January 2010

How much paper do you keep?

January 18, 2010

Just finished shoveling bushels of paper out of my file drawers, reorganizing the file system, and incinerating bank statements, credit card statements, health insurance claim statements, investment records, correspondence, and related junk that dates back to the early 1990s. Before I started, a four-drawer file cabinet in the garage was chuckablock full of old records, [...]

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Carnival of Money Stories: Springtime in Arizona Edition

January 18, 2010

Welcome to this week’s Carnival of Money Stories! I wish all our contributors and all our readers could be here in Arizona just now, where the weather is in the 70s, birds are singing in ecstasy, flowering plants are shivering with joy, and there’s not a snowdrift to shovel as far as you can see. [...]

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Tomorrow: Money Stories! March Madness!

January 17, 2010

The Carnival of Money Stories comes our way tomorrow morning! I have some amazing stories to share with you from bloggers all over the world. Be sure to visit and check them out. Also, don’t forget to go to Free Money Finance tomorrow for the March Madness kick-off! Funny is included in the competition this [...]

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How to Move Your Money

January 17, 2010

By now, I expect, you know there’s a movement afoot to get folks to transfer their cash out of the big banking institutions whose unregulated greed helped to bring on the Great Recession (if recession, not depression, is what it is).  Armed with a powerfully emotional video, the Move Your Money advocates urge megabank customers [...]

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Why I moved my money to a credit union

January 16, 2010

As Americans lose patience with the overweening greed on display at certain gargantuan banking institutions, a lot of people are talking about moving their money out of megabanks into small community banks or credit unions. I moved my money to a credit union years ago…and thereon hangs a tale. From the moment I graduated from [...]

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Nope… Money unhappens

January 15, 2010

That six-month free ride for COBRA sounded too good to be true, and, as the saying predicts, it wasn’t. True, I mean. Called the Department of Administration again today to confirm what I thought I’d heard and learned that the “six” syllable actually occurred in the word sixty, as in sixty days. You have sixty [...]

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