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- December 21st, 2009
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Money Saving Monday: Air Travel
I set out to write a post about how to get the best deal on air travel. My list consisted of the following: Book travel as far in advance as possible. Use an air travel aggregator site. Get an airli…
- December 18th, 2009
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glblguy has posted a new entry on: Gather Little By Little
SmartyPig Card Giveaways and Link Roundup
It is now time to name the 2 SmartyPig contest winners of a $50 gift card for their SmartyPig account! #1 CM (comment #12) #2 Rebecca (comment #27) I’ll be contacting the winners to send them the…
- December 17th, 2009
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Investment Strategies With $10,000 or less #3: Preauthorized Investing Setup
Last week, I discussed why I really like index mutual funds. Some readers might prefer to trade ETFs (Exchange Traded Fund) directly, in order to replicate stock market indices with lower fees. Howe…
- December 16th, 2009
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Save $2,000 or more this year. Maybe.
I do not normally like to steal other people’s ideas, but I thought I would offer some responses to a recent article that I saw in a magazine. No, not online, an actually paper-and-ink glossy m…
- December 15th, 2009
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Chase Blueprint: Manage Your Money Wisely and Pay Down Your Debts Faster
chase blueprint In recent times, I have been receiving email from Chase and their “fabulous” new concept: Chase Blueprint. I was a bit reluctant to look into this “new concept” as I wondered…
- December 14th, 2009
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The Holiday Finances
Christmas is not my favorite holiday. I enjoy the spirit and the meaning of the season. I am all in favor of celebrating the birth of Christ and I am not all that opposed to a fat man sliding down my…
- December 11th, 2009
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Friday Gathering: Global Warming Edition
How is that Global Warming treating you, Midwest and Northeast? Here are some articles that I found interesting this week: Jill, one of the new writers at Moolanomy posted a list of items for your en…
- December 10th, 2009
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Investment Strategies With $10,000 or less #2: Index Mutual Funds
Last Tuesday, we looked at how to create a bond ladder with less than $10,000. While certificates of deposit are good to balance out your portfolio and provide peace of mind with security like a com…
- December 9th, 2009
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Women are best at savings!
I thought I would share this article coming from our Europeans cousins I don’t think that women are that different in North America; they are definitely best saver than men Research in Ireland…
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Visualize debt freedom
I often struggle with my weight, eating properly, getting exercise and all that goes with it. I have learned the one way to motivate myself is to visualize the goal. To think about how it feels to be…
- December 8th, 2009
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Investment Strategies With $10,000 or less #1: CD Ladder
Being a Financial Planner, I am always discussing different investment strategies with clients and colleagues. I would say that we are all tempted to think that the most profitable and easiest strate…
- December 7th, 2009
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Christmas bonus or Christmas party?
I changed jobs a couple of years ago. For the most part, I am happy with the change. The new job is better for my family and I like our new location better. However, it has become clear to me that &#…
- December 4th, 2009
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Friday Gathering: My Daughter’s Birthday Edition
Here are some articles from around the personal finance blogosphere that I think you might like. Do not miss the big third anniversary give-away at The Financial Blogger! Entering the contest require…
- December 3rd, 2009
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2010 Stimulus Check – Will There Be Another Stimulus Check Coming Next Year?
As I previously mentioned, most of the growth present in the US economy is coming from the money injected into our capitalist system by the Government. The housing market hasn’t seemed to pick up…
- December 2nd, 2009
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Tracking every expense
On my personal finance journey, I have come to understand that knowledge is power. Nothing demonstrated to me the wastefulness of our spending habits until I started keeping track of our finances and…
- December 1st, 2009
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4 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself to Achieve Your Financial Goals
I read a very interesting post over at Bible Money Matters about setting your course for next year now. This article was about setting your financial goals for 2010 before it happens . Too often, w…
- November 30th, 2009
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Money Saving Monday: Coffee
If our financial situation ever worsened to the point where had to cut every single unnecessary expense, coffee would be the last thing to go. There is something about that black, bitter brew that ju…
- November 27th, 2009
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The cost of Thanksgiving
My wife and kids and I live a fourteen hour drive from my family and a twelve hour drive in the exact opposite direction from my wife’s family, so sometimes it is difficult to make a decision a…
- November 26th, 2009
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Insider trading and why you must avoid it!
