Donating Bodily Fluids for Cash

The following is a guest post from Tina at Frugal Sisters. Tina found that while she was paying off debts, she wasn’t getting anywhere fast. She has gotten serious about her finances, and is working hard to pay off debt and make better choices. Hard Times and Desperate Measures People are having a harder time raising the money to pay [more...]

Date: 2008-12-29 14:29:18

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Best Of 2008 And Wishing You A Happy 2009

It’s hard to believe how fast time flies, but here we are already in 2009. Before we look forward, let’s reflect back on 2008 ... Network — This is actually a great collection of frugal ideas for your trips to various locales ... . The Correct Way to Pay Off Personal Debt: The Debt Avalanche at Consumerism Commentary — Step aside [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 15:09:51

Save to send Your Children to College

by Basdeo Paul Whether you went to college or not you probably will have big plans for your children ... towards paying off your debt. You can give up little things like trips to Starbucks or fast food ... of all of your debt. You need to know all of your balances, interest rates and minimum monthly payments. Now start [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 15:10:07

Save Yourself From Debt Drowning

Credit cards today is I think one of the most fast and easy ways to pay anything that is payable with it in this planet ... ? For your information, they specialize at professional debt negotiation and debt settlement. For over years already ... months! There are great benefits of this debt settlement service. Here are the following. Lower [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 04:30:14

a stimulus plan you’ll never see

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/instapund… If the Government wants to stimulate the economy, ... you have with fiscal stimulus. People will save some of the tax cuts, but people need to pay down debt too ... then why not just declare a payroll tax holiday immediately? It’s fast to turn on, fast to turn [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 14:16:16

Warning!

Potentially disturbing girly crap coming up. If you don’t wanna read it, then don’t. Please. That being said ... cash to pay off the bad, bad debt. So far I’ve managed to bring home a little under $200 in extra ... I thought something was, er, wrong with me. Fast-forward about 6 months, and I find out that nothing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:28:10

Cheap and Easy

Lately I've been bad at lunch. There are several scenarios that fall into this category ... the money for other priorities, like paying off debt, updating our home, going on a date ... that cry straight to the drive-thru line at some McNasty fast food chain. A whopping $6 bucks [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 01:18:00

Fast Cash

Many people nowadays, especially because its the holidays, find themselves strapped for cash. My friend John had to take payday loans in order to pay off his debts. What he did ... track of his payable and its charging lesser interest rates than the bank. Anyway, loans or fast cash [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 08:07:39

Think bums are poor? They’re actually richer than you!

Donald Trump and his daughter, Ivanka, were driving one-day and on the corner of a street they spotted a bum ... you spend your money: Pay off your debt – list out every penny you owe and the interest rate next ... millionaires pick up change off of the ground. You’ll be amazed how fast all of those pennies add [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 03:38:37

Do it yourself Credit Repair

by Rob Kosberg You have reached the point in your life that you realize that you need to make some drastic changes in how you manage your spending ... , pay as much more than minimum as you can. Pay the minimum on the others. When the first is paid off, start applying that same amount to the next debt in line. It won’t be a fast process. To immerse [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:40:40

New Life Church, 2 Years After Haggard; 1 Year After Shootings, is Thriving

It's been a rough couple years for New Life Church in Colorado Springs ... to pay off a million dollars in debt, spend half a mill on improvements and donate $2 million ... were looking bleak for this mega-church congregation. Fast forward to today, and you'll find [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 14:41:12

Individuals With Too Much Debt Can Receive Monetary Assistance From Federal Grants – Available Now!

Owning a home is a great responsibility and equally a huge reward. Many people who move from an apartment into their own home cite it as one of the most enjoyable experiences of their lives. Home ownership is a very long commitment to a mortgage and that responsibility doesn’t go away just because other circumstances may change. In a financially challenged economy, many homeowners find themselves facing hardships when it comes to keeping their house payments up to date. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:16:01

Sample Situations Where a Personal Loan Can Help You

by Jake Robinson Chances are that some sort of financial difficulty will come to all of us. It may not be today or tomorrow, but at some point every is hit with those rainy days our parents always talked about. It’s during these times that more people could make good use of quick personal loans to help get out of some of the problems they’re facing. A quick personal for the most part requires no collateral, has fast easy approval, and has lenient credit requirements. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 19:41:04

