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The BeancounterBlog Wish Fund: Your Ideas

It’s often argued among personal finance bloggers whether or not you should post your net worth on your blog. Some believe it gives you some sort of “street cred” and allows readers to know that you practice what you preach. Others believe that sort of information is a little too sensitive for everyone […]

Key Bank’s Free iPod Promotion: The Last Chapter

Can you guess what I’m listening to right now?
If you couldn’t guess from the title to this post, I finally received my free iPod Nano from Key Bank!
I initially wrote about the promotion here, and months later wrote about my frustrations at having never received the iPod. After several phone […]

Open Up a KeyBank Account - Get a Free iPod Nano

I’m usually not one for the sign-up gimmikry (is that a word) that others are. Most of the time it’s just not worth the time to jump through all the hoops to actually get your reward. But when I found out about KeyBank’s offer of a free iPod nano… I couldn’t resist.
So […]

Experiment in Budgeting - Part 2

As you may recall, I posted about a new online budgeting tool that uses the envelope system. The envelope system, if you recall, is a cash-based budgeting system that consists of creating literal envelopes in which you place the cash you have budgeted for the month. That way, each time you pull out $10 […]

An Experiment in Budgeting

My wife and I are pretty good at creating and following a budget; however, we’re always up for trying new methods. And this week a new (FREE!) online personal budgeting site was announced - MySpendingPlan.com. The site is described as:
A new website for people and groups who are looking for powerful, collaborative, and free software […]