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Totally Money Blog Carnival #18 – 6 Ways to Save Money Edition

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Ramsay presents Borrowing From Your 401k. Among the many benefits afforded to many 401k participants is the ability to borrow funds from the account for personal purposes. Make sure that none of your credit cards are over 50 per cent of your utilization amount. Sometimes spending money just makes you feel good.

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Meet a Reader | Kim from Iowa

The Frugal Girl

We are both naturally frugal and a bit introverted which makes it easier to save money. I first stumbled across Kristen’s blog about 10 years ago. I didn’t relate to the homeschooling posts at that time so I ended up re-discovering her blog about 6-7 years ago and have been reading regularly ever since.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Invest in Gold

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

There are benefits and disadvantages to each of them and it really depends on what type of investor you when you make the choice. Have you looked at your 401K and almost choked because of its decline? Making the Decision to Invest In Gold. Deciding which type of gold investment to pursue will take some research on your part.

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10 Reasons You’re Broke

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Instead of investing your money in education or your 401K, your money goes to clothes, gadgets, big screen TV’s or alcohol. If you make $50,000 a year after taxes and spend $60,000 a year, your finances are going backward. You won’t make any sacrifices. Or making your own coffee. You have no budget.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

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How is it possible that a couple making $200K don’t know where $60K is going every year? Live Real, Now: Make Extra Money, Part 6: Setting Up a Site In this installment of the Make Extra Money series, LRN is going to show you how to set up a WordPress site. There were 50 submissions this week. In no particular order….

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Link Love Carnival #4

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Overtime we will make a real difference. If you would like to join us in our fight against cancer, you can make a donation by clicking here. Suba tells us why you should not use your 401K. If you would like to submit your blog article to the next edition of The Link Love Carnival, please use the carnival submission form.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #241 – June 15, 2012

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The Skilled Investor , Editor Budgeting and Economics Paul Vachon presents Frugal Living Made Easy posted at The Frugal Toad , saying, “Frugal living is all about making informed and deliberate choices in how to spend money. Thanks to NCR, using your smartphone to make withdrawals at an ATM is on the horizon.

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