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Friday Feed Frenzy – Philly Edition

Adam — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:17 +0000

Well, I am writing this from a hotel in Philadelphia. I’ve been here for almost two weeks now and I am getting pretty bored. Thankfully, my wife will be joining me this evening and hopefully we can get some quality “vacation time” in. Philly has quite a few things to do but it’s just not the same without your significant other by your side.

This weekend should be packed full of site seeing and fine dining. We are thinking of hitting the Reading Terminal Market and various art museums. I also want to take the wife out for some sushi. Know of any good sushi restaurants in Philly? Anyway, have a great weekend and enjoy these great posts from around the web!

Great Reads

Persistence Pays Off – Kelly, the new staff writer over at Consumerism Commentary, shares some thoughts on how to get to the top of the customer support pyramid.

The Last of My Debt: Student Loans – Steven from Hundred Goals only has one type of debt left and he is going to ATTACK it!

How to Avoid Paying a Mandatory Gratuity for Bad Service – Len Penzo beat me to the punch. I was going blog about this next week. You have to read this story!

The Best Career Advice: Do Stuff – Trent at The Simple Dollar talks about how just doing things in your life can lead to various other things.

Friday Feed Frenzy – Veteran’s Day Video Edition

Adam — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:00:03 +0000

I know that Veteran’s day was on Wednesday. However, we shouldn’t have to wait for a national holiday to salute our men and women in uniform. I encourage you to tell every service member that you see that you appreciate what they do for us on a daily basis. The things that they do cannot compare to what we do here at home. Watch this video as a tribute and share your appreciation when you see a soldier.

Great Reads

Debt Free Adventure shares with you his hybrid debt snowball fight. Sometimes you just need to alter your plan to do what makes sense. If you know you can still complete the debt snowball, alter it!

Get Rich Slowly has a great anti-stuff holiday gift guide. We were thinking about doing this at Christmas. Either that or get ourselves a new digital camera (or old one is a piece of crap).

Budgets Are Sexy wants to move back in with his parents (well not really). Would you do it to save a few bucks?

Frugal Dad answers a question about choosing between corporate security and freelance freedom. I think I would choose the freelance freedom!

Have a great weekend everyone! See you Monday. Maybe sooner if you are on Twitter!

Friday Feed Frenzy – Veteran’s Day Video Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy – Wedding Edition

Adam — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:00:49 +0000

Well, it’s time. Next Saturday is our wedding day! We are getting very excited for the big day and some of the stress is starting to melt away. If you don’t already know, weddings can be a VERY stressful affair (just ask my fiancee). After figuring out things such as seating charts, decorations, music selections, etc, we almost feel like it would have been better to get eloped. Well, it’s too late for that now!

Moving on, there were a lot of great posts this week. Here are some of my favorites:

MyLifeROI shares with you his three most influential lessons from his childhood.

Gen X Finance has a great post on how your home is not an investment.

Wealth Pilgrim shows you how Michael Jackson’s estate can teach you one great financial lesson.

Green Panda Treehouse breaks down their Costo membership and shows you if it was worth it.

Bargaineering gives you some ideas of how to hard reset your financial life.

Enjoy the reading and have a great weekend!

Friday Feed Frenzy – Wedding Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy: It’s Back Edition

Adam — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:10:58 +0000

Well, I decided to bring the Friday Feed Frenzy back. I was thinking about my posting schedule and this just seems like the best place to put a roundup. Lately, I have been focusing on quality over quantity in terms of my posts and would like your input. Would you rather see more posts or are you liking the higher quality (and longer) posts? I was thinking of keeping my schedule to about 2-3 finance posts per week, a roundup, and possibly something motivational on Sundays. How does that sound?

I also wanted to point out that I have a new Question and Answer section. You can click on the link to check it out and you can find the Q&A button in the navigation menu about the logo. I really enjoy receiving questions from readers and turning it into an amazing post. It ensures that I am writing about what you want and not just what’s on my to-do list. Be sure you get your questions in!

Now that I will inevitably receive your comments, it’s time to share with you some great posts that I found this week. Make sure you check out each one as I painstakingly selected them for a reason!

