Ginger’s Friday Roundup: Favorite Personal Finance Posts of the Week

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How to Be Wealthy While Young!

This is a great article for those of us like myself who sometimes think that I’ll be 60 before I see real wealth. I can especially relate to reducing the cost of the wedding and investing the second salary as this is our plan when I finally graduate and get full time work LOL! We’re living on one salary now so when I do get a real job that will be extra which we plan to invest.

What Do You Want To Do When You Grow Up?

As always Millionaire Mommy Next Door keeps me on my toes with her thought provoking articles. This week she asks What Do You Want To Be When You Grow Up? She asks the hard and important questions. I’ve decided to make this an exercise and see where it takes me. I want to be able to work for myself within a few years so this is worth reading.

Frugal & Fabulous in the City?

Dr. Yakini talks about being Frugal and Fabulous in the City. She says “Frugality can even be fun! And it can also help you sleep more peacefully at night, knowing that you are not in debt over that second and salmon pair of Jimmy Choos you charged to your Visa because you just HAD to have to have them in eggplant purple ” AMEN!

How to get the cheapest flight every single time.

AUBlog talks about how to get the cheapest fight every time. While these are tactics I already use being the consummate cheap flyers we are, I was really impressed by the resources and information in the comments area of the post. People really know what they’re doing and I was quite surprised to see everything else that we can do to save money on flights. This is a must read!

Examples of how poor people can get ahead financially

I thought of a commenter that comments regularly on various personal finance sites including mine at one time. He/she seems to think there is no way out of the rut they seem to be in but this article proves otherwise. Hard work, determination, and a can-do attitude make all the difference and I hope MW reads this article. So many of us think we are doomed to remain in our present situations and this is just not true. Make a plan, work at it until you see results.

Comcast Bills for Two Months of Service on First Bill

I was a bit fired up about this post, not the post itself but about Comcast. I really wish that they’d get their act together but I am so turned off by their customer service that our FIOS install date can’t get here fast enough. I appreciate them making an outward effort to troll the Internet and say IM SORRY, but that doesn’t help if you still employ the inept customer service reps which give us the impression that you don’t care about your customers.

College Loan Consolidation – 5 Routes to Relief

Luke @ RealWorldReally gives us solid information on how to consolidate those pesky student loans. Plan ahead!