Archive for December, 2009

Simple Weekend Roundup Sunday Holiday Edition

There are so many personal finance posts each week it is not always easy keeping up with all of them. A great way to find out the best posts of the week is to read a personal finance blogger’s weekly roundup. There were several good roundups this week that I thought you may find valuable as well.

Here are this week’s Personal Finance Roundups:

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Simple Weekend Roundup – Pre New Year Planning

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. Now we are looking forward to the New Year. As you look to the new year now is probably the best to look back at the goals you set last year and what goals you want to achieve this coming year. If you want to simplify your financial lifestyle now is the time to start planning how you will begin or continue to simplify your financial lifestyle.

This week’s edition of Simple Weekend Reading Roundup features some recent articles I have read that I believe can help you with planning your finances for the coming year:

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How does your personal financial budget fit?

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Its the end of the year, we are all planning for the new year deciding what we want to accomplish next year. You are probably looking at your budget if you have one and looking to see how you can do a better job of sticking to your budget. If you don’t have a budget you are probably saying to yourself, I need to budget but I can not stick to one.  In a recent post Simple Financial Tips – Budget Busters, I discussed some common budget busters, which may help with your budget planning as well as help you stick to your budget.

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Simple Personal Financial Tips – Cash Only

Do you want to simplify your personal finances and stop spending more than you make each month. Have you consider going to a cash only financial lifestyle? We have all heard the term Cash is King. Well its true but not only is cash king. Its also simple. Using cash can help you simplify your personal finances and help you live a debt free financial life.

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Simple Sunday Edition- Personal Finance Weekend Roundups

There are so many personal finance posts each week it is not always easy keeping up with all of them. A great way to find out the best posts of the week is to read a personal finance blogger’s weekly roundup. There were several good roundups this week that I thought you may find valuable as well.

Here are this week’s Personal Finance Roundups:

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Simple Personal Finance Weekend Roundup – Budgeting

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Do you want to live a simple financial lifestyle? If so having a budget is key to creating a simple financial lifestyle. But many times we fail to budget because _________ (you fill in the blank) excuse. This week’s edition of Simple Weekend Reading features some recent articles I have read that I believe can help you with budgeting so you can simplify your personal finances.

I don’t have time. Is your reason for not having a budget? Brian at My Next Bucks offers How To Build a Kick Ass Budget in 15 Minutes. I believe we all have at least 15 minutes we can spare to create a budget.

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The Power of 1 Can Simplify Your Personal Finances

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How can one number simplify your persona finances?  Yes it is true.  One number can help you simplify your personal finances.  This number will make things easier for you and will help you reduce your financial stress.  This number is not a large number.  You are probably thinking yes one very large number can help me simplify my personal finances.  If you read Would winning the lottery simplify your personal finances?, you will know that I do not believe having a large amount of money will simplify your finances.  Let me stop the suspense and tell you.  The number 1 can help you simplify your finances very easily.  Think about it if you only had:

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Simple Personal Financial Tips – What’s in your wallet?

If you lost your wallet or purse would you remember everything you had in it?  Miss placing your wallet or purse is a terrible feeling.  I know I would not remember every item in my wallet.   I do know I have carry a credit card or two as well as debit card and driver’s license.  But remembering what other cards are held in my wallet may take me some time to remember.  So why put myself through this stress of trying to remember everything.

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Simple Sunday Edition- Personal Finance Weekly Roundups

There are so many personal finance posts each week it is not always easy keeping up with all the post. A great way to find out the best post of the week is to read a personal finance blogger’s weekly roundup. There were several good roundups this week that I thought you may find valuable as well.

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Simple Weekend Roundup

This week’s edition of Simple Weekend Reading features some recent articles I have read that will help you simplify your personal finances.

Establishing a bill reminder system is key to simplifying your personal finances. Free from Broke explains how to establish one in Using Google Calendar To Pay Bills On Time

Must have a game plan to handle all aspects of your personal finances. Get Rich Slowly helps you with a job loss game plan in Got a Financial Game Plan.

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