Weekend Reading: June 15, 2008

Great Articles

If you haven’t seen Personal Finance Buzz, please visit, sign up, and give it a try. Some of the most popular articles of the week include:

• Alas, problogger, we hardly knew ye at Brip Blap — Steve who became pro-blogger not long ago shares his thought on pro-blogging and the reason why he went back to his consulting work. If you are interested in pro-blogging, give this reflective article a read.
• 30 Free eBooks To Learn Everything You Want to Know About Personal Finance at Mint.com — An excellent list of free eBooks that will keep you entertained for a while — at least a month for speed readers.
• Starting Your Own Business Frugally at Being Frugal — This is a guest post from Kyle of Rather-Be-Shopping.com, and it has a great list of practical advice for those who want to start a business. It’s very important for new business not to overspend.
• Mrs. Micah Gets Her First Credit Card at Mrs. Micah — Mrs. Micah shares why she doesn’t want a reward card and why having a credit card is important for her.
• Tweaking the Debt Snowball to Fit Your Life at Think Your Way To Wealth — RC gives possibly the best advice: don’t follow other people’s advice blindly. Learn from others and do what is best for you.
• Einstein’s Theory of Frugality in Shopping at Can I Get Rich On A Salary — Einstein would be proud of this analysis of relativity theory.
• 5 Reasons Why Money Is Like Sex at Broke Grad Student — No comment. I suggest you read it.
• How I Could Find $19,000 Per Year If I Had To at All Financial Matters — Do you need to cut some expenses and don’t know where to start? Check out this article for some ideas.
• 10 Reasons Not To Trade Forex at The Shark Investor — I am not a big fan of forex and Shark Investor gives us 10 good reasons why forex trading is not for everyone.
• Multiple Income Streams: 10 Ways to Earn Extra Income at The Dough Roller — DR shares his excitement about earning money online and why even small income can make a big difference. Wouldn’t it be nice to have $200-300 extra income per month to pay bills, pay down debt, or save?

For more great articles, please visit Personal Finance Buzz and sign up if you haven’t done so already. Also, I’d like to say thank you to the following bloggers who mentioned PF Buzz in on of their articles this week:

• Remodeling This Life
• Five Cent Nickel
• Money Ning
• Money and Values
• My Dollar Plan
• The Red Stapler Chronicles
• Financial Ramblings

Big Hits

Moolanomy was mentioned by two big blogs this week and I’d like to share these articles here:

• The complete guide to planning an affordable wedding at MSN Smart Spending — This is an excellent synopsis of various tips and contributions from the The Best Wedding Tips and Stories Giveaway I hosted last month. Thank you Karen and the MSN team for your support.
• Four Ways To Make The Most Of Unemployment at The Consumerist — Address the state of unemployment and how this is an opportunity to begin a new career (The Simple Dollar), take a mini retirement (Get Rich Slowly), invest in yourself (Web Worker Daily), or find other sources of income (Moolanomy).

Free Quickbooks Offer

Last week, I mentioned that I partnered with Tradepub.com to offer free magazines for my readers. I just wanted to let you know that there is a Microsoft Dynamics (a Quickbooks Replacement) offer that you may be able to qualify for the free offer.