My wife and I own an elliptical machine that has been out of commission the last several months. We have an extended warranty on it and the warranty company sent repairman after repairman out to repair it – only the problem never went away. After waiting almost a month since the last visit, it was supposedly “fixed” yesterday. I know, a month is a long time to wait! It took awhile for the part to come in, and it arrived right before Christmas, so we had to wait until after the New Year before we could get another appointment with the repair man. Anyway, I’m hoping the machine is repaired and usable now; I need to lose a little winter weight!
Recommended articles from my reader:
March Madness for Personal Finance Bloggers. FMF, from the personal finance blog Free Money Finance, is hosting another March Madness blogging tournament at his website. In the past, bloggers submitted their favorite article from the previous year and readers voted for their favorite articles in a head to head tournament of articles. FMF then donates $1,000 to charities supported by the authors of the winning articles. This is a fun tournament for a great cause. You can read more about it at Free Money Finance: Attention Financial Bloggers: Free Promotion for Your Top Posts and $500 Given to the Charity of Your Choice.
Ask the Readers: How Much Money Would it Take For You to Compromise Your Principles?. What would you do, or not do, for $20,000? The choice may seem easy to some, but difficult to others. I highly encourage reading this article, and the comments.
Free time does not translate to massive productivity. I agree with this article 100%. I am at my most productive when I have structure in my schedule. I’m not always disciplined enough to set and keep an efficient schedule, but this is something I am working on.
How Many Cookie Jars Is Your Hand In? “Why have 1 job when you can have multiple jobs?” Having multiple sources of income insulates you against economic downturns and puts power into your hands.
Prison Taught Me Everything I Need to Know About Personal Finance. This is an interesting article, but one I recommend.
Dave from My Two Dollars asks a question a lot of people are asking right now – Why are my credit cards being canceled?.
The Life Cycle Of A Purchase – From Desired Object To Tossed Clutter. I don’t often suffer from buyer’s remorse, but I’ve had it once or twice. Now I am much more careful how I spend my money!
Don’t Let Your Goals Be Dumb. How to set SMART goals to help you better achieve them.
5 Surefire Ways to Stop Thinking Your Paycheck is Never Enough. It’s easy to think you don’t earn enough when you are living outside your means.
This week’s carnivals:
- Money Hacks Carnival of 2009 was hosted at The Writer’s Coin. My article was selected as an Editor’s choice. Thanks, WC!
- The Festival of Frugality was hosted at Dough Roller.
- The Carnival of Money Stories Edition #92 was hosted at Gather Little by Little.
- Carnival of Consumer Credit #5 was hosted at Arrive Financial.
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Great motley of posts you have, nothing beats an exercise edition to start out the new year!!
No doubt… It’s been awhile for me. I was winded after that first session!