May 2010

Eat Better America & J$ Wants to Give You $25.00

May 31, 2010

Hey Guys! I hope everyone’s enjoying Memorial weekend :) General Mills is having a $1,500 grocery giveaway sweepstakes for one lucky winner, and they’ve also given us a $25 Grocery gift card to give away here too! If you’re around the interwebs today here’s your chance to win… The main goal of Eat Better America [...]

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2010 College Grad Financial Survival Guide

May 28, 2010

Guest post by LearnVest With high school and college graduations going on around us, recent college grad are finally about to enter the “real world” and start earning a REAL salary and an apartment to call their own. Sounds nice right? But we need to ask them if they’ve thought about what they’re going to [...]

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Top 10 Credit Score Misconceptions

May 27, 2010

*Guest Post by Credit Karma When I get married, do we get a joint credit score? If I get a raise at work, will my credit score go up? These are common questions asked everyday by many Americans because credit scores are seemingly arbitrary numbers and credit reports are lengthy and unintelligible. It’s often difficult [...]

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Why Tracking Your Net Worth is Important

May 26, 2010

Guest post by Alban As you look around to determine how successful and fulfilled your life really is, you may become distracted in adding up all of the things you have – a new car in the driveway, a big TV in the home theater and a modern house on a beautiful street. However simply [...]

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Don’t Devalue Yourself

May 25, 2010

Guest post by Jesse Michelsen In light of J. Money’s recent job scare and his resolve to creating his online empire as he put it, I thought I would discuss creating value in yourself. I work in the computer industry and used to run my own computer repair shop. One thing I have found over [...]

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Getting Your Finances in Shape on the Jersey Shore

May 24, 2010

Guest post by Paula Drum In 2009, many life lessons were learned thanks to MTV’s Jersey Shore. For example, we were schooled in beating up the beat, warned about falling in love, discovered that life is better with a quacking duck phone and received the following gem courtesy of Mike the Situation: “Gym, Tan, Laundry [...]

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iPhone = Garage Sale?

May 22, 2010

Guest post by Rich So, what does an iphone have to do with saving money? A lot if you are nifty with finding great applications. There is a new iPhone application from Garage Sale Tracker that allows users to find all the local flea markets, consignment stores, and yard sales that will even populate a [...]

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You Can Buy A Lot of Fun, but Happiness is Not For Sale

May 21, 2010

Guest post by Brad Chaffee Have you ever heard someone say, “If I only had _____ I would be happy?“ Have you ever said it yourself? I know I sure have, but it wasn’t until I started learning about becoming debt free that I realized why that was a huge misjudgment. Like me, many people [...]

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Weekly Roundup: PF’ers, Debtors & Corporate Ladders

May 21, 2010

Happy Friday!!! Here are some great posts to chew on over the weekend… We got an awesome lineup coming up next week too, so stay tuned! Perhaps we’ll be drinking a beer at the same time across the world? The Annual 50% @ Free Money Finance AllYou.com Grocery Giveaway @ AllYou.com Consumer Debt is Not [...]

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Off We Go to Europe!

May 20, 2010

Good morning everyone! It’s a beautiful day here in J. Money-land as we embark into the wide world of Europa :) 10 Days of relaxing, beer-festing, hanging out with friends, and just being good ol’ American tourists. I haven’t packed a thing yet, but who cares – we’re on vacation! And it’s damn good timing [...]

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