December 2009
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8 Techniques to Boost Your Emergency Fund
Just starting an emergency fund as a part of a New Year’s resolution? Trying to boost an existing one? No worries: the following guest post has you covered with some great tips on how to find a little cash for your “rainy day fund.” In this harsh economic environment, there is hardly a better time [...]
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Comments (12)The Case for a Paper Address Book
Yesterday I had a bit of a scare. Some people rather important to me left my apartment in a car, and we’d had a big snowstorm this weekend. I didn’t know how good the roads were, and when I called them to ask about something trivial a few minutes later, none of them answered their [...]
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Last Minute Gift Idea: Textbooks
You may feel funny getting the student in your life something as totally lame as textbooks for a gift. But if they’re cash-strapped like I was over the course of my education, it may end up being the gift they appreciate most this season. It feels like a big weight has been lifted when you [...]
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Top 10 Films About Money
As a movie buff and film school graduate, this guest post is very near and dear to Stephanie’s heart. It combines two disciplines that she’s obviously obsessed with: movies and money. This article was contributed by the Canadian life insurance specialists at LifeCover.ca. 1. There Will Be Blood (2007) A quote about the unabashed pursuit [...]
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Get $64.62 to Invest with Lending Club
Maybe you’ve been following my Lending Club experiment for months, or you’re just hearing about how to invest money with Lending Club now. Either way, I’m sure you’re intrigued by the idea of a free $64.62 bonus! Why $64.62? According to the email Lending Club sent me, it’s because “last quarter, banks made $6.462 billion [...]
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Holiday Gift Giving on a Student Budget
Kathryn Katz is a working mom, internet marketer and professional copywriter. Kathryn is a Certified Personal Finance Counselor and works for Consolidated Credit Counseling Services. The non-profit credit counseling agency offers a Holiday Survival Guide to help shoppers navigate through holiday shopping. The holidays are right around the corner. You’ll be leaving the dorm to [...]
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Nope, We Don’t Have Cable
We didn’t “cut the cable cord,” we never had it installed in our apartment. And yet, the boyfriend and I are total “Heroes” and “LOST” addicts – how do we live? I’ve written about how to live without television before, but I wasn’t really doing it back then, because I was living with my parents, [...]
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8 Ways to Save Big in the Home Office
This week’s guest post comes from a talented guy named Tom. Like most people Tom spends five days per week working in an office, for an environmentally conscious supplier of cheap printer cartridges specializing in HP toners and ink where saving money and recycling is a mantra. You can read more of his work on [...]
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Net Worth Update: November 2009
It’s time to put a cap on November and start in on all the joys and pains of December! But before we move on completely, let’s have a looksie at the progress I made in November: Change: $920 or 2.37 % Hot. A lot of this month was about playing catch-up. I stopped contributing to [...]
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