Insider trading is one of those things that we all hear about. Yet few know what it is and tend to think (incorrectly I might add) that only the big hedge fund managers should worry about trading on…
- November 25th, 2009
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Black Friday Gathering (Wednesday Edition)
Here are some articles about the day that has come to be known as Black Friday. The name comes from the fact that many retailers stay in the “red” or operate at a deficit all year until t…
- November 24th, 2009
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Lazy = No money
Okay, that title was just to get your attention. People who have little money are certainly not all lazy. A lot of people struggle to make ends meet while still working hard. My point is that many ti…
- November 23rd, 2009
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SmartyPig Review – 2 X $50 Giveaway – A Smart Way To Save Money!
Last week, I attended an Economic Conference about the global stock market. The economist pointed out that most Americans started saving again instead of spending away all their money. I was happy to…
- November 20th, 2009
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Friday Gathering: My favorite holiday is right around the corner!
Some of us are going to be seeing a lot of traffic lights over the next week or so . . . Here are some articles that I like: A great article from Kevin at Moolanomy where he challenges us to help our…
- November 19th, 2009
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Talking Money with your (future) wife
As I had written a few weeks ago, a good friend of mine is getting married in early 2010. Being a financial planner, I always find it interesting to see how couples deal with money. It is often overl…
- November 18th, 2009
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Carnival of Money Hackers – My Money Success Edition
Hey! Another Carnival at GLBL! Don’t worry; this is the last one until the Carnival of Personal Finance at the end of the year Along with the Carnival, I’ve decided to share a few of my money…
- November 17th, 2009
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More discussion on the homeschool issue
There were so many questions from yesterday’s post on Homeschool Finance, that I decided to do a follow-up post today and explain a few things: Mike asked: Have you calculated the option cost o…
- November 16th, 2009
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Homeschool Finance
When my wife and I started to have children, we never thought that we would end up as homeschoolers. This year we are just that. We have a first grader and a kindergartener and we are educating them…
- November 13th, 2009
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Friday Gathering: Mrs. Stew’s Picks Edition
Here are some articles that Mrs. Stew liked this week: Think Your Way to Wealth wrote about the challenges of living on one income. There are challenges, but also blessings to having a parent at home…
- November 12th, 2009
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Are you as leveraged as Goldman Sachs?
For decades, many of us have been putting more and more of our money into real estate. Strange enough, it is an asset class that many owners do not even consider when they answer questions about their…
- November 11th, 2009
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Lucy, you got some [financial] ’splainin’ to do!
I have been doing a lot of thinking about family finance and especially the financial relationship between a husband and wife. I do not have all of the answers to solve every problem in this area, bu…
- November 10th, 2009
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Oh, the weather outside is frightful
. . . or soon will be. We used to live in one of the coldest areas of the country. Our heating bills for a 1,200 square foot house ranged from $225 and $275 a month during the winter. We now live in…
- November 9th, 2009
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Carnival of Money Stories – My Money Flaws Edition
Welcome to this edition of the Carnival of Money Stories! Since all featured posts reflect a money story, I decided to share my money flaws along with the articles. If you are new to Gather Little by…
- November 6th, 2009
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Friday Gathering: Daylight Savings Edition
I don’t know about you, but I think Daylight Savings is dumb. Why not just let the amount of sunlight wax and wane naturally? I miss driving home when the sun is still up at 5 pm . . . not a bi…
- November 5th, 2009
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Are you preparing for the worst?
