Friday Finance Round Up is a weekly post that includes interesting articles and blog posts on money found during the week from across the web. 

This week’s articles include topics on financial checklists for parents, how to give when you don’t have extra money, letting contentment be a guiding principle for your finances, protecting your Facebook identity online and an extreme case of frugality – the guy who lives with no money. 

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Financial Checklist for New Parents – Bargaineering

As a Dad of two myself, the first few weeks of having a new child can be daunting.  This is a great list to help you remember the important financial things that should be done.

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Extreme Personal Finance: Daniel Suelo “The Man Without Money” - Get Rich Slowly

Talk about extreme!  This guy has been living without money since 2000.  Call it simplicity, genius or just plain nuts, you make the call. 

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No Extra Money to Give? Ways to Help Without Money – Out of Debt Christian

Many people say they don’t have any extra money to give away, but they don’t search out opportunities to give of their time, talent or other resources.  Alison offers up some great ideas to be generous in tough economic times. 

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Contentment: A Great Financial Principle – Personal Finance By the Book

Joe Plemon offers a great post by showing us that contentment in the Lord is a foundational principle to making wise money decisions.  Happiness is not derived from accumulating stuff, it’s found when we are content in the Lord.

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Protect Your Identity Online: Facebook a Social Hackers Dream – FiscalGeek

If you haven’t looked at your Facebook profile or settings lately, you may want to read this post and determine if you need to change some things. 

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Friday Finance Round Up is a weekly post that includes interesting articles and blog posts on money found during the week from across the web.

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Money: A Spiritual Check Up – Money Help For Christians

When we make decisions our choices have the potential to affect one of the following three parties in either a positive or negative way: God, Others, Self.

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An Introduction to Money Market Accounts – Get Rich Slowly

Since I touched on Money Market Accounts in my post Setting Up a Financial Safety Net – Three Tier Cash Reserve, I thought this would be a good follow up for more information. 

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Where the US Gets Its Oil – Money Energy

Thought this was an interesting post on the top five countries from which the US imports its oil.  #1 may surprise you!

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Your SSN Can Now Be Accurately Guessed Using Date and Place of Birth – Wise Bread

It seems that nothing is safe any more. And now your Social Security Number, the lynchpin to your credit score, taxes, government benefits and more, is under attack. It can be guessed, with a staggering degree of accuracy, using simple information you probably have on sites like Facebook and MySpace.

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Trapped With a Time Share – Thrive

 I seem to always run into people who wished they could get rid of their time shares.  Perhaps you can relate?

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