Steeper By The Dozen: What’s Your Raashee

It has been a longish break from blogging, one spent mostly in conducting dramatics workshops and then putting up a play with the freshers in my college who took part in said workshops. One and a half months, and an hour-long version of “A Christmas Carol” later, here I am. In one of the genuinely funny moments in Ashutosh Gowariker’s “What’s Your Raashee?” , an uber-Gujarati couple speak painfully broken English in order to impress their prospective son-in-law and his uncle. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 12:26:01

They Call This Season ‘Fall’ for a Reason

Photo: Matthew Bradley / flickr So now it turns out that the whole Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) was a flop or more likely a scam. Remember Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson telling us last September that credit markets had locked up, and then, after half of the $750 billion that he extorted out of Congress was handed out to Wall Street firms, new President Barack Obama justifying the spending of the second half of the money because we needed to “get the banks lending again”? [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:27:36

They Call This Season ‘Fall’ for a Reason

Photo: Matthew Bradley / flickr So now it turns out that the whole Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) was a flop or more likely a scam. Remember Bush Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson telling us last September that credit markets had locked up, and then, after half of the $750 billion that he extorted out of Congress was handed out to Wall Street firms, new President Barack Obama justifying the spending of the second half of the money because we needed to “get the banks lending again”? [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 16:27:36

Get Useful Information about Payday Loans

The increased fastness of living makes us react and make decisions quickly. This refers to various situations that involve spending money as well. As a rule, we have no time to wait for our next salary, if we incur important unexpected expenditures. That is why we should always have some additional free cash. Unfortunately, not everyone is lucky to have savings. And in this case pay day loans are a perfect solution for those, who urgently need cash. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 21:51:48

Big Merger Deals Signal Restored Confidence

After a period of hibernation, corporate mergers and acquisitions are back on the agenda, Andrew Ross Sorkin writes in his latest DealBook column. While the price tags may not be hitting the highs they did during the boom times, the return of bigger M.&A. deals signals an increasing confidence among chief executives, who until now have been hesitant to ink any deals, Mr. Sorkin says. One segment that has not jumped back into the deal-making fray, however, is the private equity industry. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 10:15:53

Words from the (investment) wise 9.27.09

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009) After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 12:05:27

Where has the Bailout Money Gone? Good Billions After Bad

Where has the Bailout Money Gone? Good Billions After Bad Vanity Fair by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele As the Bush administration waned, the Treasury shoveled more than a quarter of a trillion dollars in tarp funds into the financial system—without restrictions, accountability, or even common sense. The authors reveal how much of it ended up in the wrong hands, doing the opposite of what was needed. Just inside the entrance to the U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-28 06:17:36

Words from the (Investment) Wise (Sept. 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 14:33:29

ScamBuste 286

NOTIFICATION OF PAYMENT VIA ATM CARD This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract/inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract payment. Secondly, you are hereby advised to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 08:54:51

Concepts in Frugality: Know What You Want

Today’s post is the first in an occasional series called ‘Concepts in Frugality’. I’m not an expert on frugality, for a myriad of reasons. My family can’t survive on one income, we don’t save enough money, we have too much debt, and it’ ... less so than the United States, but catching up fast. And I think that it’s hard to be immune [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 23:46:07

Fast Student Loans Master Key- Pointers to Reveal the Good Colleges

Fast Student Loans Master Key- Pointers to Reveal the Good Colleges by Andrea SouthIf you are requiring bad credit student loans, you have fought with ruined finances in the past, or have not had time to get a great credit rating. Both of these aspects contribute to what is known as bad credit history, and acquiring student finances under both of those categories can be difficult at best.There are a few methods you can utilize to make bad credit student loans possible to gain. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 17:21:06

Five Easy Tips to Using a Budget to Pay Off Debt Fast

by Sean Payne If you’re in debt up to your ears, you may not understand the reason why. It’s common for people who are in debt to not fully comprehend exactly what got them into the situation that they are in. But, as someone who has been in debt and known many other people who have been in debt, I can almost guarantee you that I know the reason why you’re in debt. You’re in debt because you don’t budget. You either don’t have one, or you don’t use it. It’s as simple as that. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 18:56:35

