The Writer’s Coin

A recent post of mine of how scuba diving can teach us how to handle our finances has been included in the latest Money Hacks Carnival over at Mommy Gets Paid. Check out all the other great posts from the carnival here.
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Last year my future in-laws decided to take M and I on a trip to Aruba and I was thrilled. But my father-in-law really wanted to do some scuba diving and M was already certified, so they asked me if I was interested. I had never done anything like it but decided it would be [...]

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If you’ve read anything about finances on this blog, you know I am a huge fan of ING—I use their high-yield savings account to put any and all extra money I have. But with the Fed cutting the rates over and over, the interest we get in accounts like this one has fallen. From a [...]

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I’ve talked and thought about alternative income and diversifying my income for a long time but I’ve never really counted up all the pennies to see how much I’ve been making. It was just such an “insignificant” amount that I never gave it much thought.
Then last month I saw some actual amounts of money in [...]

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We’ve all heard the stories out there of companies profiting even when they haven’t done their job well, especially CEOs. Well, I thought I had heard it all until I read this article. It talks about Washington Mutual and how the board has approved a new way of measuring the performance of the CEO to [...]

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Slate makes a good point in this article about what people are going to do with their rebate checks. I guess people are saying that they will be saving that money or using it on essential items. The experts (and history) beg to differ with that one—most Americans will treat like free money and blow [...]

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Sun has a nice post discussing the importance of direct deposit. Direct deposit isn’t a must when it comes to keeping a budget and saving money, but it sure makes it a lot easier.
One of the first tenets you’ll hear repeated over and over in personal finance is “make it automatic.” That means setting up [...]

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I ran across this article on Yahoo! Finance the other day and it got me thinking about how I “grade” on each of these qualities. So lets run down the ten of them and see how well (or badly) I fare:

Patience: I love reading articles about retirement, so this is a good indicator that I’m [...]

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Last week M’s car had a pretty bad flat tire so she took it in to see if it was patchable or if she needed a new one. The guy at the shop told her that her tire was completely punctured and she would need to buy a new one. That sucks, but not such [...]

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As I mentioned earlier this week, reading is one way that helps me brainstorm new ideas. It doesn’t have to be something new, it just has to be something interesting. So yesterday I was going through Ramit’s blog, Iwillteachyoutoberich, poking around some of his old posts looking for something interesting. For those that have never [...]

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