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Saturday Link Roundup

I finally managed to find some time this week to properly peruse the Carnival of Personal Finance and the Festival of Frugality, so here are some highlights from both of those wonderful collaborations.

Adjust Your Tax Withholding
Millionaire Bag Lady
Frenzy for cheap stuff is the iconic image of this recession
How to avoid a layoff and how to [...]

What’s your shopping vice?

Yesterday, I attempting to reorganize my desk at work and was browsing through the office supply catalog.  Office supplies are my downfall.  I love fancy pens and pencils and desk accessories and all sorts of things.  I have to be very careful when I go into an office supply store, especially if it’s a fancy [...]

It’s like my friends want to be Billy Mays

Lately, all my friends have been really talking up Netflix.  Of course, the more they talk, the more I find myself drawn to Netflix.  I can have movies mailed to me and not have to worry about return dates?  This sounds great!

Except when was the last time I rented a movie?  While in law school, [...]

“Get rid of healthcare!”

I was talking to my 87-year-old grandfather about the economy the other day.  He’s got one of those great stories - fought in WWII, came home, married his sweetheart, started working at a local company, never quit.  He still works there half-days, just to give him something to do.

He and my grandmother have always lived fairly frugally.  [...]

It Is Done

Well, I did it.  I set up my automatic contributions to my Roth IRA for 2009.  I set it to max out the contribution by using monthly investments.  

I’ve been putting it off because the market has been so tough to watch.  It’s hard to look at how much my investment has lost and still [...]