I hope you’ll join me this morning in reviewing two really good resources.
First, the Carnival of Money Stories - Olympic Hangover Edition is up at Not the Jet Set. There are some really good money stories here; I particularly enjoyed these:
No More Spending.net : Cold turkey on magazines and confessions
fiscal [...]
The Carnival of Personal Finance #167 Highlights from the Beijing 2008 Olympics is up at Broke Grad Student this morning. Run right over and check it out; there are many good articles and of course the gold medal winners are definitely worth a read.
Some of the articles I particularly enjoyed include:
The Wisdom Journal: [...]
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I had a close call last week. Despite the fact that I consider myself a frugal person and a savvy consumer, I almost overspent $675 on a service last week. And I don’t know what would have been worse - the loss of money or the beating I would have given myself!
When [...]
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There’s a popular TV commercial that shows people walking around town holding large numbers under their arm. It’s a serious topic - having enough for retirement - but something about the presentation cracks me up every time I see it. If you are serious about retiring early, sooner or later you will hit [...]
This may not be a big surprise to my readers, but there are quite a few people in my life who might not guess how frugal I am. I live what appears to be a normal middle-class lifestyle in a nice suburban neighborhood. I have always been careful with my money, [...]
