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    Friday, November 13, 2009

    Best of Credit, Home & Money – Week of Nov. 8

    Happy Friday! Your Weekly Quizzler is here, chock-full of the week’s best stories about your credit, home and money links straight from the Quizzle Twitter feed:

    Home & Money Saving Tips

    Digitize Your Coupon Clipping (Suburban Dollar)

    With the influx of coupon websites, you can now enjoy the savings of coupons without getting newspaper ink on your hand. Kathryn shares some tips on how to take advantage of coupons online.

    Perfect Weddings Can Be Frugal Weddings (Quizzle Blog)

    The best advice comes from personal experience. Learn some tricks about planning your wedding on the cheap from Quizzle’s own Angela Burkhart, who is currently planning her own October, 2010 wedding.

    Practical Tips for Gift Card Givers and Getters (USA Today)

    Gift cards can make fantastic gifts, but not all gift cards are created equally. Before you buy, make sure you check out these pointers to make sure you – and the giftee – are getting what you paid for.

    72 Ways to Save Money on Electricity without Spending a Cent (My Next Buck)

    Unless you plan making the switch to candlelight, your electric bill isn’t going away. Learn how to save money on that monthly bill and do some good for the Earth while you’re at it.

    Start Making Year-End Tax Moves Now and Save Big Money (Generation X Finance)

    April may be five months away, but you can make smart money moves now that will save you big time when tax day rolls around.

    10 Things Your Baby Doesn’t Need that Can Fund their College Education (Fiscal Geek)

    When it comes to your baby, there’s a product for everything. But by forgoing a few luxuries, you could actually stash away enough money to make a dent in the kid’s college fund.

    Investing Money & The Stock Market

    How to Make Money in 2010: Your Investments (CNN Money, Money Magazine)

    Small gains are the name of the game next year. Find out more about investing in 2010, including what to watch, the wild cards and smart plans of action.

    Personal Finance & Budgeting

    5 Warning Signs You Have Way Too Much Debt (Financial Methods)

    If any of these five scenarios sound familiar, you may want to rethink your debt management strategy.

    Procrastination: A Money Management Killer (Quizzle Blog)

    Mark Twain once said, “Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.” …Except when it comes to smart money management. Don’t let your bad habits of procrastination drain your wallet.

    10 Steps to Planning Holiday Spending (Moolanomy)

    There are only 48 days left in 2009, which means the end-of-the-year holidays are fast approaching. Learn how to make your holidays – and the inevitable spending – less stressful.

    Friday, November 6, 2009

    Best of Credit, Home & Money – Week of Nov. 1

    This week’s most interesting articles and blog posts about your home, money and credit – straight from the Quizzle Twitter page:

    Home & Money Saving Tips

    10 Non-Secrets about Grocery Shopping that Anyone Can Do (Frugal for Life)

    Classic money saving tips for grocery shopping.

    Personal Finance & Budgeting

    How Much to Budget for Car Maintenance? (Five Cent Nickel)

    The costs of car maintenance can easily throw off your personal budget if you’re not careful. Matt at FiveCentNickel gives some advice on how to make sure that car repair bill doesn’t sneak up on you.

    How’s Your Net Worth Doing? (Free Money Finance)

    Is it time you did a net work check-up?

    Real Estate & Home Value

    5 Tips for Finding Your Perfect Home (StyleCaster)

    Apartment hunting can be stressful and exhausting. But if you approach the process knowing what you should consider and what questions to ask, you can find your dream home in short order.

    How to Earn Income for the Rest of Your Life: The Good, Bad and Ugly of Annuities (Generation X Finance)

    This is annuities 101. If you don’t know what annuities are, how they work or how you can use them to support yourself for the rest of your life, this is your post.

    Senate and House Approve Home Buyers Credit and Unemployment Benefits Extension (Quizzle Blog)

    Great news for first-time home buyers this week! The U.S. House and Senate passed a bill to extend the first-time home buyers tax credit until April 30, 2010. President Barack Obama will sign the bill into law Friday.

    Friday, October 23, 2009

    Best of Credit, Home & Money – Week of Oct. 18

    Happy Friday! Here are this week’s most interesting articles and blog posts about your home, money and credit – straight from the Quizzle Twitter page:

    Home & Money Saving Tips

    Eat Well, Lose Weight and Save Some Money (Fiscal Fizzle)

    Eating healthy and saving money are usually a contradiction of terms, but Fiscal Fizzle proves that it’s possible to shed pounds without lightening the weight of your wallet.

    Money Saving Techniques that Work and Don’t Work (Studenomics)

    Studenomics takes a realistic approach to saving money and recognizes that it’s better to save smarter than save harder.

