Archive for June, 2008

You may have noticed the Free Magazines link on my navigation bar…may be you haven’t. I want to tell you a little bit about this special offer. Basically, I have partnered up with TradePub.com to offer you the opportunity to get some free magazines.
How can these magazines be free?
In order to get these [...]

Recently, I have been dealing with insurance a lot — i.e., stopping my parents’ premium payments, evaluating long-term care insurance, doing quite a bit of analysis and shopping for better life insurance policies for my wife and I, etc. As expected, one of the insurance sales agents pitched a whole life insurance for my [...]

Net Worth Review
I have been so busy in May working on the launch of PF Buzz that I didn’t keep up with the market news at all. In the end, the S&P 500 index went up +1.07% from 1385.59 to 1400.38, and according to NetworthIQ, my net worth went up +0.97%. The really [...]

Wedding Giveaway Winner
At the end of April, I announced The Best Wedding Tips and Stories Giveaway. There were a total of 33 entries that are eligible for the $50 Amazon gift card (or cash transfer via Revolution Money Exchange).
The winner was contacted and sent $50…congratulation to Be This Way.
125 Banner Winners
Each month, I randomly select [...]

Today, members of the M-Network are doing a series on vacationing. Frugal tips, ideas, experiences, personal accounts…everything. Check out the other M-Network blogs for more vacationing articles.
My contribution to the project is a hodgepodge of vacation planning, ideas, and tips — hopefully with a few creative ideas that you could use for your own vacation.
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Hello everyone and welcome to 155th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. Initially, I had a plan to make this a more unique and interesting carnival, but my sister and her family came up from Virginia for a surprised visit. As a result, I opted to spend more time with my family [...]

Around the Personal Finance Blogosphere
Personal Finance Buzz
First in the news is Personal Finance Buzz — a personal finance social network by a personal finance blogger for personal finance bloggers. I started PF Buzz alpha/beta on May 17th and launched it on May 27th.
First, I’d like to say thank you to all the bloggers who [...]