Last week, after reading Stew’s article about why he does not expect to buy gold, I started thinking. Over the past few months, I’ve been hearing an increasing amount of interest in preparing for…
- November 4th, 2009
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glblguy has posted a new entry on: Gather Little By Little
How much does your vice cost?
Wikipedia defines a vice as a practice or a habit considered immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a defect, an infirmity or m…
- November 3rd, 2009
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10 Small Ways to Save Money That Make a Big Difference
Image: alamosbasement When it comes to saving, sometimes starting small feels almost like not starting at all. A bit here and a bit there tends to add up like drops in a bucket. The important thing t…
- November 2nd, 2009
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Be a discriminating customer, a diligent employee and a generous entrepreneur
The free market is not perfect. We all know of stories about unethical or corrupt businesses, but lately capitalism has been getting a bad rap. I just thought it might be nice to remind ourselves of…
- October 30th, 2009
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“In Cheap We Trust”: Review and Giveaway
If we had to separate people into 2 different clans: The Thrifts and the Spendthrifts, I would probably be closer to the latter. Unfortunately, the thing I like most about money is spending it. Howe…
- October 29th, 2009
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Best Investment for 2009: Use your Emergency Fund to pay off your debt
Just by writing this title, I already know that people won’t agree with this strategy. How can you tell people to get rid of their emergency fund while we are in one of the most important recessio…
- October 28th, 2009
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A fragrant aroma
This passage is one of the most instructive passages regarding money in the New Testament. The end of this letter is more or less a simple thank you note to the Philippian church, but it throws back…
- October 27th, 2009
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Festival of Frugality #201 – Life Stages & Home Ownership Lesson Edition
Festival of Frugality – Life Stages & Home Ownership Lesson Edition Welcome to the #201 Festival of Frugality! If you are new to Gather Little By Little, I can suggest a few of our great posts:…
- October 26th, 2009
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A dozen (or so) ways to make a few extra bucks
Everybody is looking for ways to make extra money these days. Since I started working for money around age 12 or 13, I have always had several streams of income. Someday, I hope to be able to live on…
- October 23rd, 2009
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Friday Gathering: The Yankees are probably going to win it again Edition
Here are some articles that I like this week. I hope you find something to think about! Craig Ford at Moolanomy asked should parents have a financial double standard for sons and daughters? I have bo…
- October 22nd, 2009
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5 steps to follow to make sure you do not lose everything to the next Bernie Madoff
It was a good news story wasn’t it? Much of the world did not even know what a Ponzi scheme was, let alone that it could provide a way for Bernard Madoff to perform the single most important fra…
- October 21st, 2009
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Why I will probably never buy gold
Important: I am not an economist or an investment advisor. Everything you read here is simply opinion based on my limited knowledge and (hopefully) a little common sense. Lately, I have been hearing…
- October 20th, 2009
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Ask me anything returns
This is Stew and I am going on six months of posting here at Gather Little by Little. I am thankful to Glblguy for originally giving me the opportunity to write for a blog of this size and also great…
- October 19th, 2009
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glblguy has posted a new entry on: Gather Little By Little
Money Savings Tips for a Wedding
Congratulations! You are going broke! I mean… getting married! As I mentioned in my first post on how to save money for a wedding over at my other blog, my best friend is getting married next sp…
- October 16th, 2009
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Friday Gathering: Indian Summer Edition (can I say that?)
My daughter has requested a fairly expensive Halloween costume. She wants to be “Kit” from the American Girl book series. Hopefully I can convince her to accept one of the low cost costume…
- October 15th, 2009
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Investing in charity
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which He hath given thee. ~ Deut. 16:17 Charity is no easy subject, it is neither black nor white and there are certai…
- October 14th, 2009
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Buying in bulk pitfalls
Mrs. Stew does the majority of the grocery shopping in our home. She knows where to find the deals, which coupons are best and what we need. She does a nice job of feeding our family of five for as li…
