April 2008 Personal Finance Site Rankings
Included are blogs that meet the following criteria:

Personal finance related material
Minimum subscriber count of 200
Publicly displayed feed count and source

Sites are ranked as of Feedburner subscriber count on April 23, 2008. The feed displays will monitor the current counts each day. The ranking will remain static using the April [...]

Posted April 23, 2008 in Blogging | 10 Comments »

We have gotten a few calls since we put my car up for sale. The most interesting was one that kept text messaging us asking questions that were already answered in the ad. The final question was if we would accept $8,000 more than the asking price and send them a check for the difference. [...]

Posted April 23, 2008 in Carnivals, Roundups | 4 Comments »

Happy retirement paperwork filing day, mom! My mom is turning in her paperwork today to retire later this summer. I made her a checklist of all the things she needs to do before the big day.
I expanded the list here to include planning for those of you nearing retirement (or wishing you were!). Many [...]

Posted April 22, 2008 in Retirement | 8 Comments »

“Don’t put all your eggs in one basket” is a common phrase for investing, but it also applies to your income. Diversifying your income streams is a great way to position yourself against the unknowns: job loss, downturn in the market, business failure, etc.
We made a goal to work on diversifying our income. Here’s [...]

Posted April 21, 2008 in Investing | 7 Comments »

In my search to bring you Free Money every Friday, I started checking out the bank accounts that I have open that I haven’t used in awhile.
I found an old account at Virtual Bank that has a referral program. It must be pretty old, since I noticed it still has my maiden name on [...]

Posted April 18, 2008 in Quick Money | 24 Comments »