Weekly Highlights: January 29, 2009

By Pinyo, on January 29, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote that FreeCreditReport.com is not free, and promptly got a personal finance lecture from Abigail at I Pick Up Pennies.  She said, “If you’re not clear why a site needs your credit card information is needed, don’t give it out.”   She also said that I should be reading and re-reading Terms and Conditions carefully before signing it.  Guilty and guilty.  Yes, she’s absolutely right about these points.  May be FreeCreditReport.com is more transparent NOW, but back then it wasn’t very obvious.  Anyway, thank you for the feedback Abigail.

Highlights

• Dealing With A Job Loss: What To Do When You’re Laid Off at Bible Money Matters — A great and timely resources.  I’ll be bookmarking this one because I may need it later this year…unfortunately.
• Secondary Income: The Shoebox Money Chronicles at Finance Your Life — I always make me feel good to positively affect someone.  Here’s a success story about how one of my article helped someone reached a financial goal.
• 52 Ways to Make Extra Money at Prime Time Money — I haven’t made any list for a long time, but here is a good one on making extra money.
• Should You Cash Out Your 401k? at Good Financial Cents — Here’s another take at explaining why you should not cash out your 401k.
• 5 Legendary Investors Whom You Are Sure to be Interested In at Investing School — Learn more about the 5 legendary investors: Warren Buffet, Jim Rogers, Peter Lynch, Bill Miller, and Benjamin Graham.
• 100 uses for Vinegar at Wide Open Wallet – There is nothing greater than the power of human imagination.  If you can think of 100 things to do with vinegar, imagine what else you can do with other things.
• How to Make a Price Book at Green Panda Treehouse — You won’t hear me talk much about price book here, but this is a good article to read if you’re interested in saving money.
• Avoid the Worry- Don’t Just Pay Bills on Time, Pay Them Early! at Think Your Way To Wealth — I used to pay my bill at the very last minute.  Not because I don’t have money, but I want my money to earn as much interest as it could before going somewhere else.  Now that I am older and life is a little more complicated, I pay my bills right away so I don’t forget.
• Financial Crisis at The Filipino Entrepreneur — A nice follow up to my article about the global economic crisis.
• Job Loss, Pay Freezes, and 401k cuts at Passive Family Income — Another perspective on the economic crisis, career, and passive income.  This article could have been written by me.  That’s how similar our situations are right now.

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