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January 2010

A New Way to Save When Grocery Shopping

January 31, 2010
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My wife and I have never been big couponers. Is that even a word? No matter. I certainly don’t have the patience to try and match what we are buying to coupons and then figure out what we could make based on those choices. I know there are volumes of sites devoted to that exact [...]

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Friday Round Up and New Stuff I’m Looking At

January 28, 2010

Before I kick off my slightly more abbreviated round-up I wanted to highlight two sites I’ve been looking at this week. Drop Ship Maven I came across the Drop Ship Maven by one of my Twitter friends. It’s a blog about pursing an online business using drop shippers. Effectively you sell products that you never [...]

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Why a Storage Unit is the Gateway Drug to Financial Ruin

January 27, 2010
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Much like the foosball table was the harbinger of doom during the dot.com era, the storage unit foreshadows the danger lurking on the other side of those macrame plant holders. Now give me a minute of time and I think you’ll come around to my way of thinking here. I’ll also play the “that was [...]

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Save by Dropping Your GAP Automobile Insurance

January 25, 2010
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I just realized as part of us paying off our car we need to drop our GAP insurance that covered the balance between our actual loan and what our car was worth. Really I should have done this a few months ago, but it just occurred to me. So if you think you owe less [...]

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Friday Roundup Olympic Edition

January 22, 2010
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Well it’s been one week since I declared We’re Debt Free! and yep I’m still debt free, and feeling good. Looking forward to February where we’ll be heading North to Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics! I’ve always wanted to go since I was a kid and I’m finally getting to fulfill that dream. What’s [...]

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Retired Early, In Debt, No Job: When the American Dream becomes a Nightmare

January 21, 2010
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After publishing my story last week on becoming Debt Free I received the following email from a new reader. Dear Paul, It was nice going through your blog. I read your Quicken 2010 review. I have been a Quicken user since they first came out with it. I used to listen to Dave Ramsey on [...]

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Some Practical Advice for Using Facebook For Your Small Business

January 20, 2010
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Look anywhere and you’ll hear someone telling you that you need to be using social media for your small business. For our purposes we’ll be talking about Facebook but you cannot ignore Twitter or Linkedin as other avenues for networking. Working with Facebook doesn’t come free, okay it does monetarily but you need to devote [...]

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The Career Diaries: Concierge, Front Desk, Doorman, Greeter

January 19, 2010
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The career diaries profile different professions giving you an insiders view of various jobs and careers. The goal being to give you a better view of a potential career by giving you more than the 10,000 foot view offered in vocation guides and top 50 job lists. A job is much more than a paycheck, [...]

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We’re Debt Free!

January 15, 2010
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That’s right, this is the post I’ve been waiting to write since before I started FiscalGeek. We just sent off our final payoff to Wachovia Dealer Services on our VW Sportwagen. In just over 11 months we have managed to pay off $63,535.65 of credit cards, credit lines and two vehicle loans. Yes we still [...]

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Should you Invest or Save for Retirement While in Debt?

January 13, 2010
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I know this is a question that a lot of people have wrangled with in their own lives. When I was struggling to find a plan for my own personal finances I took the shotgun approach. Yes I contributed some money to my 401k, some went to the kids college, a little extra went towards [...]

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