The Money Writers

In extreme temperatures, you want to keep the outside air ‘outside’ and the inside air ‘inside.’ This applies to not only winter, but summer as well.
As most of us transition into winter gradually this fall, temperatures are still moderate and that can lead to keeping the windows open more often. While it is certainly [...]

Love thy neighbor. Or would you rather rip them instead?
Real estate is not only about transactions and investments or even about home ownership, it is also about neighborhoods. I’ve frequently offered my thoughts on how we can all enjoy and improve the community and environment around us. But while the recommended way [...]

What would you do if you woke up tomorrow and had a million dollars?  Do you think your answers to that hypothetical question might change if you actually won a million dollars?
As I mentioned on QuickCents recently, Problogger had a cash giveaway where you were entered to win a variety of cash prizes by simply [...]

The olive oil issue returns! but this time, somebody else wants to talk about it. This post is authored by Paid Twice who writes over at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already. If you are looking for bloggers in debt, who are fighting it out and inspiring others to do the same, you should [...]

I don’t remember the last time I was this sore! We spent all weekend putting in a Pavestone patio with the help of my wife’s parents (thanks guys!).
We hit a few roadblocks along the way but managed to overcome them and now have a new back patio!  We still have one more step left to [...]

Golbguru at Money, Matter and More Musings looked at life from a stock market perspective.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance had a story on a woman who sued Apple for the recent price cut of iPhone.
Ben at Money Smart Life discussed why selling on eBay is a great way to make some extra cash.
Lazy Man at [...]

So much has happened this week as you can see from yet another massive roundup :). When my roundup grows this long, I’m going to experiment with this sort of layout. I hope it helps make things more readable and organized!
Picks From My Regular Reads

The Sun’s Financial Diary: Sun gamely shares [...]

Let me start this link fest with a congratulatory note to Super Saver @ My Wealth Builder - a long time reader of this blog and a fellow blogger who managed to achieve the mythical “retire in your forties” dream. Here are a few posts from him that are overflowing with the joy of [...]

I have talked about Tuesday Morning in the past, but for those of you who aren’t familiar with them, take a look at why Tuesday Morning is an undiscovered retail gem. You can find some of the best name brand items anywhere from 50% to 80% off regular price.
Not only are they a great [...]

This morning the wife and I went the grocery to pick up a couple of staples for the next week. We didn’t feel like getting all dressed up, so we put on some sweatpants and left the house to the local Safeway. We didn’t expect to find a row of Ferraris hanging [...]

Every quarter things get really busy at my job and everyone works like mad to get things done on time.  Teams stay all night and work weekends, it really sucks for the people involved.
Since the majority of people are salaried employees, there is no incentive for staying late and working insane hours.  As a team [...]

Just a few more revelations about the author of this blog.

When it rains, it pours. Another blog meme or two has knocked on my door.
Today, I have the opportunity to go slightly off our usual money topics since I’ve been recently tagged with a couple of internet blog memes. For those wondering what [...]

When the Dow hit the intra-day low of $12,455 on August 16, 1,545 points or 11% below its peak of 14,000, the talks were all about how the economy will slide into recession. And the 4,000 job losses in August’s payroll number made the recession look inevitable. Though the possibility is still there (former [...]

This post is part of a group money making survey on DoshDosh.com.
Anytime someone is looking for an easy way to earn some extra money, I recommend eBay since it shows quick results, is simple to get started, and has a low cost of entry.
Quick ResultsOne problem many people run into when trying to earn extra money is that they [...]

It feels like it was just yesterday that lot of *advices* were floating around in the personal finance blog community on how you should get out of the markets if the 1000+ points drop of the Dow (the Dow as 14,000 on July 19 and 12,845 on August 16) made you sweating and get up [...]

This finance findings report comes to you via my brand new computer I just finished building. About a month ago, my old desktop finally decided to stop working. Granted, it is over five years old and I probably could have fixed it with a new power supply, but a five year old computer is [...]

I have a previous post that compared my actively managed funds against Vanguard funds for a 5-year period that covered most of the time I invested in those funds. The purpose of the post was to have an idea whether actively managed funds, while costing a little more to own, indeed lagged low-cost index funds [...]

A few times a month, I would like to open the floor here to a few guest writers from the personal finance blogosphere. I am very fortunate to have Paid Twice from I’ve Paid For This Twice Already to contribute a guest post today. Paid Twice is “a 30-something married mom of two [...]

Some things that have been going through my mind lately…
Blogging

I wonder how readers will react to a whole post of random thoughts. Perhaps they’ll let me know with a comments.
I have about 18 design changes and features that I’d like to implement on Lazy Man and Money - if I had the [...]

Since Monday evening, this week has been horrible for me in terms of how much crap life can hand over to someone in such a short amount of time. I don’t know how people tend to look at stuff, but right now, to me, it seems that getting your dreams crushed is far more [...]

One of the reasons I started this afternoon links was to introduce readers to blogs and articles that I like. When I was just starting out a few blogs did a similar thing for me and it really helped me stick with writing when the stats weren’t there. One of these sites, [...]

Early last week, the Yale endowment, one of the nation’s largest college fund, reported an annual return of 28% from its investment for the fiscal year ended June 30th. According to YaleDailyNews.com, the Yale endowment has returned 17.8% annually over the past decade (in 2000 the fund returned 41%), leading other large rivals [...]

The Financial Planning Association is proud to announce the sixth annual Financial Planning Week. Financial Planning Week brings together those who need, support and deliver financial planning. During this special week, FPA strives to increase public awareness of the financial planning process to help people make prudent financial decisions to achieve their goals and [...]

It seems like Baby Bonds are in the news. I’ve been reading at Dollar Roller and Money Smart Life. The idea seems to be that the government would open a $5,000 account for every newborn baby in the US. The money would grow and mature at the child’s 18th birthday. [...]

I took a look around and realized how much the market for fakes is booming. We’ve actually got a growth market for cosmetic replicas — imagine how they’ve combined false teeth with false jewelry (okay, the false teeth claim is a stretch . In case you’re wondering, these are “grillz”.):

Or see how [...]