Heard through the grapevine: Mint.com has just partnered with Motley Fool to provide you with great personal finance content through the Mint blog. I’d like to encourage you to check out Mint, as it is a Web 2.0 personal finance tool that’s already garnered a lot of attention since its launch. Only a little more than 6 months into public beta, Mint has already signed up more than 200,000 users and is steadily gaining more fans. If you want a convenient online solution to your money management, expense tracking and budget monitoring requirements, you can check out Mint’s cool personal finance web service here.

And as far as great content goes, you can also check out these reads!

Personal Finance Reads

  • The Simple Dollar: We’ve always used disposable diapers for our kids, deciding to pay for convenience. It still pains me to think how our decision was not the environmental friendly way to go. Maybe we should’ve tried an experiment with cloth diapers, like what Trent’s been doing.

  • Lazy Man and Money: I never really considered a cruise as a frugal vacation, but apparently it can very well be considered one!

  • Money Smart Life: How has the falling US dollar been treating you? Here are Ben’s personal thoughts about foreign exchange rates and international travel.

  • Gen X Finance: The tax filing deadline is fast approaching! Find out when to get your tax returns and payments postmarked!

  • The Sun’s Financial Diary: More stock portfolio changes going on over at Sun’s blog. He’s supplementing his investment list with more shares. I wish I had the time to give my own portfolio the same kind of attention!

  • Mighty Bargain Hunter: Yes, I admit I can get distracted when doing work online. That’s because the computer simultaneously offers us both work and pleasurable opportunities. Focus is key even when you’re working online.

  • No Credit Needed: Go from just surviving the chore of paying your bills to actually thriving and managing your money with these steps.

  • Blueprint For Financial Prosperity: One thing I enjoy from Jim are all his personal finance “analogies”. Here is another one: did you know you can find some personal finance lessons from NASCAR?

  • Free Money Finance: If you’ve got a wedding in your future, you may want to control your costs and perhaps funnel the savings towards your retirement funds. FMF makes a great argument for doing just that.

  • Five Cent Nickel: What do you do in case your personal data gets compromised or stolen? Be proactive and check out these suggestions.

  • Million Dollar Journey: Frugal Trader writes a review on the book: Every Family’s Business. The book tackles the main issues of family business succession and wealth transfer across generations.

  • My Dollar Plan: Madison is rearranging her finances to accommodate her plans to refinance her home. I could only gawk at her credit card arbitrage figures!

  • Brip Blap: Why do we fail? There are many reasons, one of which is just poor self-discipline. When you’re highly motivated, focused and disciplined, your risk of failure is so much more limited, maybe even to the point of nil (unless you’ve got bad luck).

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