Week
The state of Utah recently decided that it could save money by letting it’s employees work four day work weeks. Employees will work 10 hours a day and receive the same pay as usual. My mother, a nurse, actually had this set-up for a long time. She quite enjoys it and finds that she can [...]
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Money Magazine July 2008 Highlights
When I was going through my mail last week, I noticed something interesting. It seemed like I got a flier that was thicker than usual. Wait, it was this month’s Money Magazine. It feels like the slimmest edition of Money Magazine I’ve seen… yet, I happen to have the July 2007 copy handy and they [...]
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Best Credit Card for Foreign Travel? (Ask the Readers)
Last week, I mentioned how my wife and I are going on ambitious trip to Phuket (and Australia). It’s been a little while since I went outside the US. Last year, we went to Aruba, but I’m so familiar with saving money in Aruba, that I didn’t feel the need to conserve every last cent. [...]
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Carnival of Personal Finance #150
Welcome to the 150th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. It amazes me to see the 150 number there. I had grand notions of tying all 115 accepted submissions into a good story. However, with the Comcast outage in my area yesterday, I scrambled today to get all the submissions in the form that [...]
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Why You Won’t Read a SmartyPig Review Today
A couple of weeks back the fine folks at SmartyPig wrote me to tell me about their new service. They even offered me a $50 gift card to either try the service or give away to a reader. I decided to keep it for three reasons: I have had a bad history with giveaways in [...]
