My Blog, Your Money

With the rise of the World Wide Web, there are now more resources than ever at your fingertips to help save you some money. Say you’re in the market for a camera. In pre-WWW days, if you wanted a deal, you’d have to scour store ads and look out for sales. Now, all you have […]

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I just read an interesting article in the NY Times about mood and how it affects spending. The new research found that people feeling sad and introspective tend to spend more than those in a “neutral emotional state”. Here’s a link to the actual paper (in PDF format) which is entitled “Misery is not Miserly: […]

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We’re well into 2008 now and the holiday season has come and gone. Aside from holiday weight and broken resolutions, another likely holdover is the gift card. A few years ago, gift cards were not universally received as great gifts. How times have changed. The stigma that gift cards lack thought […]

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When it comes to investing, it’s important to understand the concept of risk. According to Merriam and Webster, risk is defined as: “possibility of loss or injury.” With words such as injury and loss, it’s easy to see why many people are afraid of risk and thus are reluctant to begin investing. […]

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