People often debate the merits of one credit care versus another, as though certain cards have what even seems like a virtue at first glance! But is that really true? Credit cards are something of a financial iceberg—the part you can see looks almost benign—and sometimes even pleasant–but the part you don’t see is where most of the costs are hiding. And those hidden costs are buried in places we don’t often look.
Financial Blogger Conference 2011 – Meeting the PF Blogger World and More
I woke up at the crack of dawn, if you can call stumbling out of bed, cursing the alarm waking up. Strike that, it was about an hour before dawn. At best I had four hours of sleep. I had an hour to get up, shower, and finish putting my stuff together before I hopped a cab to catch my flight to the inaugural Financial Blogger Conference. Sleep be damned, I was excited!
With complete coincidence, this article is publishing on what is my fourth anniversary, blogging with Free From Broke. Four years is like, I don’t know what that’s like in blog years! There was no iPhone or iPad when I started, that’s one thing.
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Cheap, Inexpensive, and Frugal Halloween Costume Buying Tips
Halloween is great fun! I remember how exciting it was going around town in my Halloween costume, getting candy from all of the neighbors. I still get to enjoy that now through my kids!
Do you remember those old Halloween costumes? You know the ones that came in a box and it was made up of a thin plastic mask with eye holes that hurt and it was held onto your head with an elastic piece that usually didn’t last the night and the body of the costume was a plastic sack-like piece you climbed into which also didn’t make it through the night? Those were great! I remember one year I was Chewbacca and another I was Yoda ( I remember terrorizing my younger sister with those masks too; I was such a stinker!). I’m sure I was Superman and Batman as well.
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Citi® Dividend World MasterCard® – $300 Cash Back | Review
Are you looking for a cash back card that can give you up to 5% back on your purchases? CitiBank has a limited time offer on their Citi Dividend World MasterCard that can earn you $300 cash back in three months as well as 5% on rotating categories. Let’s review the Citi Dividend World MasterCard and see what else is in store for you when you sign up.
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What is a Solopreneur?
Solopreneur is a word that applies to many people and yet they don’t know it.
“What is a solopreneur,” you might ask?
Simply stated, a solopreneur is an entrepreneur who works solo; and this makes perfect sense. Now just because the word solo is in there doesn’t mean to think small – always think big.
Thanks to the online marketplace there has been an explosion of solopreneurs. Operating a business from the privacy and comfort of home appeals to thousands of people and the Internet helps to facilitate this goal. Depending on the type of business, not only is this simple to do but very little capital is required to get things off the ground. [Read more…] about What is a Solopreneur?