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Totally Money Blog Carnival #4

The fourth Totally Money Blog Carnival went live this morning at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff. I hope to see you again next week! Without further ado, here were the Editor’s Picks for this week: Michael Pruser presents Should You Take the Annuity or Lump Sum Payment? posted at The Dough Roller Dave@50plusfinance presents Do… Read more »

Sunday evening round up

What did you get up to this weekend? I worked (no rest for the wicked), did a little tiny bit of relaxing, and then broke my budget into a hundred, million, thousand little pieces today while shopping on King’s Road. Damn you, Kurt Geiger! Now for your regular scheduled programming: fab things from ’round the… Read more »

FruGal on the fly

Sometimes being busy can be the greatest enemy you have against meeting you financial goals, especially if you are trying to cut back on spending. Often a long day at work means reaching for the take-out menus rather than cooking, and rushing around between meetings all day means buying coffees, lunches and snacks on the… Read more »

Totally Money Blog Carnival #3

The third Totally Money Blog Carnival went live this morning at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff.  I hope to see you again next week! Without further ado, here were the Editor’s Picks for this week: liverealnow presents What Happens When You Save posted at Live Real, Now. Mike Piper presents Income Tax 101: Tax Brackets and Withholding… Read more »

Simple ways to start saving

Last week the insurance company Aviva released their Family Finances Report, which showed that an alarming one third of families have no savings, and 40% save nothing each month. Even worse, 60% of single-parent households have no savings at all. Saving money is one of those things that people always mean to do, but is… Read more »

Self-employed workers less able to repay debts

I read an interesting report today published by the debt charity Consumer Credit Counselling Services (CCCS) that showed that self-employed workers are far less able to repay their debts than those who do not work for themselves. Overall, of the 10,000 self-employed people who approached CCCS for debt help last year, only 17 per cent… Read more »

Do one simple thing for better finances

At this time of the year it’s hard not to get a little bit anxious about money. Still waiting for that first pay-packet of the year and the last one you get vanished a few days before Christmas, you’ve probably received your monthly credit card bill that has starkly outlined in black and white all… Read more »

Totally Money Blog Carnival #2

The second Totally Money Blog Carnival went live this morning at Budgeting in the Fun Stuff. Thank you to everyone who participated – with more than 50 great submissions, this was even bigger than last week’s first edition ever! I hope to see you again next week! Without further ado, here were the Editor’s Picks for… Read more »

Sunday evening round-up

Sunday evening is here again. It always seems to arrive so fast, doesn’t it? Hope you are doing something fabulous to see the weekend off in style.  And speaking of fabulous, here are some reads from ’round the web this week: The Financial Blogger has some tips for 20-somethings: 30 Financial Moves Before 30– Ideas… Read more »

Free British Military Fitness workouts

If your New Year’s resolution involved anything to do with fitness and you’re still looking for the motivation to actually begin carrying it out, it’s your lucky day. British Military Fitness, the famed bootcamp-style outdoor fitness classes run by either serving or ex-army military personnel, are giving away free one week memberships. The membership can… Read more »