Social Media

How Social Media Can Save Your Finances

Personal Finance
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Recently we wrote about how social media can ruin your finances.  But, what about the flip side?.  Can we use social media for financial help?  Can it really help us save money, become more frugal, and help us be more successful with our finances?  There are plenty of ways that we can use social media to help [...]

How Social Media Can Ruin Your Finances

Personal Finance
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Social media is all the rage for spending time online these days.  Facebook has over 500 million users and Twitter’s micro blogging service is maintaining their hot trend. If you are not using one of these services you are now in the minority.  These social media services seem to be running our lives, which isn’t a bad thing [...]

This Week in Personal Finance – February 5, 2010

Miscellaneous

We finally got our internet hooked up at our house this week!  It’ll be good to get back to a regular posting schedule next week. I’m excited for this weekend because I get to teach a class to a Young Marrieds group at church on Money.  I’ll try to post some of the content from [...]

Friday Finance Round Up – September 4, 2009

Round Ups

This week’s Round Up takes a look at whether government redistribution of wealth is right, spending filters to help you save money, quitting social media, a creative video on health care reform and wait times (using Legos!) and a cool financial health calculator.

Friday Finance Round Up – August 28, 2009

Round Ups

This week’s Round Up features posts discussing the average retirement savings by age, ruining Facebook friendships, States with the most underwater mortgages, the final numbers on Cash for Clunkers and a price comparison of 10 sandwiches.