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Finder’s Keeper’s

Remember being young and coming across something that didn’t belong to you, yet piqued your interest, and showed some promise of being beneficial. The phrase we used to claim the ‘found’ item was, “Finders Keepers, Losers Weepers”. Basically we found it, so we are going to keep it, and the person that lost it, is [...]

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Five For Friday!

JLP at AllFinancialMatters does a thing every Tuesday (or almost every Tuesday) called Ten for Tuesday, where he lists ten articles or posts that he has come across that would interest his readers. I don’t have quite that much time available but I love the idea, so I am going to start a Five For [...]

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How is your savings plan?

You can’t go more than a day or so without hearing someone talking about the economy. Usually, the discussion focuses on the impact of increasing food prices, the fluctuation in gas prices, the next big government bailout mistake, or other such topic. One thing that I don’t hear a lot about is personal savings goals. [...]

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A renewed desire to save

Based on a USA Today article, the personal savings rate for the July-September 2008 quarter was 1.3 percent. That means that on average, people saved 1.3 cents of every dollar earned during that 4 month period. Before you say, “that’s impossible”, would you be surprised to know that 1.3 percent is almost two times the [...]

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What are you doing with your money

Since starting this blog I have been frequenting several other blogs and doing a lot of reading on what others are saying about becoming financially free. Some of the things I read I like and some things I wonder where in the world they got that idea. Occasionally, I come across a post that requires [...]

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