Happy Fathers Day and Carnivals
June 15th, 2008
Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers out there. They might not have given birth but they’re the ones that we most often turn to when something goes wrong. They our the stones of reliance that we always turn to. I have had my disagreements with my dad but I love him none the less (more so if anything). I hope that when its my turn I’m just as good a father as he is.
Carnivals this past week – I was included in the carnival of personal finance hosted by Prime Time Money. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to read through a lot of the posts so I don’t have any picks myself. Definitely check out the carnival.
Contest Note – As you can see by the updated chart in the side nav I missed this weeks’ budget, just barely. If you haven’t left your comment for an additional entry now’s the time to do it. I’ll be drawing the winner tomorrow evening.
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Carnival of Personal Finance This Week
June 8th, 2008
The Carnival of Personal finance this week is being hosted by Moolanomy and my post about Cash and Debit was included. I wanted to post about this earlier in the week but I also wanted to read through the posts and select a few that caught my attention.
Posts of interest to me:
26 Ways to Make Extra Money While Keeping your Day Job
Stop Complaining about Gas Prices
Increase your Salary Without Increasing your Work
Debunking the “Latte Factor”
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Hacked!
May 21st, 2008
I discovered today by coincidence that my site had been hacked. Someone put in code to place a bunch of invisible links in my footer file. I have fixed the problem but its very frustrating to see something like that on one of my sites. It also explains the fact that this site has been penalized by Google and given a PR of 0 (which I noticed on Friday).
I wanted to apologize to my readers, especially if any of you have noticed this. This type of malicious behavior is very frustrating and so pointless since it probably didn’t drive any traffic to whoever was doing this.
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Site Review – creditcardflyers.com
May 12th, 2008
You’ve been hearing stories about people taking advantage of credit card rewards and getting cash back or flying around the world for free and you want to join them. Chances are the moment you start looking around you’ll do exactly what I did: give up! There are so many different cards out there that trying to find one to fit your needs can be a challenge. An easy way to sift through all of this information is just what creditcardflyers.com helps you with.
I was approached to review this site and since I’m naturally hesitant to put my name behind a review unless I agree with it, I took a look at the site and I was impressed. This site is massive wealth of information about many of the rewards credit cards out there. Unfortunately to my chagrin they only seem to cover American based cards (too bad for the rest of us). The site broke down cards by reward types from Travel miles all the way to the World Series of Poker card. The best part is that every card has a review and detailed information about the offerings and an easy way to compare cards (not just one bank’s cards).
As I was browsing around the site not only did I find details about the credit cards and their rewards programs I also found a multitude of additional information. The credit card industry is littered with acronyms and terms that don’t make sense to a lot of people, creditcardflyers.com helps the consumer out by explaining some of these terms and really helps make sense of the jungle of cards out there. I was relieved to see this information because too often it’s put into the background and only available if you really search for it.
In conclusion I’m very glad I didn’t dismiss this request for a review, creditcardflyers.com has a lot of interesting and useful information on it. For me the only drawback is that I can’t use it to help me pick a rewards card because I’m a Canadian. If you are considering changing credit cards to take advantage of rewards this site might be a good starting point for your investigation.
Please note: this is a paid review but I was genuinely impressed with what was being offered.
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Online Financial Tools
May 7th, 2008
The thought of calculating the amortization on a mortgage is enough to give me a headache and prevent me from even attempting it. I know that there are sites and tools out there that can help by doing a lot of these financial calculations and I have used them in the past. Yesterday I ran across a post over at Money Ning about a great online Mortgage and Loan Calculator; the online calculator itself is very well thought out and is a handy visually appealing tool.
When I first looked online for financial tools many years ago they were hard to use and clunky but things have come a long way since then. The tools still come in complex and difficult to use versions but there are more and more well built easy to use tools. The best part is that most of the tools are free (like Mint.com). We no longer have the excuse that we don’t know what our financial situation is or whether we can afford a loan or a mortgage
Have any of you had success with any online tools? Definitely pass them along; I’m thinking of creating a section of this site to list all of these types of tools.
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Carnival of Personal Finance #150 is up
April 29th, 2008
This week’s Carnival of Personal Finance (#150) is up over at Lazy Man and Money. He was kind enough to include my post about House Hunting in an Uncertain Market. This Carnival is definitely worth checking out since there are 115 posts included in it (it took Lazy Man 16 hours to put it together!!).
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Festivals and Carnivals this Week
April 3rd, 2008
This week I participated in a couple carnivals and they’re both up and in place. They’ve got a lot of great articles in them. Here they are:
Carnival of Personal Finance #146 – Hosted by Stocktradingtogo
Festival of Frugality #119 – hosted by Consumerism Commentary
Check them out they’ll keep you reading for a while!
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The Carnival of Personal Finance is Up!
March 10th, 2008
This weeks Carnival of Personal Finance #143 is up over at The Four Pillars. This week’s theme is near and dear to my heart since it has a Canadian theme and is being hosted by a fellow Canadian Blogger. Definitely check it out!
In other news, a new design is in the works for this site. I’m very happy with the results so far and hopefully everything will be in place before the end of the week. In the meantime check out all the articles in the Carnival.
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Carnivals this Week
February 21st, 2008
One of the coolest things in the blogging community and specifically the PF blogging community are Carnivals. If you’ve never seen a carnival before it’s a collection of articles that are submitted to a presenter or host. This person collects and organizes all of the posts that are submitted into what’s typically a very long post. These are great because in one post you get what are probably the best articles on the topic from the past week.
I’ve been participating in a couple carnivals over the past couple weeks and this week is no different. I participated in the Carnival of Personal Finance (#140) and the Festival of Frugality (#113). The Festival of Frugality was hosted by the Mighty Bargain Hunter and was based on the theme of Presidents Day. Here are a few articles that caught my attention from the festival:
Outwardly Simple and Inwardly Rich
Ten Lessons from a One-Income Family
Celebrities and Money: Sarah Michelle Gellar
The Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted by The Financial Blogger and followed a Prison Break theme. Here are some of the articles that caught my attention from it:
You Are Not Your Stuff, Your Stuff Is Not You.
Lessons I Wish I Learned Earlier
The Car I didn’t Buy
Save Time and Money with These Tips for Organizing Your Personal and Financial Records
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Festivals and Carnivals this Week
February 9th, 2008
I’ve been a bit remiss this week in letting everyone know about the Carnival of Personal Finance and the Festival of Frugality that I participated in. I’m still settling into my new schedule which is a lot less structured. I had one of my posts in each of them this week.
The Carnival of Personal Finance was hosted by I’ve Paid for this Twice and the Festival of Frugality was hosted by Being Frugal. Not surprisingly both of them had a football theme courtesy of the Superbowl. Check them both out, there are some great articles in both.
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