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One of the more popular internet searches that lead people here to Gather Little by Little is the term “UFF MMA Scam”. I wrote about the United First Financial (UFF) Money Merge Account (MMA) back in October after receiving a flier from one of my sons football coaches. Being fairly new [...]
April 30th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 16 Comments
Revolution Money Exchange is a new way to exchange money online. Like Paypal, Revolution money Exchange allows you to send and receive money online. But that’s where the similarities end. Which product is better? That depends on what you are trying to. Run an online business? Paypal may be your best [...]
April 29th, 2008 | Posted in Free Money Deals & Offers, Money Management | 12 Comments
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This is a guest post from Momma who blogs at Tales from the road less traveled. Momma and her family are on the road from debt to financial independence and she writes about the journey on her blog. If you what you read, make sure you subscribe to her blog [...]
April 26th, 2008 | Posted in Guest Posts, Money Management | 31 Comments
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I’ve wanted a BMW for years. I’ve always admired the looks, the performance, the style, and the quality. Being a car nut, there are many other makes and models I like, but BMW has always been at the top of my car short list. My all time favorite being the [...]
April 24th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 21 Comments
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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 contract and full time IT positions. I interview for positions on my team and also assist other managers when they are interviewing. Lately, I’ve been [...]
April 9th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 43 Comments
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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. [...]
March 18th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 30 Comments
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 [...]
March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 18 Comments
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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 [...]
March 8th, 2008 | Posted in Guest Posts, Money Management | 18 Comments
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 [...]
March 5th, 2008 | Posted in Kids and Money, Money Management | 31 Comments
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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 [...]
February 16th, 2008 | Posted in Guest Posts, Money Management | 10 Comments
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 [...]
February 11th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 11 Comments
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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 [...]
February 9th, 2008 | Posted in Guest Posts, Money Management | 12 Comments
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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 [...]
February 5th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 25 Comments
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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 [...]
January 24th, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 52 Comments
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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 [...]
January 23rd, 2008 | Posted in Money Management | 5 Comments