As I was editing the notorious 101 Centavos Dividend Portfolio that is featured on this site, it occurred to me that some of the dividend picks shared certain characteristics that would not be out of place wherever banjos are playing and teeth are few and far between. What do rednecks call duct tape? Chrome. Lot of blog posts in the personal finance arena devoted
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For tax year 2011, the IRS did something very interesting: they required payment settlement entities to file Form 1099-K for payment transactions. This includes PayPal accounts that received at least 200 transactions and $20,000 total during the calendar year. If you’re a blogger, the majority of payments are made via Paypal, so this adds a.
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Have you ever thought about investing in real estate? Would you try to flip your houses, or would you start creating a passive income by renting it out? Personally, I love the idea of investing in real estate and earning my passive income through rent money, but there is a good way to go about.
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Yesterday one of my facebook followers asked me a question about where you live and how that relates to your retirement savings. I’m going to answer his question and seven others because that’s what I do on Wednesdays. If you want me to answer your question next week, make sure to follow me on Facebook, …
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In response to elevated media interest and the release of the Annual Gasoline Price Outlook 2012 by Gas Buddy, Financially Consumed polled its own readers to gauge how high prices will rise this year. The 2012 Financially Consumed Gas Price Poll is closed and the results have been tallied. The poll was open for 5 days and recorded 51 responses. Poll Results:
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Frugality isn’t robbery, or at least being inconsiderate of others! As I mentioned in a previous articles, I’m starting to lose weight, trying to alter my lifestyle.  Part of my routine is eating two eggs in the morning for breakfast during the work week.  My morning stable has been two eggs.  I’ve actually always been Frugality Taken Too Far – The Great Egg Switcheroo

Starting last month I decided it was time to get a hold of my family’s expenditures, specifically, those expenditures which are more or less in the discretionary category.  With just two months of data, I don’t think I am going to start looking for trends just yet. Unlike my net worth posts, I am providing.
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It’s amazing, but mortgage interest rates keep dropping. If you are stuck with a higher rate, now is the time to refinance. The Home Affordable Refinance Program has been revamped to include more home owners and many more people should qualify for refinancing. I called around and see if we could refinance under this program and while we could, the numbers a
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The fight over the Keystone pipeline is still going on. Here’s an alternate proposal.

For those who don’t follow pipelines, or who don’t watch the news, the Keystone XL is a project sponsored by TransCanada (TRP) that would carry oil from the Alberta tar sands down to United States, specifically the terminus at Cushing, Oklahoma (not too far away from you
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I’ve discussed Envaulted just once before on this site, when my brother asked if he should sign up for a service that gives 1% cash back on all credit card purchases just for giving them access to your purchase information on certain credit cards. At the time, I said no because I thought there were.
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