Personal finance

I Don’t Wanna Go To School and Roundup

by Glen Craig

Labor day weekend means one thing in our household – Good times are coming to an end! School starts up again and it’s always a bit of a sad time.  Our oldest is going to a new school so she is a little nervous about the transition while my wife has to go back to [...]

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Summer Don’t End! – And Links

by Glen Craig

Ughh, the Summer is coming to a quick close. It alwasy comes too quick.  With the new house and all it feels like we spent most of our time just taking care of things house-related.  I guess all good things must come to an end.  Still, a couple of more weeks would really be great.  [...]

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Financial Krav Maga: Personal Finance Self Defense for the Modern Era

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In East Asia, you probably know about the ninja and samurai. In Israel, there are soldiers trained in Krav Maga.  For those of you who don’t know, Krav Maga is a martial art developed in Israel.  It does not have the long tradition of respect, personal growth, and honor that come to mind when you [...]

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The First Mow and Links

by Glen Craig

If you recall, I wrote about how we are going to save on our landscaping by mowing the lawn ourselves. Well, the first mow is done!  The mowing part wasn’t hard at all and was pretty quick.  The edging and blowing were the time sucks.  It’s all a matter of getting used to the process [...]

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Upromise $100,000 College Dream Sweepstakes – and Links

by Glen Craig

From now until August 31st, 2010, Upromise has a sweepstakes going where ten lucky people will each get $10,000! This is part of their 3rd annual $100,000 Upromise College Dream Sweepstakes.  In order to enter you need to join Upromise and download their TurboSaver, an online savings reminder tool.

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Automate or Unautomate Your Finances?

by Glen Craig
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The NY Times has has an interesting article questioning how much of your finances you should automate (How Much of Your Finances Should You Automate?).  In it, the author looks at the methods of some popular personal finance writers such as Ramit Sethi of I Will Teat You To Be Rich, Adam Baker of Man [...]

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Happy Father’s Day And Links

by Glen Craig
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To all you Dad’s out there (especially mine) – Happy Father’s Day! You guys help mold us into the people we are.  Sit back, grab a cold one, and enjoy the game today!  And know what?  Here’s to the kids too.  You little rugrats (regardless of age) are what make being a Dad great!

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Term VS Whole Life Insurance – What Do The Numbers Show?

by Glen Craig
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Craig/FFB, just wrote a great article discussing the differences between Term and Permanent Life Insurance, and to my amazement he was very fair when it came to permanent life insurance.  Most financial bloggers aren’t as partial, and spout (without ever running numbers) the standard “buy term and invest the difference” kool aid. So I asked [...]

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Thesis 1.7 And Links 4-25-10

by Glen Craig
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Are you a blogger?  This time of the year is great for spring cleaning. A great way to clean up the code on your site and make it run and look AWESOME is to use the Thesis theme/framework.  It’s what I use on Free From Broke and I love it!  Thesis 1.7 came out a [...]

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Tax Day Is Coming And Links 4-11-10

by Glen Craig

Have you gotten your taxes done yet? Its getting real close to April 15th.  You have some options to file your taxes.  If you are looking for  a tax software program then check out the review of Turbo Tax I did.  There are also a number of ways you may qualify to file your income [...]

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