Ready to do your taxes already? I haven’t seen any really good discounts from the Office Supply stores, even after rebate. With all these 1099s coming in, I took a look around for what discounts were available on the intertubes now.
When shopping for tax software, be sure to compare the total price if you have to complete a state tax returns, as that’s where they getcha these days. For reference, retail for TurboTax Deluxe Online for Federal is $ 49.95 with free eFile, while TurboTax Online State retails for $ 36.95 with eFile. Most places knock down the…
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I hope you “enjoyed” this past Spring Cleaning Week. Nothing in the list is particularly fun but they’re all very important and very valuable to your finances, so if hopefully you can enjoy the fruits of your labor later on down the road!
For this Your Take, I wanted to know your goals for 2011. They don’t have to be money related, they can be anything related. For me, my big goal for the year is to be better at the infuriating sport known as golf. I started playing seriously last year and dropped my average from around 110 to…
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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup! Today, we give you tips for living with less stuff, the things every frugal household should have, and the best time to ask for a raise.
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6 Easy Tips for Living with 100 Items or Less — Keep something only if you can find multiple ways to use it. There isn't much else you can do with a garlic press, but a coffee table can be a desk or a dining table in a jiffy. Stepcase Lifehack
10 Must-Have Items in a Frugal Household — Epsom salts is…
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We’re getting closer to April 15th. Today’s question of the day is about tax refunds:
Will you get a tax refund this year? If so, what do you typically do with the money? Do you save it or treat it like found money?
We haven’t gotten a refund in years. This year we will owe more than usual thanks to entirely losing the child tax credit. My numbers aren’t official but it looks like we’ll owe somewhere around $ 2,100.
It’s almost mind-numbing when you think about how much you pay in taxes each year. I bet for us, our…
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This guest post from Dustin Riechmann is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or failure. These stories feature folks from all levels of financial maturity and with all sorts of incomes. Dustin blogs about maintaining a happy marriage at Engaged Marriage and at Fit Marriage. Previously at GRS, Dustin wrote about strengthening your family on the journey to financial freedom.
“Can we go to the store today, Daddy?” my five-year-old son Braden asked recently. If you have young children,…
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When it comes to personal finance, we all know that we’re “supposed” to be reading blogs like Get Rich Slowly, The Simple Dollar, and Wise Bread…and you can probably think of a number of other personal finance blogs that are considered to be at the top of the heap. But there are also a number of other bloggers producing interesting financial content. Here are a few of the lesser known finance blogs to consider reading in 2011.
1. Enemy of Debt
Brad Chaffee offers a look at the realities of personal finance, especially as it relates to debt. This blog…
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In just the past few years, there has been an explosion of personal finance blogs, a niche that was vacant eight years ago. Those eight years feel like a generation or two, considering the way the Internet has changed since then. Now some might argue that the blog form is on its way out as the primary means of social communication online, with more efficient or sophisticated methods like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr taking charge. Nevertheless, what started out as a small niche community several years ago is now a thriving but noisy bazaar with more marketers and salespeople…
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In the 1993 comedy, Groundhog Day, actor Bill Murray plays Phil Connors, an egocentric Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, during a hated assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, finds himself repeating the same day over and over again.
Of course, that was just a movie (a funny one, at that)
That doesn't mean, however, that something like it couldn't happen in real life. In fact, as The Center for Public Integrity reveals in "Newsmaker Interview: Bailout Watchdog Warns of 'Doomsday Cycle,'" our country's approach to dealing with calamities like the one that first erupted in 2007 pretty…
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