Category: Miscellaneous

On August 18, 2007, I started the MOMA Meme and asked my fellow bloggers to give their one money advice, tip, or story. My goal was to help promote financial responsibility and awareness in our hyper consumption society. Since that time, 38 bloggers have responded with their one advice…very good ones I might [...]

I believe most of you know Trent Hamm and The Simple Dollar so I will not bore you with the usual questions. You can read more about Trent on his About The Simple Dollar page and Getting Started With The Simple Dollar. Without further ado, I will launch into my interview.

Pinyo: Trent, first thank you [...]

I am very excited that my post, Powerful life experiences about money, was one of the 12 selected among the 38 submissions to the Carnival of Money Stories #22. Here are the other 11 articles for my readers’ convenience:

Money Dummy: “Garage Sale Karma“
Fit Buff: “Free Water, What a Novel Idea“
Mortgage Blog: “Getting my First Mortgage“
Money [...]

I am breaking my usual one post a day routine here, but it cannot wait…
Carnivals
Thanks to both The Simple Dollar and I’ve Paid For This Twice Already… for hosting the carnivals and for including my posts. I also want to:

Welcome readers from The Simple Dollar who are following the Carnival of Personal Finance #114 to [...]

This week roundup will focus on the subject of retirement. Something I look forward to hopefully sooner rather than later. The way I see it is that you can truly retire until you achieve financial independence; and that is what I want.
Financial Dominance wrote What Do I Need to Retire? and share with [...]

Readers
It has been exactly 1 month since I started this blog on July 15th with my first post: Wealth building made REAL simple. Since then, I have been blessed with daily visits from readers like you — 60 of whom are subscribed to my feed. If you are not one of the 60, [...]

Hin asked me if I was given $1,000,000, what I would do with it? Gee…I would be excited and scared, but here goes…
First, I would hire the best financial advisor I can find. So far, I have been doing well on my own — learning from the Web and books. But if a $1 million [...]

I was going to do a saving money for college roundup this week in preparation for my first baby. But, with so many cool credit related posts around, the saving money for college will have to wait another week. This should not be a problem since my baby is not due until mid-December (I still [...]

Trying to build wealth while you are in debt is like running on a treadmill. At best, you will get a good exercise running to nowhere. At worst, you might fall off and hurt yourself. In this round up, I search through the personal finance Blogosphere and found some great posts about dealing with debt.

Zen [...]

Recently, Jason of The Amatureist Financial Journey referred me to a site called NetworthIQ. On his recommendation, I gave it a try and I must say that I am impressed. To keep it short, here are the things I liked about NetworthIQ:

Easy to track my net worth from month to month
I can compare [...]