Archive for November, 2007

Today, Moolanomy turns exactly 4 months old. To celebrate this occasion, I am holding a contest to give away Wise Investing Made Simple to 5 lucky winners. In case you don’t know, Larry Swedroe, an investing expert who offered to write a monthly Q&A “Ask The Expert” column for Moolanomy wrote this fine [...]

I know this is going to be a good day when I woke up to see a glowing review of Moolanomy at Chance Favors by Ciaran McKeever; especially, when the other two blogs he previously reviewed were Get Rich Slowly and The Simple Dollar.

Ciaran McKeever is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER professional and President of McKeever [...]

Recently I spoke to a friend about his retirement savings, and we ended up looking at his 401k portfolio. Although he isn’t able to contribute the maximum amount each year, he contributes enough to take full advantage of the company match. However, when I looked at his investment asset allocation, I was horrified. [...]

“I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to GEICO.” I am sure you heard that famous line before. In this post, I will share my story about how I saved $1,145 per year, or 30% off my original insurance bills — and it wasn’t with GEICO.
It all started [...]

This article is part of the M-Network group writing project about cars and what they meant to us. This series will run from November 12th through the 16th, and we welcome you to share your stories with us.

At first, I was going to launch into this long history about how I loved the Transformers cartoon, [...]

This is a great week for money saving ideas. On Friday, I wrote about how I saved $50 a month by switching from Time Warner to Verizon Triple Play, and then there’s a whole slew of posts about money saving ideas from the M-Network. Before I go to these posts, I just want [...]

Did you know that you can get things for cheaper and better by making a couple of phone calls and ask? That’s right. You could be paying premium for antiquated and inferior services right now. As part of the Reduce a Bill Challenge at Working For Financial Freedom, I’d like to share this story with [...]

Larry Swedroe has graciously offered opportunity for Moolanomy’s readers to ask for his second opinion. If you are interested in hearing his insight, please use the contact form below to send in your question.
If your question is selected, your question along with Mr. Swedroe’s answer will be posted here (schedule to be determined). Please indicate [...]

In “Getting A Good Job Is A Matter Of Luck?“, Minimum Wage asked, “How do you keep your skills current if you have a menial dead-end job?” I believe that despite your situation, where there’s a will, there’s a way. Since I don’t know where Minimum Wage lives and the kind of [...]

Welcome to the 33rd Edition of the Carnival of Money Stories; a carnival that shares stories about personal experiences or the experiences of others on saving, investing, finance, money management, money generating, business ventures, success and tales of struggle. There were many great submissions from PF Bloggers around the world, so let’s begin

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