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Do your commitments match your convictions?

This will be my last article for the year. I am writing this while relaxing with family and I hope you are too. During these last few days, all of us are looking back at 2011 and planning/scheming for 2012. We plan most parts of our life, our career, finances, retirement, kid’s education, etc. We [...]

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Here’s Hoping Property Prices Go To Zero!

This is a guest post from Sam at Financial Samurai, where he helps readers slice through money’s mysteries. He is also the founder of the Yakezie Network, a group of the best personal finance blogs on the web. I got a postcard from a realtor the other day stating “JUST SOLD” at one of the resorts I own [...]

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Should you Buy or Rent? Calculator + Inforgraphics

I am an immigrant to this country and let me tell you, the American Dream resonates with me.  For someone who came to this country with next to nothing, the possibility that I can, through just hard work, be able to own my own white picket fence house with the 2 cars, is mind blowing. [...]

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In pursuit of (paperless) happiness

I used to be a pack rat. I saved every single piece of mail, cancelled check, receipt, bill and policy. I was drowning in a paper avalanche.  Finally, it was time for me to move cross country and I spent 50% of my moving expenses on moving junk!!! I had been keeping so much stuff [...]

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First time home Buyer – Saving for a down payment

“Where the hell did you get the money?”, I wanted to ask this question 3 times in the last 2 months. For social reasons, the words never came out of my mouth, I just kept asking myself and my husband the question.  What is it that we are doing wrong? Every time I heard one [...]

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Expiry dates for financial records – How long should I keep my financial records?

Tax season has just ended, you have a pile of tax records. How long to keep tax records? We have so many types of financial accounts and the statements that go with it too. We can’t keep everything forever, but if we ever get into an unfortunate situation with Uncle Sam, we need every possible [...]

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Stay warm and cut your gas bills this winter

Kris @ Everyday tips asked on Monday – whether everyone has turned their furnace on to stay warm. This made me think about all the winters I enjoyed in the North East. Snow, lovely snow, I love snow! Waking up to a beautiful sun shining through the blanket of white crystals covering every inch of [...]

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Take this house and shove it

As the housing market continues to flounder in many parts of the country, more than one-in-five homeowners (21%) say they owe more on their mortgages than their home is worth according to a recent Pew Research Survey. But the more interesting part of the survey is – more than a third (36%) say the practice [...]

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Go Green Using Government Funding : Energy rebates & tax credits, Federal, State and more

With the Government bailing out all the big banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies and auto industry, don’t you feel like asking, as the little guy, where is my bail out? At least I have. I should be getting some kind of bail out to cover my expenses… because you know… I have spent it all. [...]

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