Personal Finance Round Up
The following are some of my favorite posts from around the personal finance blogosphere this week. Make sure to check them out if you’re looking for some great reading material.
Money Q&A tries to educate people on a very important topic with Ten Ways To Break Your Texting and Driving Habit. Texting while driving is a serious problem these days and it is truly sad how many lives have been affected by it. Don’t do it and if you do make sure to check out their tips.
Frugal Rules writes about What They Hate About Self-Employment. It isn’t all puppies and kittens in when you’re working for yourself. That’s right… I said puppies and kittens!
Consumerism Commentary asks What’s Your Motivation for Saving? That is a question worth putting some thought into!
Free Money Finance wants to know How Are Your Taxes Prepared? I personally used (and reviewed) TurboTax! You can even enter to win a free federal filing with TurboTax Premier here.
Len Penzo let’s us into 9 Oops Moments He Ended Up Paying For… and I thought phone insurance was a scam! Turns out Len is the reason they offer it!
Mentions
The following is a weekly list of the blogs that have featured my posts and which posts they featured. Check out these bloggers and if you missed one of my posts that they featured I’ve linked to those as well.
Making Sense of Cents and Prairie Eco-Thrifter mentioned my post I’m a Victim of Credit Card Fraud… What Do I Do?
Carnivals
This week I was included in the following carnivals. Thanks to the following for hosting and including me.
Carnival of Money Pros, Lifestyle Carnival, The Money Mail Carnival and Yakezie Carnival included my post Why We Decided Against Buying a Beach Front Condo.
Have an awesome weekend!
Do you have any plans this weekend? Trying to catch up on something you’re behind on? Or are you going on a fun adventure?
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Thanks for the mention Lance. I like the puppies and kittens analogy, though I’ll not use it around the kids because it’ll just mean I’ll get hit up for a puppy.
We’re getting together with friends tonight for dinner and hopefully unplug from the computer for a while. Have a great weekend!
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Haha yes… if you have kids who want a pet I would advise against that… unless you want a pet too!
I don’t know about legislation in the US but it is illegal to use a mobile phone while driving in the UK unless you have a hands-free device (even then, recent research shows that hands-free is still dangerous). You can get points on your driving licence and eventually lose it. But that doesn’t seem to stop people from doing it. It is very dangerous!
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It is illegal in some states and not others. There is no federal or national law on the books about it.