    10 Surprising Things You Can Turn into Cash (My Dollar Plan)

    Turn items you paid for into cash back in your pocket! Learn 10 money making ideas that you’ve probably never thought of before.

    25 Frugal Halloween Costumes (Moolanomy)

    Don’t let the cost of costumes spoil your Halloween! Get creative, save money and have fun with these 25 inexpensive costume ideas.

    Investing Money & The Stock Market

    Tips for an Investing Newbie (Money Magazine)

    This article is a great resource for anyone who’s new to the investing game. Senior editor Walter Updegrave encourages building a solid foundation of knowledge rather than going for the hot stock tip or fast gain. Updegrave also offers some useful reading recommendations to help the investing newbie get off to the right start.

    Personal Finance & Budgeting

    Fall Finance To Do List (Financial Highway)

    Get your personal finances in order before the new year with Financial Highway’s fall finance to do list (say that five times fast!).

    The Upside: Habits of the Rich and Thin (Wallet Pop)

    Marc Acito takes a look at what it takes to be wealthy and skinny, finding that the two have a lot in common.

    What Are the Most Expensive Colleges in America? (Consumerist)

    College tuition is now climbing at a faster rate than the availability of financial aid, according to CNN Money. When considering where to go to college or where to send your kids to school, don’t forget to take a look at the bottom line. Find out which schools take the top spots on the most expensive colleges list.

    Friday, October 16, 2009

    Best of Credit, Home & Money – Week of Oct. 11

    Happy Friday! Pop Quizzle: What famous Irish playwright, poet and author was born on this day in 1854? (Answer at the end of this post.)

    Now on to your weekly roundup! Here are this week’s most interesting articles and blog posts about your home, money and credit – straight from the Quizzle Twitter page:

    Home & Money Saving Tips

    8 Ways to Stretch Your Money as a College Student (Quizzle Blog)

    Recent college grad and new Quizzle intern, Kristina, offers eight, great money saving tips for college students. Learn how to stretch your dollar and make the most of your college experience.

    10 Simple Home Tips to Prepare for the Winter (Quicken Loans)

    Our friends over at Quicken Loans give us an easy 10 tips to help us get our homes ready for winter. After the shock of my heating bills last winter, I’m definitely weatherizing my windows this year!

    On the Jobs Front

    Top 10 Careers with the Most Job Growth Potential (CNNMoney)

    CNN Money and Money Magazine gives us the top 10 careers with the best job growth potential. Is your job on the list?

    Personal Finance & Budgeting

    10 Things to Do with $1,000 Right Now (Consumerism Commentary)

    Even if you don’t have a thousand bucks burning a hole in your pocket right now, it’s good to keep smart advice handy in the event that you have the cash and you want to make the most of it. Flexo gives us 10 ideas of how to spend that dough.

    Answer to the Pop Quizzle: Oscar Wilde.

    Friday, September 25, 2009

    Best of Credit, Home & Money – Week of Sept. 20

    Friday’s here (yippee!) and so is your weekly roundup. The most interesting articles and blog posts about your home, money, credit and life straight from the Quizzle Twitter page:

    Credit Reports, Scores & Cards

    6 Credit Card Traps to Avoid Now (Smart Money)

    Rates, fees and awards – Oh my! Don’t get stuck with a bum deal when it comes to your credit cards. Find out what traps you can avoid and how to avoid them.

    Home & Money Saving Tips

    6 Ways to Save Money on Appliances (My Dollar Plan)

    Appliances, while time-saving and useful, are not exactly what I want to spend my hard-earned money on. Amanda at My Dollar Plan gives us the low-down on how to save money on these big-ticket items.

    Opt Out of Overdraft Fees (Consumerism Commentary)

    I don’t have to tell you why overdraft fees are frustrating. But take heart in the fact that some banks are now making it easier to ensure you never get slapped with that bugger of a fee again. Find out which banks and how they’re doing it.

    It’s the Economy, Stupid!

    7 Pieces of Good News about the Economy (Smart Money)

    I like any story that refers to “good news” and the “economy” in the same breath. Smart Money gives us seven reasons to be optimistic about our nation’s financial situation.

    News from the Fed

    What the Heck Is the Fed Funds Rate & Why Should I Care? (Quizzle Blog)

    The Federal Open Market Committee, aka “the fed,” met this week to discuss all things money and banking, among them, the fed funds rate. While they left the key rate unchanged at its 0% to 0.25% target range, one question inevitably arises with this announcement: What the heck is the fed funds rate and what does it have to do with me? I dissect this rate on the Quizzle Blog and tell you exactly how it affects your money.

    Personal Finance & Budgeting

    Essential Personal Finance eBooks (Get Rich Slowly)

    Ready to get your read on? J.D. over at Get Rich Slowly shares with us the best ebooks on the topic of personal finance.

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