Credit Score – The Good, the Bad, and the Sucky

By Pinyo, on August 22, 2009

Like it or not, your credit score matters whether or not you plan to borrow money. As such it’s a good idea to learn as much as you can about credit score, how it works, and how it impact your finances. Below are some great articles about credit score I found around the web this week. These articles cover a wide variety of aspects and I recommend that you read them all.

• 15 Reasons Why You Should Ignore Your FICO Score at Money Ning
• Five Things That Don’t Affect Your Credit Score at Bible Money Matters
• 11 steps to improve your credit score at MSN Smart Spending
• Credit score changes at Gather Little By Little
• What’s a “Hard Pull” on a Credit Check? at Green Panda Treehouse
• Freecreditreport.com vesus myFICO.com: Do you know the difference? at The Dough Roller
• FreeScore.com: More Credit Score Confusion at WSJ The Wallet
• Your Credit Sucks – A simple, five step plan to improve your credit score in 30 days at Rate Nerd

Additionally, I put together a list of Free Credit Report and Credit Score Online Sites that you can use to get your credit score and report for free.

Weekly Highlights

Here are a few highlights I’d like to share this week.

• Moolanomy was featured on the Buck List with some high praises — i.e., the golden standard of personal finance blogs — thank you Buck!
• A guest article 9 Really Weird Ways to Make Money by Linda McCormick was featured on The Daily Crux — awesome work Linda!
• Suze Orman Reveals Her Top Six Money Tips at Restoring Your Finances and Your Faith
• 4 Reasons Why Student College Loans Are Dangerous at The Debt Hawk
• 6 Innovative Banks That Change Online Banking at Mint Life
• Discovering (and Challenging) Your Financial Values at Get Rich Slowly

Giveaways

• Bob Lotich is giving away $100 Amazon Gift Card to celebrate 1,000,000 visitors milestone on Christian Personal Finance — congratulation Bob…great job.
• Green Panda Treehouse and a bunch of other blogs are giving away some HP computers to celebrate back to school season.
• Spend On Life is hosting a Bad Poetry Contest for a chance to win $1,000.

Carnival

Lastly, I participated in a few carnivals this week:

• Carnival of Twenty Something Finances
• Best of Money Carnival
• Carnival of Money Stories
• Carnival of Road to Financial Independence

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