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Spring is here again, and so is Free Money Finance’s March Madness! Last year I was lucky enough to come out on top as the winner, and this year one of my posts has somehow found itself in the running for top personal finance post of the year again! There have already been 2 rounds of voting, and we were able to advance against stiff competition.
Round 3, or the Sweet Sixteen, launched today! If you feel so inclined, please head on over to Free Money Finance and vote for me, and help put me over the top! Just vote for my article, Managing Your Money Is An Exercise In Both Mathematics And Psychology (Psych) in the comments.
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Staying Solvent in Bad Economic Times Every day, the news about the economy seems to be getting worse and people across the world are concerned that they will be personally affected by the changes. In many cases, they already are when you consider how the cost of living has gone up, gas prices that seem to...... -
Personal Finance Links (Avatar Edition) This is coming a little late, but I wanted to make mention that if you haven't seen Avatar you should definitely go. I didn't really have much interest in it, nor did I know anything about the story, but after seeing it three times I can say it's a great,......
It’s time to start the new year off with a bang! Bible Money Matters has partnered with Money Crashers and a host of other sites to bring together a contest that will give away over $5,600 in cash and prizes to some extremely lucky winners!
We’ve partnered with various finance companies and bloggers to put together over $5,600 in sweet prizes – including $1,510 in cash, $855 in gift cards, the entire line of Apple iPod mp3 players, 2 Amazon Kindles, a whole bunch of popular finance books, and much much more.
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Planning Your Trades And Avoiding Stress When you first start to trade you have a choice to make about your lifestyle and how you want to trade. It is important to understand that trading can actually be very addictive. Why? Well in some ways its like being in a casino. If you don’t have a plan,...... -
Sunday Money Roundup: Prepping For Another Cross Country Drive Edition. Well, it's the holidays and that means it's time to travel. When you live 2000 miles away from everyone else in your family, guess what? You have to go to them as they all won't be coming to you. And because I was planning on bringing my sick cat back......
UPDATE: The contest has closed. Our $25 gift card winner was chosen at 12pm on Tuesday. Our winner is Matt Jabs over at http://www.debtfreeadventure for comment #53 – for subscribing to the site! Thanks to everyone else who entered!


Last year the nice folks at Marshalls and T.J. Maxx were nice enough to send us some $25 gift cards so that I could go and do some last minute Christmas shopping and then write about my”frugal shopping trip“. I went on my shopping trip the day before Christmas, and I got a ton of stuff for $25. I was impressed with just how much stuff you could get at their stores for such a minimal amount.
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My experience with LendingTree, and free gift cards Jim told his readers about his experience with LendingTree and he was pretty impressed with it. I was also impressed with it when I did my mortgage refinance a couple of years ago.Jim's article is good (as always), but I disagree that the banks aren't competing for your business. On...... -
How Some Readers Stretched Their Gift Budgets (And The Gift Card Winner) We had a total of fifteen comments that qualified for the Marshalls/TJ Maxx gift card giveaway. I used Random.org to generate the winning comment (each comment is numbered). Comment 12 from Sarah R is the winner! Congratulations Sarah! I've already sent an email to get mailing info to send out......





Credit Cards: Why I Love Them And Why I Hate Them
Why I Love My Credit Card
If you’re read my site for a while you may be a bit surprised to find out that I actually do use a credit card. I’m usually the one that’s first to tell people that they shouldn’t use credit, and that they should save up for things that they buy. Read more... (857 words, 11 images, estimated 3:26 mins reading time)
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