Archive for November, 2008

Forget New Years, Start Making Your Financial Resolutions Today

Friday, November 21st, 2008

With less than six weeks until the end of the year, many people start planning to turn the page to the new year:  vacations during winter break, planning holiday/new year’s parties, thinking about new year’s resolutions.  It is the last item that deserves more careful consideration, specifically with resolutions revolving around finances.  Many people make [...]

Credit Is Not the Enemy, You Are!

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

Cars, prescription drugs, food, power tools, information.  You may be asking yourself what they have to do with credit: absolutely nothing, at least directly.  But, indirectly they all have something very important in common with credit: responsibility.  Each one of those items, used responsibly can be of great benefit, but once the line is crossed toward irresponsibility, [...]

Use store receipts to assist in savings

Monday, November 17th, 2008

A couple of days ago I commented on a post over at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… called “Five Concrete Ways To Pay Yourself First“.  My message was a reiteration of some advice that I had heard some time ago regarding taking savings from coupons and promotional pricing at stores and depositing it into a [...]

Be wary of advice from forums and blogs

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Earlier today I finished a post on my business blog entitled “Stop hiding out on the internet and show yourself” in which I advise people to stop hiding behind their computers and screen names and let the people they are talking to in blogs and forums who they are in order to build trust and [...]

New financial forum

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

I have been contacted to help moderate a fairly new finanical forum called Financial Advice Forum.  It’s topics cover credit, debt, loans, consumer, and legal advice, and also provies a reciprocal links page which includes a thumbnail of your homepage as well as a brief description of your site’s purpose.  It is free to join, [...]


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