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Financial Fitness Tips: Things You Should Never Buy Used, Selling on Etsy, Home Swapping and More

I love reading articles around the internet throughout the week and learn a lot from other personal finance bloggers while doing so.  Going forward, I’m going to call my roundups “financial fitness tips” because essentially I’m sharing tips to help you become more financial fit and new ideas.  This week has a number of great [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Weekend Edition

It’s been a while since I’ve written a round up post, so I figured it was about time to highlight some posts from some great personal finance bloggers. I recommend visiting these blogs and signing up for their newsletters and feeds if your not already following them. Accelerating Your Financial Success Through Technology from Matt [...]

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How To Survive (and perhaps thrive) On A Teacher’s Salary [Giveaway & Roundup]

It’s been an exciting time around our house this week.  My daughter started Kindergarten which is one of those life events I don’t think I’ll ever forget as a parent.  In fact, you typically don’t forget it as a child either. I think most people remember their Kindergarten teacher no matter how old they are today.  Elementary [...]

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Christian Personal Finance Roundup

This week in the roundup I thought I would mention some articles from a few of the Christian personal finance blogs I follow.  Enjoy! Pete talks about putting a contingency plan in place for major life events.  If you plan now, you’ll be prepared for these big life events that can cause money problems and [...]

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Personal Finance RoundUp: GRABBBR Edition

One Money Design is a partner in GRABBBR, that is Giveaway Reaching All Bible Based Blog Readers.  This is my featured GRABBBR blog post.  By leaving a comment on this post, you will gain 5 ENTRY POINTS and may win cash or prizes.  Discussion is encouraged!  However, only 1 comment per person will be counted towards [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Should You Buy a Swimming Pool?

Check out these tips for the self employed. You can get yourself into trouble if you’re self employed and not preparing for taxes.  Taxes half to be estimated and paid quarterly.  You might also consider incorporating to avoid personal liability.  And definitely make sure you’re organized and tracking expenses.  [Redeeming Riches] To be honest, having [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Start Acting Wealthy

I hope you enjoy the wide variety of personal finance articles that grabbed my attention over the past week. I’ve been thinking more and more about all the little purchase and convenience related items.   While $2 here and $1 there doesn’t seem like much money; it certainly adds up over time.  I know, I know, [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Tips to Buy a Car in a Private Sale

Some Christians question the need for life insurance because they think it contends with with having faith in God.  However, scripture tells us differently.  1 Tim 5:8 says “If anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his immediate family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.”  [Kick Debt Off] If [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Creative Ways to Make Money

I love it when people are serious about achieving their financial goals.  Through a simple, yet creative $20 challenge, this couple is finding ways to earn some extra blow money while they sacrifice their income to get out of debt.   Each of us has a very small amount of “blow money” every month, but the [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Don’t Look at Your Investment Portfolio Everyday

Personal Finance Around the Blogosphere Sometimes (not always) you can learn some good tips by listening to a rich person’s tips.  Now, I’m not in support of the pursuit of riches for material things.  However, I couldn’t resist mentioning this post because I live in the Dallas area.  Mark Cuban, owner of the Mavericks, provides [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: How Much Should I Save for Retirement?

Personal Finance Around the Blogosphere There are a number of financial pitfalls you need to avoid that can derail your personal finances.  I like the advice here of spending less than you earn and also having a game plan to the pitfalls.  Besides accumulating credit card or car debts I think people get into a [...]

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Personal Finance Roundup: Lower Your Car Insurance Costs

Are you considering debt settlement as a part of your get out of debt strategy?   If so, you need to know about debts that settlement can’t fix.  Besides, according to scripture, if you have a means to pay, you should pay your debts and not try to settle them.  The wicked borrow and do not [...]

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