It is looking like the upcoming holiday season will be gloomy for many families, given the current state of the economy and continued bad news on many financial fronts. While this may not be a time to go all out with gifts, there are holiday shopping techniques that you can use to save money without [...]

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Continue reading → Holiday Shopping Techniques To Avoid Breaking the Bank

Paying $1.84 for gas today reminded me that I wanted to revisit my analysis of Chrysler’s Let’s Refuel America Program and MyGallons.com.
Back in May, I discussed why Chrysler’s program was such a bad deal.  As a reminder, the program allowed participants to lock in the ultra low price of $2.99 per gallon for three years.  [...]

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Continue reading → Prepaying for Gasoline

Can a book about lowering your financial expectations be any good? We were intrigued by the premise of this book and decided to give it a try. It was a bit surprising in some places, and a little disappointing in others, but overall it was a very interesting read that we found to be thought [...]

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Continue reading → Book Review: You Don’t Have to Be Rich By Jean Chatzky

As Hurricane Ike took aim for the Gulf Coast, the financial markets reacted much in the way that they were expected to. Gas prices jumped to $5 a gallon along the gulf coast, and many expected the price jump to go nationwide, particularly if the hurricane caused damage to any offshore oil rigs. Since the [...]

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If you follow the news, chances are the state of the economy may have you a little concerned. Bad news is rampant, the housing market is shaky and doom appears to be around every corner. While there are some definite problems with the economy right now, that doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to start [...]

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Continue reading → Should You Be Worried About the Economy?

Every day, the news about the economy seems to be getting worse and people across the world are concerned that they will be personally affected by the changes. In many cases, they already are when you consider how the cost of living has gone up, gas prices that seem to have no ceiling and continued [...]

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Continue reading → Staying Solvent in Bad Economic Times

Millions of Americans have found out this year that they are in dire financial straits and this came as a shock to most. Whether it’s a new variable rate on a mortgage, higher gas prices or just the higher cost of living, many of us are not as financially secure as we would like to [...]

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Continue reading → 6 Steps to Get Back on the Right Financial Track

Turn on the television, read a paper or go online and chances are you’ll be bombarded with bad news about the state of the economy. Inflation is being whispered about, and in some cases, shouted about from the rooftops. Are we really facing inflation and how bad will it get? How can you find ways [...]

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Continue reading → How to Survive Inflation

A few months ago my neighbor and his dad came over to talk to me for a few minutes. They told me about a great new product to help improve gas mileage. They showed me a small 2-oz. bottle of a product called EnviroMax Plus, which I thought was a sample for me [...]

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One of the main problems facing Americans today is a lack of cash flow. As the economy gets worse and gas prices go up, it is getting harder to make ends meet. If you are completely reliant on your paycheck each month, the last few days or weeks of the month may be getting pretty [...]

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Continue reading → How to Keep Cash Flow Coming In

Right now, it has never been more important to manage your bills and get your finances under control. The economy is going through a particularly rough patch, food and gas prices are going up and it can be pretty hard to make your paycheck stretch each month. If you’re finding it difficult to keep up, [...]

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Continue reading → Managing Your Bills in Today’s Economy

I believe that Bush’s proposal to drill offshore is almost as bad as his proposal to increase ethanol content in gasoline. I see two major problems with his proposal:

It will not help in the short run
In the short term, gas prices will remain high. It takes time and tremendous capital investment to get [...]

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Continue reading → Why Drilling Offshore is a Bad Idea

Sunday Money Madness is your guide to the rest of the blogosphere on personal finance.

Need to Get Rid of Some of Your Junk? Don’t Underestimate the Power of Free by Generation X Finance brings up an important issue. Is your time worth more than the [...]

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I might not have mentioned it, but I’m in Los Angeles this week, staying at a swanky hotel called The Omni. (I’ll tell you more about it after my stay, but it’s essentially free.) They dropped off a copy of USA Today yesterday and for the first in months, I read a physical newspaper. It’s a general interest newspaper, but the front page seem dominated by financial concerns. There is a “Nation’s gas gauge” in the top left showing how much the price of gas has changed in the last day and the price a year [...]

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Continue reading → Does America Need to Wake Up Financially?

MyGallons.com is a new service that allows you to prepay for gasoline, “locking in today’s prices.” As more an more people come to the seemingly inevitable conclusion that gas prices can only continue to rise, it’s no surprise that a company came along to take advantage of this line of thinking. I seem [...]

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Continue reading → MyGallons.com and the Rising Gas Hype

Like almost all of my weekend posts, I try to highlight something that’s not necessarily related to personal finance. Maybe it’s a small detail of something that’s going on my life. Earlier this week, I was driving to the store to do some shopping and I heard an unusual song. It caught my attention because I would categorize it as rap, but I don’t listen to channels that typically play rap. Perhaps it’s a lot like one of favorite bands, Cake.
I went home and found the the video on YouTube. I showed it to my [...]

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Continue reading → I Can Ride My Bike With Handlebars (and weekend links)

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Citing higher gasoline prices, the IRS has increased the optional business standard mileage rate from 50.5 cents per mile to 58.5 cents per mile for July-December of 2008. Taxpayers can use the optional standard rates to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business. This is also [...]

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Continue reading → IRS Mileage Rate Increased for July-Dec 2008

Memorial Day weekend is over… *Sigh*… back to work. The local news last night interviewed a number of people about how they spent their Memorial Day weekend. I was surprised by the number that were really cutting down their driving to save money on gas. One family decided to cut down their vacations from 3 to 1.
My wife and I don’t drive very much for vacations. We might go 45 miles north to Napa for some wine tasting this summer. When/If we do, we’ll hopefully find a cheap motel or perhaps even camp out. [...]

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Continue reading → Ask The Readers: Did Staycation to Save Money on Gas?