Reinventing America

America faces serious challenges to maintain its storied status quo. Hurdles include a sinking economy, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the rising cost of education, global warming, a crumbling infrastructure and American workers with uncertain futures. Trendwatchers are more acutely aware of these issues than most, but they’re also more hopeful [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:40:59

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48

Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (September 21 – 27, 2009)

After hitting its best levels of the year on Wednesday ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) communiqué, the S&P 500 Index ran into heavy weather on the realization that the Fed could start scaling back on emergency support of the economy. US equities dropped further later in the week on renewed concerns about the state of the troubled housing market and weaker-than-expected durable goods orders. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 07:51:48

T3Leads - CPA Network Review

In the ‘make money online’ realm, there are literally hundreds of ways to do so, whether it be through blogging, e-commerce, affiliate marketing, ... ? T3Leads currently deals mostly with the following types of companies: debt settlement, credit cards, home improvement, insurance, tax debt, mortgage loands, payday loans, auto loans, and foreclosure. [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 09:00:42

A Mortgage Calculator Can Save You Money by Calculating Overall Mortgage Cost

As soon as it comes to mortgages, there are several fees that are charged that it is at times very confusing and tough to be familiar with what your monthly payments and overall mortgage cost will be. A mortgage calculator can save you lots of money. Although you by now have a mortgage, you would like to determine how fast you could pay off your mortgage if you raise your payments to a certain amount or the amount you will need to pay every month to pay off your mortgage within certain fix time. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 18:16:05

An Interesting Perspective On The Chelsea X Adrian Mutu Fine

After being ordered to pay 14.7 Million Pound back to former club Chelsea over his Cocaine Scandal in 2004 by the Court of Arbitration of Sport in late July, Romanian International and Fiorentina forward Adrian Mutu has been nowhere near the player that scored 53 goals in 89 Serie A appearances.Via GuardianIt has been an horrendous few weeks for Mutu, the former Chelsea player who has been fighting his old club in the courts for five years. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 22:37:47

The Seven Habits to Financial Success… Part 3

If you’ve been following along in this series of posts, you know that I took the Franklin Covey class, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People, ... . As we all know, planning is pretty important when it comes to our finances. Trying to work our way out of debt doesn’ ... together for how we’d like to get out of debt or how we’d like to save for retirement, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 14:21:05

Inspired by People Accomplishing Personal Victories

Without a doubt one of my favorite parts of participating in the personal finance blog arena is reading the great stories of people that have awakened to the lunacy of carrying lots of debt and have changed their habits to grab hold ... sending him a note sincerely congratulating him when he paid off his last debt. I really felt happy [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 13:00:25

Credit Repair Can Make Your Life Stress Free

by Dina Salinas Having bad credit can be a nightmare for most, because we live in a world that is fast-paced, costly, and always requires credit. It goes without saying, credit repair can make your life simpler if you’ve had some problems with your credit. The manner in which you use the available credit at your disposal is plain for creditors to see when they check your credit score. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-27 18:18:14

Bretton Woods II - let’s remember the last time

Click here to view the embedded video. In last month’s New Atlantic, James Fallows had a fascinating interview with Gao Xiqing, ... s new banking overlords - thinks Americans need to learn some humility and fast. “The simple truth ... up holding so much Western debt. Gao’s comments on the dollar are somewhat contradictory (and reflect [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 19:46:43

Gates of Vienna News Feed 1/5/2009

Read through the official European reactions to Israel’s ground offensive into Gaza: Zapatero, the Vatican, the Italian government — all are pressuring Israel for a ceasefire. The surprise is Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende, who states that it would be pointless to condemn Israel without addressing what Hamas is doing [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 04:54:00

DrumBeat: December 28, 2008

With gas falling, trucks come back NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- After nearly a year of flagging sales, low gas prices and fat incentives are reigniting America's taste for big vehicles. Trucks and SUVs will outsell cars in December, according to researchers at the automotive Website Edmunds.com, something that hasn't happened since February [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:31:34

Credit Crisis Sequel, Global Bank Bailout, Emerging Markets Still a Buy?, Gas Wars and More!