Great Reads

Pete from Bible Money Matters says don’t fall into the trap of not budgeting when things go well. This is a great article for those of us who have went of the path of successful budgeting. Personally, we have not sat down and done a budget since we moved in together. My income has been very inconsistent (and sparse) lately but that is no excuse.

Baker at Man Vs Debt has 27 last minute considerations before moving accross the world. If you ever have the urge to just pick up and leave the country, make sure you follow everything on this list.

Mrs Micah shows you how to set minimum freelance prices. If any of you are planning on starting a business based on your skills, this is a must read.

Jason from Improve The Quality has some tips on how to keep motivated when it isn’t fun anymore. Some great tips for those of us who get frustrated easily.

Ben at Trees Full of Money shares with you his inexpensive do-it-yourself geothermal cooling system. If I owned a house, I would totally give this a try.

Madame X from My Open Wallet shares with you a great story about her recent trip the the DC suburbs. The story talks about how she interjected some great financial education into the minds of the youth in the neighborhood.

There you have it! Have a great weekend!

Friday Feed Frenzy: It’s Back Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy – Day Off Edition

Adam — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:00:15 +0000

Woohoo! I FINALLY got a day off from work. Tax season is such a chaotic time! I am hoping to stockpile some blog posts this weekend so I don’t have such a lack of content as I did this past week. Sorry about that! Please contact me with any questions that you may have. Having questions makes the writing process a little easier for me when I have so many things going on at once!

Also, I am thinking about starting a blog on income tax (am I boring or what?). I am trying to think of some names for the site. I have thought of a few. Can you think of any? If you comment with a good name I will give you 3 additional entries to the contest that ends tomorrow night. I am starting the site to help me study for the Enrolled Agent exam. I am hoping that writing about the topic as well as answering tax questions will help me along.

Anyway, here are some posts that I enjoyed over the past week. Enjoy!

Great Posts

Pete from Bible Money Matters followed up my post on emergency funds earlier this week with how emergency funds make your life better.

Do you qualify for the Recovery Rebate Credit? TaxGirl answers that question for you!

Want to make your teenager a millionare? Frugal Dad gives some tips on how to get them there.

Nickel from Five Cent Nickel gives you the most commonly overlooked tax deductions.

Have a great weekend and I look forward to your suggestions!

Friday Feed Frenzy – Day Off Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy for January 23rd

Adam — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:00:51 +0000

Well, it’s Friday. Woohoo! It’s been a long week for me as I just started my job at H&R Block for the season. Next week will be even longer as I will be starting my other new job working from home. So, I apologize in advance if I do not post as much as I have been.

One exciting thing happened this week at Your Money Relationship. My post on 10 things to do when you graduate without a job was mentioned on the MSN Smartspending Blog.

Here are some great posts from around the blogging community this week and some carnivals that I participated in.

Great Reads

The Wisdom Journal has some great lists on the 1o ways college made them poor AND 10 ways college made them rich.

Green Panda from Green Panda Treehouse tells us what everybody ought to know about handling finances in today’s economy.

Nickel at Five Cent Nickel asks should you pay your kids for good grades?

Frugal Dad asks have we been sold a bunch of lies about money?

Pete at Bible Money Matters gives his story on trying to refinance in the current market.

Jeremy at Generation X Finance shows you how to prepare a salad to last all week.

Great Carnivals

Pecuniarities hosted this weeks edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance.

MoneyNing hosted this weeks Festival of Frugality.

Pimp Your Finances hosted this weeks Money Hacks Carnival.

Friday Feed Frenzy for January 23rd

Friday Feed Frenzy – Inauguration Edition

Adam — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:00:39 +0000

Well, by this time next week Barack Obama will officially be the President of the United States. He has a tough road ahead of him. Many people look for him to make quick and swift moves to improve the economy. I have talked about his ideas for helping individuals with retirement savings and his idea for an economic stimulus on your paycheck.

Whatever your political views, let’s hope that Obama can unite this country. Here are some links from the past week.

Great Reads

Single Guy Money is ready to quit smoking and save some money. Head over there and wish him luck in this tough journey!

