Don’t Pay For College, Credit Card Consolidation @ The Roundup

The Simple Dollar covers some techniques to try when faced with a major life or financial decision. Look to both rational and objective approaches as well as to subjective and emotional responses to help you make your decisions.

Lazy Man and Money tells us why he hates Monster.com as he enters into a job search. The only one I’ve ever used was Dice.com, which in the past has yielded pretty good targeted results for me.

Money Smart Life suggests a list of financial resolutions you can tackle in the next year.

Money, Market and More Musings and I have the same take on debt — it’s a financial tool that can either hurt or help depending on how you decide to use it.

Gen X Finance tells us about a three letter abbreviation more vile than IRS: that would be AMT, which stands for the Alternative Minimum Tax.

The Sun’s Financial Diary goes through the interesting exercise of how to select mutual funds for an investment portfolio.

Five Cent Nickel has a reader who wonders what to do about overspending on a Flexible Spending Account (FSA). My problem has been the opposite — I underspend and end up losing what I put in the account, so I’ve personally opted out of using them till I get my act together on this matter.

Blueprint For Financial Prosperity consolidates some credit cards as part of his financial winter cleaning program.

Mighty Bargain Hunter brings up a radical thought: if you’re worried about paying for your children’s college education, then don’t do it. I told you it was radical! He shares some justifications for this argument.

No Credit Needed offers more thoughts on the subprime situation and the mortgage mess. When the go-go years in real estate were happening, I just had this feeling that the subsequent downtrend would be so much harder to bear.

Free Money Finance shares some good reasons to turn down a job offer. I particularly agree with the one that says “you get a strange vibe from your soon-to-be new boss.” I would listen to that inner voice: your intuition (or sixth sense) can be telling you something you should heed.

I’m picking up a great new financial book called 100 Minds That Made The Market, thanks to Cash Money Life’s recent giveaway! I’d like to thank him for the opportunity to participate: I never win anything so this was definitely a pleasant surprise.

Prosper has launched their Prosper Blog and we’re one of the blogs that is guest posting in the following week!

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1 Catherine December 9, 2007 at 10:18 am: Congrats on the win. I hope that you enjoy 100 Minds That Made The Market. I’m still trying to get through Ordinary People Extrodinary (sp?)Wealth
2 Patrick December 9, 2007 at 1:22 pm: The book went in the mail yesterday. I hope you enjoy it!
3 Yosemite Sam December 9, 2007 at 3:43 pm: “I’m a-headin’ for the last roundup…”
4 Lynnae @ beingfrugal.net December 9, 2007 at 5:13 pm: Thanks for the mention, and congrats on the win!
5 Silicon Valley Blogger December 10, 2007 at 1:03 am: Thanks again to Patrick for the contest. He really went all out with the prizes.
6 Steve February 16, 2008 at 7:49 am: Congrats on the win. ANd thanks for the contest. Hoping theres more like it.