The Carnival of Personal Finance #228: Halloween 2009 Edition
October 26, 2009 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Welcome to the 228th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance! This week’s theme is Halloween, even though I think Halloween is a big waste of time and money! I’ll try not to be the Scrooge of Halloween, because I know it’s fun for kids, it gives us something to do before Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there have been some great scary movies spawn from the Halloween “holiday”. I have included a couple of scary images, so if you don’t like those, then I apologize in advance! So, does your bank account scare you? Does budgeting give you the creeps? Is your credit report haunted with collection ghosts? If so, use this collection of spook-tacular articles to help you improve your financial situation.
Best Of Personal Finance Bloggers for Week of August 24th
August 29, 2009 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Here are some of the best personal finance and career articles from some of the best bloggers in the PF community:
- Free Money Finance analyzes six questions to ask in an interview to sell yourself.
- My Two Dollars explains how to have a no-spending weekend. I find that we spend the most money on the weekends, so I really liked this article.
- Consumerism Commentary asks what’s most important to you for health care reform. Health care reform is a hot debate in the country, and it’s important for you to understand what you want from health care reform.
Best of Money Crashers Articles in December
December 15, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Here are a few articles from the archives to check out from last December:
- Your Guide to Holiday Tipping
- What I Would Do With $1,000 on the Holidays
- Seven Gift Cards to Buy for College Students and Teenagers
- Should You Refinance Your ARM to a fixed rate mortgage?
- Wall Watchers. As a Money Crasher, giving is very important to me. I love to give gifts, money, and time to others. This is a nice website that keeps track of how companies are donating their money.
- Kingdom Advisors. It’s tough to trust a financial advisor. Kingdom Advisors is a network of Christian advisors who are dedicated to helping you with your finances from a Christian perspective.
- Free Money Finance
- Lazy Man And Money
- Fire Finance
- Mighty Bargain Hunter
- Broke Grad Student
- Money Smart Life
- Cash Money Life
- Free Money Finance gives you ways tosave on cooling costs
- Consumerism Commentary tells me why I should wait to buy a G3 iPhone
- Wisebread explains the benefits of a walkable neighborhood.
- Lazy Man and Money gives us another reason to hate credit card companies
- .The Digerati Life has simple ways to improve the value of your home.
Have a Happy Monday!
The Top Referring Blogs and Websites To This Site
October 28, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Thanks to all of the blogs and websites that link to this site on a weekly basis. You bring targeted traffic to this site and allow readers to find this blog as just another resource for their financial needs. It’s awesome to know that the personal finance blogging community works as a team, rather than group of competitors. I have not found a personal finance blogger that doesn’t have a heart to help people win with money and make better financial decisions in their personal lives. Here are the top ten referrers to this site this past month.
Financial Worksheet Downloads
August 14, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
I found some good, free worksheets online the other day, and I thought that I would share them with you.
Here is a comprehensive budgeting worksheet in Excel format: Budget Worksheet
Here is a great debt elimination plan worksheet in Excel format: Debt Elimination Plan
Here is a nice comparison worksheet for the various different college savings funds out on the market: College Fund Comparison
Check them out and see what you think.
Christian Money Websites Of Interest
August 4, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Here are some great websites for those of you looking for some financial direction from a Christian perspective.
Top Referring Blogs For The Month of July
August 4, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Thank you to these personal finance bloggers who send traffic my way. We have the best network of bloggers out of any genre in the blogging community. Please get to know these sites well. I read these blogs frequently, and I learn something new from them every day.
Again, thanks to everyone for your links this month!
Great Site For Finding High Yield Checking Accounts
July 16, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Consumer News, Financial Links
My mom found a cool website that she shared with me, and I want to pass it along to you. It’s called CheckingFinder.Com. You type in your zip code, and it searches for banks that offer high-yielding, interest bearing checking accounts.
I typed in my zip code and the closest bank that it came up with was about 250 miles away, but you might have better luck than I did. All of the banks it listed were showing 5% to 5.5% interest rates for balances up to $25,000. That really caught my eye. I’ve never come across a checking account that offers 5% interest on your money! It’s worth checking out. We need to respond to the large banks like Bank of America and Wachovia by taking our money to smaller, local banks that offer great checking account products.
Money Crashers Articles of the Week
June 15, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Here is a short list of some great articles to read from this past week. Hope you enjoy it.
Money Crashers Articles Of the Week
May 11, 2008 by Erik Folgate
Filed under Financial Links
Here are this week’s articles that I enjoyed the most. It always amazes me that the amount of great contents on personal finance blogs out there hasn’t been discovered by the masses yet. I know that it will. The amount of quality, free contents out there gives no excuse to those that continue to make poor financial decisions.
