January 2009

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Five for Friday! – January 30, 2009

After being late last week on my Five for Friday post, I wanted to make sure that didn’t happen again. So I set a goal, and I achieved the goal. As a matter of fact I actually finished it early due to staying home one day because of bad weather. Here are my five picks [...]

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Saving For An Emergency

One of the greatest fears in the world of personal finance occurs when an emergency hits. When I say emergency, I am not talking about waiting until Christmas Eve to start your Christmas shopping, I mean a true emergency. The average U.S. family has little to no savings set aside to address a true financial [...]

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I’m Debt Free!

I probably should have saved this one for my “Five for Friday” roundup, but it was so good that I decided to go ahead and post it today so it could encourage you as much as it encouraged me. NCN over at NoCreditNeeded, lists 20 things that rock about being debt free. I totally concur [...]

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Just say no?

During the 80′s and 90′s the phrase “Just say no!” was pushed as the newest idea in drug education. The idea was to teach kids that it was ok to ‘just say no’ to drugs. There was nothing wrong with telling the kid offering you a joint that you were too smart to smoke dope. [...]

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Five for Friday (on Saturday January 24)

It is amazing how quickly the week speeds by when you are really busy at work. So quickly that this week’s ‘Five for Friday’ wasn’t ready on Friday, but that didn’t stop other bloggers from posting some interesting articles. Here they are: Peter at Bible Money Matters shares his journey down refinance lane FMF presents [...]

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I want my 401(k) back!

I think everyone will agree that 2008 was not a good year for the stock market, retirement accounts (including 401k’s and IRA’s) or just about anything else where savings or investing was concerned. The Dow Jones lost more than 33% over the last 12 months and that number has been the focus of a lot [...]

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