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August 2010

Should You Invest or Pay Down Debt?

August 9, 2010
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(Guest post by Laura Adams) People often ask me about whether they should focus on investing money for the future or on paying down their debt. If you’re fortunate enough to have some excess cash at the end of the month, maybe you’ve also wondered about the best way to use it. Just about everyone [...]

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The Elephant on The Red Carpet

August 6, 2010

(Guest post by Debt Goal) Celebrities are willing to dish on their diets, workout regimes, health issues, partying lifestyles, relationship woes and child-rearing preferences. But the one thing celebrities don’t seem too willing to talk about is their money … or lack thereof. Behind the glitz and glamour, some celebs are racking up enormous debt [...]

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Net Worth – July: $164,387.81 (Woo Woo!)

August 5, 2010

Up 13 Gs this month! Not too shabby… Not much done on my half to get there this month, but the years leading up to it sure did help :) That’s what I like about viewing our net worths like this – it shows allll of our past financial doings nicely mixed in with our [...]

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Stuck at the airport

August 4, 2010

You know how they say to get to the airport 2 hours early? Well, I didn’t do that and the plane left without me. So for the past 3 hours I’ve been keeping myself entertained while I await the 5 hour penalty until the next flight out ;) But I write this not to gain [...]

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Why You Should Ignore 99% of Worthless Advice about “Starting a Business”

August 4, 2010

This is a guest post by Ramit Sethi, founder of I Will Teach You To Be Rich and a new course on earning more money. Ever since I started writing about how to earn more money, I’ve been getting questions like this over and over: “What service should I offer? How much should I charge? [...]

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J. Money Causes Ruckus on USAA’s Facebook Page

August 3, 2010

I thought this was too funny to let it slip by :) It seems my post the other day on USAA’s new products hit the front page of USAA’s Facebook Page and some parents weren’t too keen about it!  Something about my use of foul language around kids and dirtying USAA’s image. (It’s well worth [...]

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Best of Money Carnival, # Sexty-two

August 2, 2010

Hey guys!  Welcome to this week’s Best of Money Carnival #62 hosted by yours truly, J to the $. It’s been a while since I hosted one of these guys (and the first “Best of” one actually), but I love doing ‘em because you really get a feel for what’s being talked about out there. [...]

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