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Just as an FYI, Vilna set up her own homepage. You can find it by clicking on “ Vilna Bashi Treitler “. Bookmark It Read Full Story

Just as an FYI, Vilna set up her own homepage. You can find it by clicking on “ Vilna Bashi Treitler “. Bookmark It Read Full Story

Let’s make this a real festival and celebrate in this week’s Festival of Frugality . We’ll start off with Valentine’s Day celebrating love. Enjoy the many great posts! Valentine’s Day – February 14 misst gives us Valentine’s Day gift ideas that are good for your special someone and mother nature in How to Be Green on Valentine’s Day | Prairie EcoThrifter.com posted at Prairie Eco-Thrifter . Emily has some ideas how to make Valentine’s Day 2011 memorable without spending money in Cheap... Read Full Story

It makes us feel good when we make a difference in somebody’s life. That is why we think that the job of teachers, health workers, and such are very rewarding. They each make a profound and immediate impact on people, hopefully a good impact. You can have the same experience with money. Plenty of folks need money advice and help with money. Just look at the many successful personal finance blogs and the many personal finance books you find in bookstores. These offerings would not exist if... Read Full Story

A few days ago I attended a seminar about municipal bonds. What are municipal bonds? In short, municipal bonds are certificates issued by a municipality like a city or another local government and their agencies – you buy the certificate, and your payment is considered a loan that will be paid back, with interest, according to set terms. The basic idea of the seminar was that municipal bonds are the best investment in the long run for an investor with high income. In the US the interest... Read Full Story

A few days ago I attended a seminar about municipal bonds. What are municipal bonds? In short, municipal bonds are certificates issued by a municipality like a city or another local government and their agencies – you buy the certificate, and your payment is considered a loan that will be paid back, with interest, according to set terms. The basic idea of the seminar was that municipal bonds are the best investment in the long run for an investor with high income. In the US the interest... Read Full Story

You have seen storage units and ads for storage units, haven’t you? You might even rent one of these units. Between the foreclosure crisis in housing, and rampant unemployment, surely more and more people have to move out of their homes and need a place where they can store their furniture and other things. So, these storage units have got to be big business even though there are so many around. And until the economy is healed, they’ll likely be good business going forward. I can see that... Read Full Story

We recently wrote about the Black Friday mania and the similarity between shoppers’ herd behavior and the gold bubble. Then we commented on a blog that talked about investing bubbles, one of which was the gold bubble. We added one investing bubble that had not been listed in this blog post: emerging markets, foremost of which is China’s economy . The author of the post responded that it was just plain old silly to add China. So, I’m gonna be really silly and write an entire post about the... Read Full Story

You might want to tell us that we must be nuts to think about our vacation now, when many people are in the middle of spending money on gifts for Christmas. (Hanukkah is already behind us.) Don’t get upset too soon! We know that “this the season of giving.” But just like you want to plan for the season of giving in your family budget , you also want to plan for the season of putting your feet up and enjoying the summer. How do we plan both for the season of giving and summer vacation? In... Read Full Story

Watches are the most important type of jewelry that a man can display as a status symbol. I am sure some people disagree with me. They say that heavy gold chains or diamond studded wedding bands do a better job telling everybody how loaded you are, but once you graduate from those status symbols you are moving on to watches. Trust me! It is so. And not just because I say so. What says, “I am mega loaded” better than a Blancpain or a Piaget mechanical timepiece? These things, yes, they are... Read Full Story