Chance Flavors of the Week

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I would like to thank Pinyo over on Moolanomy for interviewing me this week. It was a lot of fun, although it could have been broken up into a seven part series, lol.

I’d also like to thank JLP from All Financial Matters for writing a nice review of my article 10 Simple Steps to StumbleUpon Success. I connected with a few new SU friends because of the exposure and appreciate the kind words. I look forward to more bloggers understanding what SU is all about and invite them to contact me over there.

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Which makes for a nice little segway into some of my favorite post from the past week, straight from the categories on my StumbleUpon homepage. This week I’m going to highlight 8 different articles, 1 video and one photograph.

Financial Planning

Modern Day Bartering to Save Money - This is an interesting idea and I’ve been reading more and more about bartering coming back into people’s lives. I recently stumbled an article about a British guy going from England to India with no money, bartering his way there. Maybe something is going on here. Some smart person should figure out a way to centralize the movement…

How Do You Keep Grandpa and Grandma Out of the Payday Stores - Here’s a story that illustrates why you should aggressively plan for the future and not rely on your social security check as a means of survival…

Investing

401(k) or IRA? - Lots of good IRA and 401K information here and some helpful suggestions on how to integrate the two avenues…

What is ‘Shorting’ a Stock? - FCN gives you a short but sweet post about shorting stock. It’s good to know what shorting is, but I would leave these kind of trades to the money men…

Self Improvement

What warring first graders taught me about perceived value - Very clever post, it seems many adults still have a lot of the same traits they had when they were children, I think they’re just far better at masking them…

Everything I Needed to Know About A Frugal Valentine’s Day I Learned From My Dog - I think this a very clever post for Valentine’s Day. I stopped reading V-day posts because people were writing the same things. Well, not this one. This is a very original and thought provoking approach to celebrating Valentine’s Day and beyond…

Living

Reluctance to Use Emergency Funds - Nice easy read on the importance of an emergency fund and how you should set it up. I agree with FD, using credit as an emergency fund is plain wrong, if anything, it should act as overdraft protection for your emergency fund.

7 Reasons My Life is More Fulfilling - a nice list that reminds us there’s more to life than financial and professional success. I’ve met a lot of people that are successful in the classical sense but struggle with many of the items on this list.

Video

john.he.is - In order to appreciate this video you have to know of (or have seen) the Obama video that’s sweeping the internet and the nation. This response is very funny, especially the slogan at the end. I was laughing when I saw the Iraq troop withdrawal date…

Picture

Northern Saw-whet Owl

Enjoy the rest of your weekend…

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