Pimp Your Finances

Hello – I hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day!  Here are this week’s links.
DDFD at Divorced Dad Frugal Dad has some great thoughts on Dreams, Hopes, and Ambitions.  In it, he asks, and attempts to answer: “What holds us back?”  It’s a good post on inspiration and motivation.
Jeff at The Stretchy Dollar asks, [...]

Well, tax time is here.  I’ve actually been looking forward to it for a long time – I get my money back from Uncle Sam!  I already know what I’m going to spend it on: paying off debt.  My goal is to put every penny of my return towards my credit card debt.
Here are this [...]

I wonder what the groundhog will see tomorrow…six more months of recession, or is the time for economic growth finally here?
Either way, the best thing to do is improve your own situation.  Here are some links to do it.
Mike at The Oblivious Investor writes about his 30 Year Market Prediction.  Bottom line?  “It hasn’t looked [...]

Another week gone by.  Time goes quickly when you’re busy.  Here are this week’s links.
NCN at No Credit Needed explains 5 debt reduction methods.  It’s interesting to read about something other than the standard two approaches of paying off the smallest debt or highest interest debts first.
DDFD at Divorced Dad Frugal Dad explains how defensive entrepreneurism can [...]

 I hope you’re staying warm this week.  Here are the links:
 
David at MoneyNing has a good article on the Two Things That Matter when it comes to wealth: increasing your income and decreasing your spending.  There are no secret formulas or magic rules.
MyWifeQuitHerJob.com has a good post on Dealing with People Who Doubt Your Business Ideas.  I [...]

Andrea at Creating Momentum has a post about preparing to leave her job and enter the world of self employment.  Very inspiring.  I’d be too scared to do that, but I’m jealous of her for it.
Free Money Finance is running a March Madness tournament for personal finance bloggers.  It’s a very cool concept.  64 blog posts go [...]

Hope you enjoyed the holidays, and are enjoying the college bowl season.  Here are this week’s links.
Mike at Oblivious Investor ponders When to Panic and Stop Investing in Stocks, then decides that such a time doesn’t exist.
Josh at The Reformed Broker has some great advice on Rolling Over a 401K to an IRA.  If you’ve [...]

I hope you’re having a great holiday season!  I’ll have a post later this week letting you know what I did with my Christmas.  Now, on to the links!
JLP at All Financial Matters has an article about how the stock market has capitulated, meaning that things are finally so bad that they’re a bargain.  If [...]