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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #29 (May 10, 2008) 2008-05-10 03:01:56 Some good stuff this week including “How To Use Any Credit Card At Costco“, “How To Get Quality Financial Advice“, and “What Pizza Do Investors Eat?” Readership was a little down this week, not so much buzz here, but I’m working on some good stuff on the backend that I think is pretty interesting. [...] Read more:Hanks
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Net Worth Update May 9, 2008 [$120,697.64 (+3.55%)] 2008-05-13 03:01:22 We’re looking up again this month - looks like the mutual funds are coming back a little bit this month. Both the wife and I had good 401k returns this month. The house dropped a bit, but that’s to be expected, but overall we’re looking up again.
I’m still keeping my eye on a [...] Read more:Worth
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Lower Your Monthly Power Bill, Make $256, And Save The World! 2008-05-12 03:01:08 Ok, the title was catchy enough to get you I’m a fan of saving $$$ AND saving the earth. I dig hybrid cars. I dig reusing and recycling for both its benefits to my pocketbook and benefits to my children. I dig greendimes and my new digg-ee is UniBlue LocalCooling…
I’m [...] Read more:Lower
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Scammers Are Already Out To Take Your Rebate Check! Read This Warning! 2008-05-16 03:01:34 Just hours after I posted yesterdays post about Preventing Identity Theft, I got this email in my inbox this morning that looks VERY convincing, but if you used my tactics from yesterday, you’d know they’re trying to take your Tax Stimulus cash…
Here Is The Scam They’re Using
(click the screenshot image below to enlarge and see [...] Read more:Rebate
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I Need Your Help! 2008-05-14 03:01:43 No, nothing is wrong physically, emotionally, family-wise - All is ok on that front, thanks for your concern. I’m just looking to revamp the header of my site and just need some feed back from you folks!
I polled a couple of my TOP advisers to see what they thought, and it was a big [...]
Hanks Weekly Hangouts #30 (May 18, 2008) 2008-05-18 03:01:46 We had a good week here at MIB with some hot posts including Lower Your Monthly Power Bill, Make $256, And Save The World!, Good Customer Service Will ALWAYS Save (And Make) You Money Both As A Seller And As A Buyer, and Tips To Finding Work At Home Jobs (And A Few MORE You [...] Read more:Hanks
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Should I Pay My Credit Card Off Each Month? 2008-05-19 03:01:59 It’s always a hot topic and yet it is still one of the first questions people ask when they talk about owning their credit cards. MyFICO doesn’t hand out their magic formulas and the best you can do is to NOT use it at all if you’re worried about credit. But if you [...] Read more:Month
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Tips To Finding Work At Home Jobs (And A Few MORE You Can Do!) 2008-05-20 03:01:30 If you’re reading personal finance blogs, you’re also probably looking to keep tabs on how you can make more money as well. I’m not gonna lie, I do it myself, who DOESN’T want to make a few bucks on the side? The key is knowing what to look for…
I wrote an article earlier [...]
The Airline That Won’t Be Getting Any More Of My Money 2008-05-22 20:04:34 I am away on business this week in New York. The flight over was delayed 4 times, putting me in at around 3am to wake up for a conference at 7:30am. I haven’t been so impressed. But that is just the beginning…
I am currently typing this post from my blackberry, which actually [...] Read more:Money
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Hanks Weekly Hangouts #31 (May 25, 2008) 2008-05-25 03:01:44 It was a long week with little sleep this week and Continental Airlines didn’t help me to get any more sleep! This article actually led very well into my post about good customer service, of which they didn’t really have, but upon reading more on the web, I found that MANY people didn’t get [...] Read more:Hanks
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Introducing The Money Life Network! 2008-05-27 03:01:24 I’m proud to introduce the latest and greatest Personal Finance aggregate - The Money
Life Network! Our membership list contains a very diverse yet focused group that have been in the PF blogosphere for a while.
FreeFromBroke, BibleMoneyMatters, MilkYourMoney, PrimeTimeMoney, and MyInvestingBlog will ABSOLUTELY keep you on your toes financially with tips galore along [...] Read more:Introducing
A Practical How-To For Entrecard (Blog Improvement Post) 2008-05-30 03:01:16 Yes, this is a Blog Improvement
post (Why does a PF blogger write about Blog Improvement?). EntreCard has morphed a lot in the time since it started; most seem to say for the worst. I’m not a big fan of the new pricing system and as a consequence, I’ve fallen off the “EntreMap” [...] Read more:Practical
Hanks Weekly Hangouts #32 (May 31, 2008) 2008-05-31 03:01:22 The week tossed around a few posts that culminated in the opening of The Money Life Network! I also wrote about how you should think about ditching the “offer” Jeep is giving you for a new car purchase, reviewed an alright book, and Bumped Up My 401k Contribution!
The Top Ten List
1. FourPillars [...] Read more:Hanks
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One Of The Many “Lemonade” Moments Of My Life 2008-06-02 03:01:54 So CreditWithdrawal tagged me with this a few weeks ago and I’m just getting to it now, but better late than never. The point of the post is to define a time in your life when you were handed lemons and made lemonade. If you’ve never heard the analogy it basically means explain [...] Read more:Lemonade
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Education.com is Talking Financial Smarts for Kids 2008-06-03 03:01:07 We all know the importance of financial well-being, yet many of us are self-taught when it comes to figuring out the best way to manage our expenses, grow our savings and learn how to invest for the future. But what about our kids?
Surveys from the National Council on Economic Education
show that “nearly half of [...] Read more:Talking
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A Deeper Look at Late Payments and FICO Scores by Barry Paperno 2008-06-05 03:01:26 While anyone can tell you that late payments will hurt a credit score, what most people don’t know is that there are subtleties in just how the FICO scoring formula treats one late payment from another. For example, some typical questions about late payments are…
Why would someone with a 90 day late have a [...] Read more:Barry
Hanks Weekly Hangouts #33 (June 8, 2008) 2008-06-08 03:01:05 The week was a busy one on the “normal” front so I didn’t have time to write out the posts for the next week, but I still had some good posts in waiting that kicked off a good week of reading including A Deeper Look at Late Payments and FICO Scores by Barry Paperno, One [...] Read more:Hanks
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Net Worth Update June 6, 2008 [$113,261.38(-3.08%)] 2008-06-10 03:01:24 June wasn’t as bad as the numbers make it out to be. Yes, I lost about 3k on the net worth, but I bumped up my 401k contribution to 15% this past month along with my wifes. The 3k loss can most likely be contributed to the landscaping addition I tacked on that [...] Read more:Worth
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