by Addison Wiggin & Ian Mathias Ghosts of the fourth quarter haunt global financials… so begins the second act of the credit saga Even the IMF needs a loan… $150 billion to back up struggling emerging markets Not so fast, says Mayer… emerging markets will remain drivers of global growth Jim Nelson with an industry likely to boom [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 07:36:46

Investors May Be Too Optimistic About Consumer Recovery

The most accurate banking analyst, Meredith Whitney, has warned that banks are likely to continue to restrict consumer credit, ... , are implemented. Credit card issuers shifted their model away from one where they earned ... , the somewhat in debt and the chronically indebted. Indeed, in the stone ages of the 1980s, banks were really [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 06:10:36

Credit Repair Can Make Your Life Simpler

by Dina Salinas Having bad credit can be a nightmare for most, because we live in a world that is fast-paced, costly, and always requires credit. It goes without saying, credit repair can make your life simpler if you’ve had some problems with your credit. The manner in which you use the available credit at your disposal is plain for creditors to see when they check your credit score. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 12:54:46

Re-coupled Vengence: From Downturn to Implosion Risks ?

We've spent a bunch of time on the US economic outlook and the news, as you'd expect, continues to move from bad to worse ... the shallowness of the analysts involved grasp. But that's no longer the problem. Accelerating worldwide ... for the European schadenfreude that this was "just" a US problem. Developing Countries They also issued [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 21:20:15

Devise your own Credit Repair Plan

by Rob Kosberg You found yourself in a very bad financial situation. You may feel emotional, hopeless, guilty or all of them ... habits. It doesn’t mean a “debt consolidation,” program or a home equity loan .The word is PLAN. You will start by collecting all your credit reports, bill payment statements, and credit card [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 23:53:58

This Can't Really Be the Economy

I'm not an economist. I've never studied economics, beyond reading The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economics about a year ago ... -Paul" principle, as money from new investors is used to pay off earlier investors until the whole ... that people not only sell debt, but chop it up into little pieces, mix those pieces [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 16:38:19

Posts about ACORN as of September 28, 2009

Massive Voter Fraud In NY linked to ACORN - electionjournal.org 09/29/2009 The Working Families Party and local Democratic Party Officials are at the center of a massive voter fraud scandal in Troy, NY. According to the Times Union : Dozens of forged and fraudulent absentee ballots from people registered to vote on the Working Families Party line were filed in the Sept. 15 primary elections in Troy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-29 05:45:28

Just Screwing Around

My “2-3 day presemester project” is to understand Fox’s Free Differential Calculus better; I’d like to use these ideas to calculate something analogous to the Alexander Polynomial for a non-compact knot. This has been done (in some cases) by Brody (On Infinitely Generate Modules) for wild compact knots [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 22:38:27

Do NOT Shred it and Forget it!

Public relations people often pitch products to bloggers like me. Most PR pitches tout harmless products, which I ignore. Until now. Today a PR company sent me a ridiculous and financially harmful message. These PR people want you to shred your unpaid credit card statements to ignore creditors, to hide consumer debt [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 08:05:49

Battle of the Titans

For those of you that prepare yourselves, the OPPORTUNITIES will be abundant and limitless; for those that don't it could be a very difficult period ... as they BELIEVE they have the ability to print money and create credit out of thin air endlessly. In reality ... to print wealth through monetary and asset inflation for decades. The first law the G7 is [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 00:00:37

DrumBeat: December 18, 2008

Oil drops 9 pct as demand outlook overshadows OPEC NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. crude prices dropped more than 9 percent to $36 a barrel Thursday as slumping demand and swelling U.S. inventories offset OPEC's record supply cut agreement. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries on Wednesday agreed to cut output by 2 [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 13:42:11

Wednesday wrap

Reid, Pelosi Would Force Unions Down Workers' Throats ... A quick look at the case of the United Auto Workers union is all that is necessary to see the damage that has been done to American industry through greedy union hegemony. As they threatened Congress with the collapse of an industry, they refused to part with their own money-losing, [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 11:30:00

Asking For financial Help Is Not As Difficult As It Seems

by Steve Collins If you are like a lot of people these days, you may be overextended in your monthly budget ... latte or deciding to hold off on buying that new sofa until you can pay cash for it. Financial ... matters, it is occasionally difficult to admit your mistakes and even harder to own up that you need help [more...]

Date: 2009-01-15 20:37:08

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