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My Dumbest Purchase Ever And Lessons Learned

Last week DebtKid, shared his dumbest purchase and offered his Nintendo DS Lite as a contest prize to one lucky winner. Everyone who shares their story has a chance to win the Nintendo DS Lite. Well, I am going to join in for the opportunity to win this little gadget. But more importantly, it’s a [...]

The Big Rocks of Life

Sometimes, it’s easy to focus too much on money and forget why money is important. To me, the most important reason to have money is so that my family and I can survive — e.g., to pay for food, shelter, clothes, medicine, health care, etc. — the basic living needs. Once these basic needs [...]

Winners of Wise Investing Made Simple Giveaway

On November 15th, I announced that I was holding a contest to give away Wise Investing Made Simple to 5 lucky winners. There were 20 submissions in total, so the odd of winning was really good at 1:4. To pick the winners, I used the random number generator found at Psychic Science. Don’t [...]

Giveaway: Share Your Investing Story for a Chance to Win a Book

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 [...]

A Boy and the Ice Cream Sundae

I am ticked off. I cannot believe how uncivilized people are these days. It became increasingly harder for my 7-month pregnant wife to commute using the busy NYC subway system. Worse yet, my wife often complain about people who completely ignore her, or even shove her aside to get a seat (there [...]

Moolanomy weekly roundup #5: “My One Money Advice” edition

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 [...]

Moolanomy weekly roundup #2: “Dealing With Debt” edition

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.

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