Open Enrollment Time: A Guide to Your Benefits Package
It’s Open Enrollment time at most employers, the time when you get to choose your benefits coverage for next year. You will review your chosen options, and make changes to them as needed. It’s important to be familiar with last year’s benefits. You may get a summary, but can use your paystub to see what [...]
How To Vacation Without Disappointment
Most people go on vacation with expectations of a non-stop extravaganza or with the hopes of an interruption-free solitude. That’s what I call setting yourself up for failure. Neither of those two is going to happen. We both know it. Whether you are envisioning a week of beach lounging and Pina Coladas or a week [...]
4 Estate Planning Documents You Need Today
It’s not a very happy thought, but have you ever considered what you want to happen to your assets after death? What about the guardianship of your children in case both parents die together? If something happens to you but doctors could keep you alive through life support or other measures would you want that? [...]
How To Sell Your House Fast – 9 Tips To Get The Most From Your Home Sale
Due to the credit crisis and recession, there are a lot of houses for sale. Homeowners who are trying to avoid foreclosure are selling many of these homes. Needless to say, it’s a buyer’s market and homeowners need to know all the tricks to help them sell their homes quickly. Fortunately, there are proven techniques [...]
Evolution Of Personal Finance Blogs
I have been blogging about personal finance for just over two years now (our 2nd anniversary was July 15th). I have seen many bloggers come and go, but those that stick around continues to improve and add useful content to the Internet daily. In support of my argument, Fiscal Fizzle recently offered his thought on [...]
Getting Ready To Hit The Road Weekly Highlights
This is an early edition of my weekly highlights, as I am getting ready to head out for a road trip vacation. Next week, I’ll be featuring a few guest articles from various personal finance bloggers.
Highlights
This week Moolanomy was mentioned in the Examiner.com in P2P Followup: Growing up is hard to do by Barbara Bryn [...]
Weekly Highlights: May 10, 2009
Happy Mother’s Day everyone! I just want to wish everyone, especially all the moms out there a happy day. This week, Moolanomy was featured on The Kirk Report, Mainstreet.com, and WSJ The Wallet — please be sure to give these sites a visit.
Also, if you have been reading Moolanomy through feed reader or email, please [...]
Office Etiquette: Making the Right Steps to Fit In
When you got your job offer, you probably thought to yourself: “Phew, I aced the interviews, got my job offer… I’m done! FINALLY!” Well, sorry to break it to you but the interview does NOT stop once you have been hired. That was just the preliminary interview, now it’s on to the real interview! The [...]
Are Green And Socially Responsible Mutual Funds Worth It?
In celebration of Earth Day, I want to share my perspective on green and socially responsible investing. The idea of socially conscious investing has been around for a long time, but its popularity soared over the last few years. According to Social Investment Forums: “Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) is a broad-based approach to investing that [...]
Weekly Highlights: April 19, 2009
Last week Moolanomy was featured on the Kirk Report and Mainstreet — thank you guys. Aside from that, this has been a busy week at work for me — which is a good thing given the economy — but it means that I come home too tired to do too much with the blog. So [...]
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