Lazy Man and Money gives his insights into the cost of owning a dog. It can get pretty costly when you add up all the things!

Gen X Finance shares the five things he has done as a financial planner that you can do. Some great personal tips here!

Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity provides some tips on what to do when you get in a car accident. This is a scary thing but you should be prepared for it.

Single Guy Money is also giving away a $100 Target gift card. There are several ways to enter so head over there and check it out.

Great Carnivals

My post on 10 Things to Do When You Graduate Without a Job was mentioned in this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance hosted at The Writer’s Coin.

My post on Frugal Wedding Save the Date Cards was mentioned at the Festival of Frugality hosted at Credit Withdrawal.

Have a great weekend!

photo by: jmtimages

Friday Feed Frenzy – Inauguration Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy – Birthday Edition

Adam — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:00:29 +0000

Well, next Wednesday is my birthday! Woohoo! We are heading to PA this weekend to celebrate. There is supposed to be a big snow storm so let’s hope it doesn’t get too bad.

This week I participated in the Festival of Frugality over at The Dough Roller. My post on Frugal Wedding Cocktail Receptions was picked for the festival.

The contest continues to be very popular so make sure you continue to contribute in order to better your chances. Anyway, here are some great reads from the past week. Make sure you check them out!

The Wisdom Journal has a great list of 10 business you can start for peanuts or less. This is a great list of small businesses that are fun and very cheap to start. I know I have thought about a few of them in the past!

Have you ever wondered what the true cost of children are? Trent at The Simple Dollar has a great explanation of the costs AND benefits of having children.

JD at Get Rich Slowly has some methods for mastering your money in 2009. These are some great tips!

No Credit Needed gives his 20 things that rock about being debt free. I cannot wait until that day!

Have a great weekend!

photo by: schoschie

Friday Feed Frenzy – Birthday Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy – New Year Edition

Adam — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 19:00:36 +0000

Happy new year! I hope the new year brings you much joy and happiness! This was a short week for me as well as many other personal finance bloggers. Because of that, I do not have that many links to share with you this week. However, I do have some good news. My $50 Amazon.com contest is now running and you can learn more about it here. Here are some links I found interesting this week:

Trent at The Simple Dollar gives his 10 predictions for 2009. I happen to agree with most of these!

Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity has some great tips on how to value your clothing donations. I’ve always wondered how to do this. This should help many of you out.

Pinyo at Moolanomy gives you some tips on how to set up a Limited Liability C ompany. I have considered this recently and am contemplating doing it. I think with many new and different websites, it might be a good thing.

Frugal Dad tells you how to create your own stimulus check. Great idea for those of you who may be having trouble saving.

Have a great weekend and be sure to participate in the contest!

photo by: Daniel Voyager

Friday Feed Frenzy – New Year Edition

Friday Feed Frenzy: Jolly Saint Nick Edition

Adam — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 04:00:27 +0000

Well, Merry Christmas (or something else if you do not celebrate)! I hope you had a wonderful holiday with your family and friends. I sure know I did! It feels great to be home around my family which I missed so much over the past few months. Being halfway across the country on holidays can be rather lonely if you ask me.

Anyway, here are some articles that I enjoyed reading over the past week. There are definitely fewer than normal, but that must be due to the holidays.

Mrs. Micah informs you of an upcoming day where you can get some FREE retirement advice. I would recommend taking this organization up on their offer!

Trent at The Simple Dollar shares his list of twelve tips for cheap, low stress Christmas travel. My travels up north were fairly stressful on Tuesday due to typical Baltimore traffic as well as some accidents.

Ben at Trees Full of Money wants you to get aggressive about lowering your insurance premiums.

Pinyo at Moolanomy helps you decide if you should invest in target retirement funds. Make sure you check out the comments as there are some good ones!

Once again, I hope you have a great holiday! I will be taking the weekend off from writing but should be back at it by the middle of the next week. Also, start getting pumped up for my upcoming contest!

Photo by: makelessnoise

Friday Feed Frenzy: Jolly Saint Nick Edition

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Friday Feed Frenzy for January 23rd

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Friday Feed Frenzy – Inauguration Edition

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Friday Feed Frenzy – Birthday Edition

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