November 2008

Cost Of Black Friday Is Death For Walmart Worker

by Glen Craig

Shameful. Disgusting. Sad. Sick. I don’t know.  What words can accurately describe how I feel after hearing the news today. If you didn’t hear, a 34 year old man who worked at Walmart was trampled to death early this morning.  Minutes before the doors officially opened anxious shoppers rushed through the doors of Walmart in [...]

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Eight Things I’m Thankful For On Gobble Day

by Glen Craig

I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving! In the spirit of Thanksgiving here is what I am thankful for: My Family and Friends- My wife, daughter, son, and everyone else…I am who I am in large part because of you and I’m thankful to have you in my life. My Home – I’m grateful that [...]

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Medical Treatment And Your Credit

by Glen Craig

It’s a common theme on the news and in the papers, the cost of virtually everything is going up and more and more families are finding it harder to keep up with monthly expenses, let alone what happens in an emergency situation, especially a medical one. As health care costs rise and medical insurance costs [...]

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Personal Finance Resource Links

by Glen Craig

I haven’t done a roundup in a bit.  Consider these link as a resource of great personal finance articles around the web as well as some other interesting bits and blog carnivals/festivals Free From Broke took part in. And now some great articles from around the web: It’s Not Savings Unless You Save It So [...]

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Reader Help: Building A CD Ladder

by Glen Craig

I got an email from a reader named Janine W recently. She had a couple of questions about starting up a CD ladder.  I gave her some advice and then I thought that getting some reader input might help. Here’s Janine’s email: Hi, I was reading your article on CD ladders for beginners. I have [...]

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Tip’d – A Social Community For Financial Articles

by Glen Craig

Have you heard about Tip’d yet? Do you like finance articles or financial news articles?  If you haven’t checked it out you need to.  Tip’d just officially launched to the public (it was previously in beta). But what is Tip’d? Tip’d is a social media site where users submit their favorite finance related articles. Users [...]

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Never Mind A New Economic Stimulus Package – Save Yourself!

by Glen Craig

There’s been a lot of talk in the news about a new economic stimulus package.  Some are talking about a new one being approved this year while others speculate that it won’t happen until President-Elect Obama takes office.  There’s been talk that a new economic stimulus package would be more infrastructure and not checks as [...]

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Festive Link Love Carnivality #31

by Glen Craig

Welcome back to Free From Broke‘s Festive Link Love Carnivality where I update you on blog carnivals and festivals and share some great articles I’ve read. These are the Carnivals Free From Broke participated in: Master Your Card hosted the Carnival of Personal Finance – Financial Armageddon Edition.  This included my article What Are Your [...]

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6 Ways Eating Out Less Has Made Our Family Better

by Glen Craig

As you know we are living off of one income now. It’s been a bit different but I think we’re doing well so far.  One thing we’ve done to help stretch my paycheck is to cut back eating out so often.  I didn’t think we ate out too much before the income switch but now [...]

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Vote!

by Glen Craig

Vote Because it is your right to do so. Vote Because you have a chance to make your voice heard. Vote Because you take decisions into your own hands and you want someone in the government whose ideas are like you own. Vote If you don’t vote then you have no right to complain about [...]

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