Last week I saw a preview of an upcoming Oprah show about what happens to people when they experience a financial windfall. As most people that read PF blogs would guess, it doesn’t usually turn out too well. I finally got a chance to watch the Oprah show that I had Tivo’d last week and found it pretty interesting. First there was a lady that
ELYM’s TOP Money Saving Idea of 2006
You can thank me later for pointing you to this article that just screams “resourceful”. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go see if I can find some filet mignon behind my grocery store. http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/1…
Winning the Money Marathon in 26.2 Steps
Becoming financially fit can be challenging. But consider this: Marathoners get up early on the weekends and run multiple miles, sometimes in the rain, skipping the breakfast buffet and Bloody Marys. Makes reaching financial fitness sound totally doable, doesn’t it? So in honor of the Seattle Marathon today, we offer 26.2 tips that work well both for running and personal finance See the whole article
Sometimes It’s Just Easier to Get a Job!
Seems like it would be a lot easier to just get a job, earn a little money and then go in and buy whatever he was going after to steal. Nothing in that store could have been too expensive for a minimum wage earner……… I highly recommend watching it all the way through. Man I miss being a cop sometimes!
Carnival Of Personal Finance #75
Everybody Loves Your Money: Your Personal Finance Article Dealer Thanks for coming by “ELYM’s Used PF Article Dealership“. Has anyone helped you yet? Can I show you around the carnival? Are you looking to check out an article today, or are you just browsing? Well, Let me just say, you’ve obviously got good taste in personal finance articles. Just you coming by today tells me
Money is root of anti-social behavior, study says
A team of psychologists may have discovered why money can’t buy happiness. Pictures of dollar bills, fantasies of wealth and wads of Monopoly money arouse feelings of self-sufficiency that result in selfish and often anti-social behavior, according to a study reported Friday in the journal Science. Read the entire article here
3 "Real Financial Hero" Videos You Have to Watch!
These videos are great. Pretty much sums up the way many people seem to think about finances. Thanks to Michael @ It’s Your Money for pointing me to these videos!
Carnival of Personal Finance is UP
The latest carnival of personal finance is up over at “A Geek’s World”. Yikes. That’s a lot of entries! I can see why his fingers got tired. Go check it out: . I’ll be hosting the carnival next week. Let’s hope that there aren’t quite that many entries next week. I may have to outsource the carnival to a foreign land where labor is cheaper………
Hundredaires in the Making
I love stumbling on to a good blog. I especially like blogs that put a sense of humor on an otherwise fairly mundane subject matter. Over at Adventure Money, Steve has put together a great blog post that spoofs the “Millionaires in the Making” series over at CNNMoney. I love the Millionaires series so I particularly enjoyed Steve’s spoof. Go check it out. I think
Breaking News – Britney Divorcing KFED
It’s a sad state of affairs when our national news organizations give so much coverage to a single wide living, uneducated, overhyped, talentless pop singer like Britney Spears during the national elections. Can’t they leave this kind of news to the entertainment shows? Better yet, just let it come out in the tabloids. And now they are asking questions like, “What’s next for Kfed, who’s