Here’s a rundown of recent carnivals that FiveCentNickel has participated in, along with links to my posts that were included in each…
The Carnival of Personal Finance, which is up at FreeMoneyFinance, features the first in a series of post on tax breaks not to miss. Also featured is a post that describes our allowance system [...]

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A recent comment on one of my older posts on setting an allowance led me to LittleMoneyBags, which is an online allowance accounting system. Kind of a neat idea, although I’m not sure that it’s something that we would actually make use of.

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Twenty days after initiating the process of opening an HSBC Direct online savings account, I believe that we have officially reached the end of the line… We just received a letter containing our account number as well as the HSBC Direct ABA routing number (022000020). As it turns out, this wasn’t all that necessary, as [...]

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While I’ve been somewhat critical of Dave Ramsey and his “Debt Snowball” in the past, he’s definitely helped an awful lot of people get their finances in order. Thus, I thought that it might be worth spending a bit of time talking about Dave’s “Baby Steps” for getting out of debt and improving your finances. [...]

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Well, I finally got around to doing our taxes this past weekend. I’ve been using TurboTax for quite awhile now, and this year was no exception. All in all, it took me just over an hour to get through everything, largely due to the fact that I’d already spent some time collecting up the necessary [...]

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I’m curious to learn more about how all of you think about money, so I thought that I would start running a series of ‘Money Polls‘ on various topics… First up: Budgeting. But before I ask you guys whether or not you make (and stick to!) a budget, I thought I’d say a few words [...]

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The MoneyBlogNetwork was highlighted in Erika Smith’s Techno File column in today’s Indianapolis Star. Thanks for the mention Erika! We’re pleased to have been included.

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Here’s a quick look at some of this week’s top personal finance articles from the MoneyBlogNetwork and beyond…

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Not long ago I wrote about trading in your damaged (or laundered) stamps. As a followup to that post, I thought I’d talk about trading in damaged currency… As it turns out, “any badly soiled, dirty, defaced, disintegrated, limp, torn, or worn out currency note that is CLEARLY MORE than one-half of the original note [...]

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According to an article that a reader pointed out in the comments to my earlier post on using CoinStar for free, CoinStar coin-counting machines aren’t necessarily accurate, but at least they’re not biased… Based on a survey of five different machines at five different locations, the machines were spot on three times, overcounted by a [...]

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