Category Archive for: ‘Uncategorized’

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  Stretching Your Food Budget During Hard Times

  photo credit: yomi955 This is a guest post by Melissa at Master Your Card where she blogs about how to use credit cards wisely. Check out her great credit card blog and subscribe here! Tough times are all around us. It seems that the price [...]

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• Managing Chaos And Working My Way Back

  photo credit: Perla* I’m here in our hotel room trying to beat the clock as my final is due at 12am but with so much on my mind, blogging has helped me get thoughts down that otherwise just take up space so bear with me. [...]

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• Taking a Weekend Break

  photo credit: CrrazyChaz I will be taking a break from blogging until Monday.  My father in law had a stroke last night and my husband and I are headed north to see him in the hospital and discuss the next step with his doctors as [...]

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• Women, Men & Money: How Are We Different?

  photo credit: AMagill This is a guest post by JB. He is 23 years old and writes at Get Rich or Die Trying where he blogs about the struggles of everyday financial life and his dreams of becoming rich along with how he plans to [...]

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• Rethinking the Cost Benefit Analysis of a Hybrid

  photo credit: pedrosimoes7 Mom at Wide Open Wallet posted a response to my article, Top 5 Hybrid SUVs Ranked by MPG which resulted in my testing of our car’s MPG. The results? Our car, the beater that it is gets on average 26-27 mpg which [...]

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• The 149th Carnival Of Personal Finance Is Live

  photo credit: Pear Biter Check out the 149th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance which went live this morning. Frank, did an awesome job of organizing and hosting this edition, love the theme and the pictures. All the articles were good, but the following [...]

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• Last Minute Taxes? H&R Block Has The Answer

  Waiting until the last minute to file your taxes does not mean that you have to shell out a lot of money. In fact, H&R Block is offering TaxCut Basic for the low, low price of FREE. Start here Need some tips? Check out over [...]

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• Tips and Ideas for a Cheap Girlfriends Getaway Weekend

  photo credit: muha… I am in the midst of planning a couples getaway for a few girlfriends and our significant others, I’ll share what we’ve come across so far. Given rising gas costs and air fares I thought it important that we consider all options. [...]

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

  photo credit: Dawn Endico Spring time is upon us and that meant really great weather here in DC this week. Sadly, for me this meant being shackled down in the library and the home office trying to meet several deadlines for my classes. Never fear [...]

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  Lessons in Value, Neccessity, Price and Convenience All Wrapped up in a $3k a Month Apartment

  This has been my dilemma. Saturday we went apartment hunting back in our old neighborhood and I was in heaven! Just being in the area brings back old memories of our courtship, planning the wedding, sunning myself on the roof and out by the pool [...]

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• The Bill Manager: New Addition to the Personal Finance Arsenal

  Ive been looking for different ways to be reminded of which bills are being paid on what day via a calendar of sorts. Since I stopped using Microsoft Money and Mint doesn’t have a calendar I was hard pressed to figure out how to get [...]

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• Girls Just Wanna Have Funds T-Shirts are here!

  Here are a few of the shirts from the Girls Just Wanna Have Funds t-shirt shop for the discerning woman:       I really like this messenger bag! You can also check out the rest of the items here.

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  Carnival of Women’s Personal Finance: Part Deux

  I’d like to re-introduce the Carnival of Women’s Personal Finance to everyone. This is a Blog Carnival that seeks out posts related to personal finance and women. Please be careful to only submit posts of this nature as only those following submission guidelines will be [...]

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  Brown Eliminates Tuition for Lower Income Students

  Brown is following in the footsteps of Ivy League institutions Harvard, Yale Dartmouth and Stanford, by eliminating tuition for students whose parents earn less than 60k. I don’t know about you but this is awesome news! This will definitely lessen the gap between students who [...]

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  DC Metro: Check Me Out This Evening On Fox 5 News @ 5pm

  This is my second interview with Fox 5 News and it will air this evening on Fox 5 News DC at 5pm! We discussed things that I am doing around the house to be frugal during hard economic times. Stacie, the reporter made fun of [...]

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