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An occasional round-up of links to some of the wisdom and words of the web’s best personal finance blogs…

The Online Brokerage Wars: E*Trade Offers Compelling Risk/Reward
at Seeking Alpha

5 Ways to Maximize the Return on your 401k
at MoneyNing

Price Drops Are Good for Young Investors in the Stock Market
at Generation X Finance

13 Quick Consumer Tips to be a Rockstar Consumer
at Stop Buying Crap

Top 10 Do’s For Fundamental Investors
at Investment Ideas!

Procrastinate your way to spending less
at Blunt Money

Somebody Slap Me - The Savings Rate is Going Up!
at Everybody Loves Your Money

I don’t want to be obsessed with money or being frugal
at Sense to Save

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An occasional round-up of links to some of the wisdom and words of the web’s best personal finance blogs…

When the Federal prime rate drops, some people are happy, but the dollar weakens; what happens then?
Some basic economics and what it means to you…

Follow-up on selling gold jewlery
Have you ever thought about what your gold jewelry is really worth?

Are You A Victim In Life?
Don’t fall prey to victim mentality!

Psychology of Money: What Do We Want To Know?
This one should be worth following…

Is Investing in Individual Stocks Merely Gambling - Or Something More?
I’ll have to ask my daytraders anonymous group about this…

Is Generation X Responsible for the Real Estate and Mortgage Problems?
Controversial and thought-provoking!

Frugality In Practice: 75% Off Sale Doesn’t Mean Buy 3
The psychology of the sale…

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An occasional round-up of links to some of the wisdom and words of the web’s best personal finance blogs…

Confessions of a Mortgage Broker
Investment Registry lets you in on the dirty little secrets…

8 Reasons To Do All Your Shopping Online
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity makes a good argument for giving up the brick-n-mortar stores.

What Would You Do With the Proposed Tax Rebate?
See the poll results from Jeremy’s Financial Planning Blog

What Are the Root Causes of Being Poor?
AllFinancialMatters weighs in on Glen Beck’s position…

Should You Cancel Your Unused Credit Cards or Not?
The Simple Dollar lays out the facts relevant to this controversial question.

What to do When You’re Screwed by a Broker or Financial Advisor
Generation X Finance explains how it can happen and what to do about it.

How to Get Insurance for the Self-Employed
Self-employed does not have to mean uninsured. From Money Smart Life.

Ask the Readers: I’m Not Good With Money — How Should I Handle a Windfall?
Get Rich Slowly addresses a question I wish I had to wrestle with more often…

Rebate scammers already on the prowl
Don’t Mess With Taxes shows how the scumbags are out to rip off you and your loved ones. Ignore at your own peril!

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an occasional round-up of links to some of the wisdom and words of the web’s best personal finance blogs…

10 Signs It’s Time For a New Job
How would you answer these questions posed by Cash Money Life?

Book Review: The Money Diet
Get the skinny from Plonkee Money on whether this book should be included in your money diet

Do Not Wait and Start Saving Immediately
Money Ning calls you out on your saving procrastination.

Book Review: A Random Walk Down Wall Street
I just added this one to my library list thanks to Zen Personal Finance

How to Prevent Another Subprime Mortgage Debacle
Don’t understand the sub-prime mess? Read this! Great article from Dough Roller!

Smart Couples: Value Circles
Never heard of this book but I like this idea from it that 2million has been kind enough to share with us.

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Hitting the road is less expensive than flying or going by train but if you don’t plan wisely, it can quickly become more expensive than you expected it to be.

Don’t Fall For Fake Gas Coupons
About.com explains the gas coupon risks and has alternative suggestions for saving money on gas.

Hotel And Motel Discounts
Room$aver simply helps you locate room discounts and connects you directly to the hotel’s website so you can reserve your room.

GasBuddy.com
Gas Buddy lets you track down the lowest gas prices anywhere in the US or Canada. Handy year round, not just for holiday road trips!

Fast Food Coupons
Save money while eating on the road! Here are links to fast food coupons and you don’t have to become a member of a web site to get them.

Family Travel Safety Tips
Tips to avoid becoming a victim of crime while you’re on the road. Have a plan to protect your family and your valuables!

Pets Welcome?
Speaking from experience, you can waste a whole lot of time and gas driving around trying to find a hotel or motel that allows pets. Check this site out before travelling with your pet!

Thirty Gas Saving Tips
Just what it says- 30 practical tips to save money on gas including how to buy gas plus driving and maintenance tips.

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Some of these tests will force you to examine your feelings about money management and some are no more relevant than a fortune cookie fortune but still fun to take. And don’t worry, you can’t fail any of these tests!.

Money Personality Quiz
This extensive personality test from the author of Money Harmony is intended to help you identify your money personality. Make sure you answer the questions honestly!

Retirement Personality Test
As the site states, “…retirement is more a psychological
state than it is a financial or work-related condition…”. The test is to determine the hardiness of your personality in terms of how you’ll handle retirement.

MONEY’s Type Test
MONEY magazine’s test is meant to help identify your money type and then use that knowledge to avoid “…making the same old money mistakes”.

What’s Your Money Personality?
Another short quiz to help you pinpoint your money management style.

What is the Shape of Your Money Personality?
Okay, this last one is sort of a goof- it even states that it’s not scientific. Best part is it only takes a few seconds to take the test.

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Retirement is such a vague concept to me. People in my family don’t retire, they work until they die. I never even considered the possibility of retiring until a few years ago. Now I’m way behind and have a LOT of catching up to do.

Early Retirement
An examination of progress towards retirement goals from A Private Portfolio.

Money’s 13 Retirement Myths
My Retirement Blog weighs in on Money magazine’s 13 Retirement Myths and assesses their accuracy.

Retirement and HIV
You don’t have to have HIV to find this piece useful. Anyone who is trying to plan for retirement and is living with a costly condition or disease (like my mother-in-law who has MS) should read this post from Queercents.

Retirement Trivia Questions Result
Generation X Finance shares the results of asking readers to submit retirement trivia questions and how well readers did in answering the questions.

Thinking About Retirement
No Credit Needed digs through the postings on it’s blogroll and presents you with a bunch of useful retirement links.

Retirement and Passive Income
AllFinancialMatters looks at what qualifies as passive income and how it applies to your financial freedom and retirement

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