Simple Weekend Roundup – Keep it Simple Edition

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

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Simplify your Mortgage Refinance with these Seven Questions

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With interest rates at their lowest in decades many of us are considering refinancing our mortgages.

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Simple Sunday Roundup – The Open Edition

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Here are posts I have read this week that I believe can help you simplify your personal finances.

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Financially Prepare your Spouse in order to Simplify

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Simplify your personal finances by making sure your spouse or loved ones have an understanding of your financial picture. In many households the husband or the wife is the sole chief financial officer in the household. This means that the chosen individual handles all or the majority of the family financial matters without the much involvement from other spouse. This can cause financial stress if the CFO of the household becomes ill and unable to manage the household finances or even worse passes away. This leaves the other spouse the non-CFO trying to figure out what is going on and is left to manage the finances of the household. This can be very challenging task especially for someone who has never managed the finances before and all of a sudden is forced into that role. To lessen the burden on your spouse and loved ones who must now manage the family finances here are some tips to help simplify your finances:

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Simple Sunday Financial Blogger’s Round Up – World Cup Finals Edition

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This week’s edition of Simple Sunday features some recent articles I have read that will help you simplify your personal finances. Here are some of the best from this week:

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Simple Personal Financial Tip: Are you hurricane ready?

For those of us who live along the Atlantic and Gulf Coast we are now almost a month into hurricane season have you prepared yourself? You still have time to prepare.  In my post, Simple Financial Tips – Disaster Plan I discuss ways to help you prepare for a disaster to help simplify your finances. 
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Simple Sunday Financial Blogger’s Roundup – Winter Olympics Edition

After celebrating a Saints Super Bowl victory and Mardi Gras, I think its now time to get back to work. Its been a great celebration. Let’s start with my Sunday Roundup.

Sunday Roundup offers links to this week’s personal finance blogger’s roundups. Its great way to find the best personal finance posts of the week. There were several good roundups this week that I thought you may find valuable.

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Simple Sunday Financial Blogger’s Roundup – Super Bowl Edition

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This week’s simple financial tip was knowing your credit score. It discussed how having a high credit score can help you simplify your personal finances. Here are some additional articles from this week that I believe can help you simplify your personal finances so you can live a simple financial lifestyle.

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Keys to Win Your Personal Financial Super Bowl

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The Super Bowl will be played in a few hours when my hometown Saints will face the Colts. To prepare for this big day each team has put in hours of preparation time so they can execute their game plan to win the game.  The Saints have designed a defensive game plan to stop the Colts and Peyton Manning from scoring while the Colts have designed a defensive game plan to stop the Saints and Drew Brees ( I hoping the Colts game plan does not work). Just like each Super Bowl team has designed their offensive and defensive game plans to win the Super Bowl. You should design your own personal financial game plan to help you simplify your personal finances so you can win the personal finance game.

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Simple Personal Financial Tip: Know your Score

Know the score. I am not talking about knowing the score of the sporting event you maybe watching. I talking about knowing your credit score. Knowing your score is important part of simplifying your personal finances. Having a high score will usually help you win the game depending on the sport you are playing. Having a high credit score will also help you win personal financial game and helps you simplify your personal finances.

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