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FFB’s Festive Link Love Carnivality #1

December 21, 2007

I see people hosting all of these carnivals and festivals that I take part in but I don’t have the nerve yet to host one myself. So instead I’m creating my own: FFB’s Festive Carnivality! What’s great about this is it’s all determined by me. I’ll list carnivals and festivals I took [...]

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My 401(k) Is Killing Me, I’ll Never Retire!

December 20, 2007

It’s getting towards the end of the year so I logged into my 401(k) account at Fidelity to see how it’s doing. It’s not good. My return for the year is real low. Like, I could make more in an ING account low. Will I ever be able to retire? What [...]

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Interesting Credit Card Marketing From AAA and Bank Of America

December 19, 2007

My wife paid her credit card a couple of days late. Between work and taking care of the kids (that includes me too) she forgot the exact due date. It isn’t a card that’s used often. It happens. Unfortunately we got hit with a no payment fee (about $30) and an [...]

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I’ve Stumbled And I Can’t Get Up!

December 18, 2007

Yesterday I had the fortune of seeing three of my posts stumbled from the site Stumble Upon. I’ve had a couple of others stumbled but never three in one day! To say the visits for the day increased would be an understatement! I was in shock watching the numbers rise along the [...]

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My Daughter Shocked Me With A Credit Card Question

December 17, 2007

This past weekend my daughter made me do a double take! I told you last week about the post Your Children Are Watching. What Are you Teaching? by Being Frugal. In it BF talks about financial responsibility in front of your children and making sure they understand what credit cards are. [...]

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Linkeddy Link Link!

December 14, 2007

Money Smart Life hosted the 130th Carnival of Personal Finance which included my post Family – Can’t Live With ‘Em…Unless It Helps Debt
Plonkee Money hosted the 103rd Festival of Frugality which included my I Want To Save But I Want To SPEND, SPEND, SPEND!!
Web Dosh hosted Blog To Earn which included The BlogRush Game I [...]

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Frugal Places We Shop

December 12, 2007

We live in New York City and as such we probably have access to some of the most luxurious shopping in the world. Luckily for our bank accounts we don’t really visit them.
Here are some of the frugal places we go to shop:
Target – Target’s great! They have a little bit of everything [...]

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