Great Reads From This Week
- The Sun’s Financial Diary: How well are you saving? The Nest Egg Index can tell you how well you stack up against the rest of the nation.
- Lazy Man And Money: If you’re making more from compounding interest than you are from your retirement contributions, you’ve reached the crossover point. I think I should be there already based on this guideline, but I’ll need to confirm that.
- Money Smart Life: I’m getting a great education on sales tactics through Ben’s new series. Don’t miss out on this one or you’ll be sorry!
- Gen X Finance: If you’re shopping for mutual funds, here’s something particularly helpful: a lovely visual guide and walkthrough of the Morningstar Mutual Fund Comparison Tool.
- Money, Matter and More Musings: A nice look into a new investor’s progress, where he discusses his portfolio, mistakes and future goals.
- Mighty Bargain Hunter: Small windfalls are easy to blow since they may appear insignificant but why not consider these alternative places to apply them instead?
- Five Cent Nickel: Nickel covers a reader question about using IRA funds to pay off student loans.
- Blueprint For Financial Prosperity: Before you start charging, you may be interested to read about some unfamiliar secrets that credit cards harbor.
- Free Money Finance: FMF has a credit card deals you may be interested in.
- No Credit Needed: My money flows in a very similar fashion to how it’s described in this flowchart. Except maybe you can include an additional box for “business” where cash enters for the moment. Hopefully one day, there’ll be cash out of the business as well!
- The World Of Wealth: The thoughts of a single, young office worker at her new job, starting with how to work with the office culture at the new job.
Other Blog Mentions
And a shout out to Damien Riley from Riley Central, for continuing to ping and tag me with ongoing memes 
. I’ll attempt to respond to these memes once I get a chance (I can only try though). Riley’s latest post unfortunately sounds like he’s riled up for good reason.
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Great Stuff Digerati! Thanks for the mention and link to my “protest” article. Around these parts it’s a BIG DEAL!!!
No worries, no hurries . . . I need to get over here more as well and get help with my finances!
Damien