10 Things not to do during an interview

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I’m an IT manager in the “real world” and as result, a pretty large portion of my time is spent interviewing potential candidates for both [...]

How should I spend my economic stimulus rebate?

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I recently wrote an article answering the question: Is the economic stimulus package a loan? That article stimulated some discussion between my wife and I about what we will do with the money when we receive it. For us, how we will spend it is a pretty big decision. [...]

Our dumbest purchase ever

Debtkid recently shared his dumbest purchase ever and is asking others to “fess up”. As further incentive, he’s giving away his dumbest purchase ever. Unfortunately, my dumbest purchase ever isn’t near as cheap or small. Sure wish it was…
Prelude to the dumbest purchase ever
I had never been camping before in my life [...]

Joyful, Sacrificial Tithing

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The following is a guest post by Kevin of No Debt Plan.net, a blog about living a debt-free life. He hates debt, but isn’t afraid of credit cards. You can learn more about him over at his blog. If you enjoyed this article, you can subscribe to his blog via RSS.
If [...]

1 marshmallow or 2? A study on the benefits of delayed gratification

While listening to the book, Crucial Conversations a few weeks back, the authors discussed a study that was done in the 1960’s by Standford University psychology researcher Michael Mischel. His study demonstrated how important self-discipline is to success.
The study began with a group of children 4 years old. He optionally offered them [...]

The Path to Bad Decisions

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This is a guest post by Jason Anderson.  Jason is a web designer and entrepreneur who takes a sideways look at culture, politics, and anything else that comes up on his blog, The Cynical Christian. 
Money is a little like love in the way that the pursuit of it can make [...]

Save Money With Coupons - Money Saving Monday

Personally, I haven’t been a huge fan of coupons. It’s not that they won’t save you money, they definitely will. We just don’t like taking the time to sift through them, clip them out, file them, and then try to use them when grocery shopping. In particular I just haven’t found a [...]

Extreme Savers - A closer look

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This is a guest article by PT who blogs at Prime Time Money - a place where those in their prime can come to discuss money and all things personal finance. Consider subscribing to Prime Time Money via RSS.
Biking to work, cutting your own hair, growing your own veggies, buying your clothes [...]

How can they afford that?

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My wife and I have started watching re-runs of crime shows. We particularly enjoy Cold Case, Law & Order, and Law & Order SVU (Special Victims Unit). Last night we were watching an episode of Law and Order: Criminal Intent and it contained a really great dialog that involved a question [...]

Keeping it real: Confessions of a personal finance blogger

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I’ve been debating writing this article for a few days now. Confession time: for the past 2 months I have not been practicing what I preach. I’ve been wanting to share this with you: my readers, my friends, my accountability partners but to be honest though, I was afraid that you [...]

Improving your finances: Direction not perfection

m.prinke
I enjoy listening to podcasts and audio books while commuting to and from work, exercising, mowing the yard, and frankly anytime I can. I feel doing so is an effective use of my time. This past week I listened to an audio CD that I checked out from our corporate library called Crucial [...]

Are you discouraged by your finances?

One of the top 10 new years resolutions each year is something related to finances: getting out of debt, saving more money, starting a budget, investing more, etc. Many of you reading this article set one or more of these as your new years resolution(s), I did. While I don’t like resolutions, I [...]

What to do when your debit card gets stolen

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Back in October, my debit card was stolen. Working with my bank, I got it all settled, but it was very stressful. I learned a few tips and tricks though that should help you keep an eye on your debit card, watch for potential mis-use and know what to do if [...]

Why we drive two used cars instead of one

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As many of my readers know, I have a large family. There are eight of us (my wife and I and 6 children). Finding a vehicle that will haul all of us together isn’t too difficult, but they are expensive. We’ve been looking since 2006 and have narrowed our choices [...]

How we increased our net worth by more than 170% in less than a year

Joshua Davis (articnomad)
The M-Network along with many other bloggers are doing a year end net worth wrap-up. You can find links to all of the participating blogger’s articles at the end of this article.
I didn’t actually start tracking my net worth until February of 2007. I decided to start tracking it based on [...]