I’ve been off my schedule a little bit here since I have some relatives over for a short visit. And it’s Mother’s Day, so I decided to take most of the weekend off and strayed a little from my regular routine — something I do once in a blue moon.
This […]
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Personal Finance Across Borders I - Retirement Accounts Million Dollar Journey compared retirement saving accounts offered in the U.S. and Canada. No much difference I have to say.
7 Tips to Simplify Today Brip Blap offers some ideas to live a simple life. The one I like the most is […]
What college student do you know that isn’t cheap? When you’re in school every penny counts and you learn to manage your money on a very tight budget. Saving money simply becomes second nature to you. I was so cheap in college I used to:
-Wear every last piece of clothing to delay paying for the laundry […]
Mother’s Day is tomorrow. Of course you already knew that. Since I already wrote my Mother’s Day post, I thought I’d share some great Mother’s Day songs with you. I did a little quick research and found “Mother Mother” by Tracy Bonham’s and “Mother” by Danzig. On second thought, let’s just scrap the cuddly song idea and get onto the links.
Over on my sister site, I wrote about the great value that I find in Taco Bell’s healthy Fresco menu.
Did you know that just by getting in shape you can save yourself from going under?
Plan Ahead […]
Yeah, I’m bringing it! Back again! Woo! Yeah! I missed the linklings last weekend but I’m back at this weekend. Things are slowly settling into place at Casa del Blap. Due to Bubelah’s iron will soldiering forward despite two whiny babies - and a newborn - things are still […]
Think back to the time when you’d take on summer jobs or interned while you were still in school. It was fun, easy and earned you some extra bucks. So who says we can’t keep on doing this long after our teenage years are over?
I actually have a family member in […]
The price of stamps goes up an entire penny on Monday. If you use a lot of stamps you may consider buying 100 of the Forever Stamps at $41. This will save $1 vs. buying them next week. I know a great many people that will consider this. Some of them will use 20 minutes of their and 80 cents of gas to save that dollar.
I just got back from the post office, I had some other errands to run. I asked the clerk if people were buying more Forever Stamps. She said that […]
I realize this is a bit late for a roundup on the April stats, but I’m just finally getting my sea legs back after a hectic (and for me, quite sickly) week and a half. I still want to make sure I thank everyone who deserves to be thanked for their contributions to this […]
Another week, and another set of links. I wish I had something exciting to talk about or some news to share, but I’m experiencing a bad case of writer’s block this week. In fact, I could use some time off, so if you are a blogger that talks about personal finance and would like to […]
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It has been more than four months since I last updated my little interest rates table. During this four-month period, the rate picture of online banks has changed a lot, going down 5% something to mostly in the neighbourhood of 3% APY, as the Fed cut interest rates every […]
To celebrate My Dollar Plan’s six month anniversary, it’s time for a giveaway! Since it is Free Money Friday, I thought it would be fun for me to chip in with some free money for you! I’m giving away a Amazon.com $50 gift card!
Fun Ways to Shop Amazon
Amazon.com is one of my favorite online retailers. […]
Health insurance coverage can be a complex benefit to understand with the multitude of rules and restrictions that many insurance companies have in place. If you fail to follow your insurance plan’s guidelines, you may end up getting medical treatment that isn’t covered and having to pay more for health care.
One of the keys to […]
The following is a guest post by Jonathan of Master Your Card blog; (RSS feed). This post is a little bit different from many of the posts I have on brip blap, but I thought it was an interesting concept worth talking about - attempts by the banking industry to start pushing consumer debt […]
Local cable has been running a television commercial that simply rips my heart out. A young girl around eight goes into a jewelry store with her dad and her bright pink piggy bank. The dad helps her pick out some jewelry for mom and the commercial ends with everyone smiling and happy. Even though it’s […]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: “Celebrate Mother’s Day the Way You Think She’d Want You To”, url: “http://blog.prosper.com/2008/05/09/celebrate-mothers-day-the-way-you-think-shed-want-you-to/” });
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In no particular order, with no particular theme, here are a few random simplification tips. Each one of them were ideas I had for separate posts, but they never really gelled, except #2, which was one of my early, early posts. Hopefully taken as a whole they provide a few simple ways to […]
Something that I would like to learn more about is how personal finance issues work in the U.S. For example, how do their retirement 401k and roth IRA/traditional IRA systems work? How do they compare to an RRSP and TFSA? How about their mortgages and real estate system?
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The economic stimulus rebate checks are in the mail, have you gotten your rebate yet? If you’re not sure whether you’re getting any money, check out these economic stimulus check frequently asked questions.
If you meet the qualifications and want to know when you’re getting your rebate check, the IRS has put up a site called “Where’s my […]
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In the June issue of Consumer Reports, the magazine gives its readers some ideas to save money at the pump. In addition to tips that we have already knew, such as avoiding rapid acceleration/stop, there are also tips that I didn’t know before or haven’t paid any attention, such […]
The Carnival of Personal Finance #151 highlighted a prominent theme this week with an edition aptly named as “Bloggers On Surviving The Squeeze”, held at Alpha Consumer. The “belt tightening” theme continues to be the talk of the day in the money blogosphere as we grow more attuned to the nation’s growing financial challenges […]
The recently expired merger offer from Microsoft to Yahoo got me thinking about two things: what went wrong and what can we learn from it. On a lot of levels the merger makes a lot of sense. Microsoft needs to ramp up their search capabilities to compete with Google. Acquiring Yahoo would give them a boost in the right direction. There are a lot of other parts to Yahoo’s business that would also help Microsoft’s cause. So why isn’t Microhoo up and battling against Google today?
Corporate Culture Clash
Nearly ten years ago, I worked for an […]
