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Posted
Nov 24 2008, 06:57 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from J.D. Roth at partner blog Get Rich Slowly. In "The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets" (which I recently reviewed), author Peter Schiff provides a list of the best jobs to beat the economic collapse he predicts is just around the corner. "I foresee the following as the 10 strongest professions and industries over the coming decade and beyond," he writes. His list:
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Feb 27 2008, 07:11 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
RacerX remembers the college experience: You get a credit card and "probably then only use the card for emergencies -- no pizza or beer left in the house! Taking our girlfriend out! Maybe even rent once or twice," he writes. Since you know nothing about finances, you get a second credit card to make payments on the first, and so the cycle goes. His kids won't be like that, he says. Why? Because he and Mrs. X have decided they're not paying for their kids' college education. Why not? you ask. Because every kid they know who went to college "on the parent express" left school unprepared for life -- and sometimes didn't even graduate. "They took basket weaving and Klingon 301," he writes at Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Money. "They never worked the menial jobs that give you an appreciation for honest work, honest wages."
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May 14 2009, 01:36 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Gloom about the prospects for jobs with decent pay for everyone continues despite flickers of hope elsewhere about the economy. Not everyone can have a big salary, so what happens to the rest of us?
Amid speculation that wages won't return to pre-Great Recession levels, Patrick at Cash Money Life wonders whatever became of a "living wage." "Why is it such a struggle?" he asked in a post called "What is a living wage and does it exist in the U.S.?" "I can't believe that people don't work as hard today as they did just a few decades ago. But it seems like more people have trouble getting by. Why is that?"
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Jun 18 2008, 05:44 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
Marc at Marc and Angel Hack Life says his list of "50 things everyone should know how to do" is far from inclusive. Oh dear, because there are a number of things on the list of 50 that we need to get cracking on. This list of essential skills is impressive and, better yet, entertaining. Marc's brief explanations about why you should know each thing often have just the right amount of sass. (Our pick for No. 51: Know how and when to be sassy.) For example, Marc writes: "Swim -- 71% of the Earth's surface is covered by water. Learning to swim might be a good idea."
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Jul 23 2008, 12:25 AM
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Donna Freedman
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
On Monday I bought two backpacks, five packages of notebook paper and five boxes of crayons at Office Depot for $3.25 including tax, thanks to the magic of recycled printer cartridges and loss leaders. Then I went to Walgreens and bought two-pocket folders and five-packs of mechanical pencils for a nickel apiece, plus two-packs of gel pens and eight-packs of washable markers that will be free after rebate.
I don't have kids at home. I'm buying these for other people's children. You can, too, and I sure hope you will.
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Oct 08 2008, 04:48 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
This post comes from partner blog The Dough Roller.
Regret over past financial decisions can have a powerful hold on you.
At 23, you may regret running up $20,000 in credit card debt during college. At 35, you may regret never having gone to college. At 45, you may regret having never started that consulting business you always dreamed of pursing. And at 65, you may regret not having saved more for retirement. In recent days, many financial chickens have come home to roost.
Regret, financial or otherwise, can have a powerful grip on your life. For most, the question is not whether you have financial regret. The question is how you harness the power of that regret to make sound financial decisions today that you will not regret tomorrow.
Here are some ideas to help you do just that:
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Feb 20 2008, 12:23 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
A recent article in Money Magazine prompted Lily at The Honest Dollar to write about parents who don't cut the financial cord to their children. Kids are expensive to raise and educate. Then, she writes, "you'd think that once a child graduates into the real world, the bleeding would stop. Not so." The number of adult children living at home has increased 50% in the last 30 years, according to a University of Michigan study. "All told, a 2007 survey by Ameriprise Financial found about nine out of 10 parents give money to their grown kids for major expenses: credit card balances, car insurance, student loans, you name it," Money Magazine says. Lily, a thoughtful young adult, writes that parents need to pay themselves first. She says, "I buy the conventional logic that a child can get loans for school, for a car, for a house -- a parent cannot get a loan for retirement."
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Dec 09 2008, 06:48 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
He's no stranger to controversy, that "Mr. ToughMoneyLove." Whether it's help for homeowners in default -- he called that post "Homeowner bailouts destined to fail" -- or sympathy for a particular 54-year-old GM retiree -- "It's second-career time, my friend, and quit the whining," he said -- he's never shy with his opinions. Recently, he blamed free-spending universities for teaching impressionable minds that it's OK to carry huge debt. Try this quote on for size, from his post "The college student debt machine: A national disgrace" at Tough Money Love.
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Sep 30 2008, 05:20 PM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
"Paidtwice" resents that school districts are "trying to turn our kids into little salespeople" by holding so many fundraisers. She made that remark after her preschooler came home with a fundraising packet, which she promptly tossed in the trash. Her husband gave a neighbor's kid $15 for popcorn she could have bought at a store for much less. She's not upset about the purchase, but "I hate feeling obligated to buy stuff I don't want to be neighborly or nice or just to make the kid not feel bad," she wrote in a post at I've Paid For This Twice Already. We know what she means. Schools seem so strapped for funds that students must peddle goods door-to-door to pay for basic things. But has it gotten out of hand? And is there an alternative?
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Posted
Jul 20 2009, 11:11 AM
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Karen Datko
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Money Blog: Smart Spending Blog - MSN Money
This guest post comes from "vh" at Funny about Money.
Tina, my associate editor on the day job and my moonlight business partner, sent a link to this interesting discussion. The main post itself has several links to relevant, equally interesting posts and conversations.
Given the astonishing burden of student loans that too many young people are saddled with -- my son's roommate's girlfriend, for example, remarked that she will graduate from a top-quality institution with a master's degree in international business and $1,400-a-month student loan payments -- assessing the "value" of graduate education is not a crass or pointless exercise.
It's well and good to love learning for learning's sake and so to feel that the graduate school experience is irrelevant to one's vocational prospects. However, once that graduate school experience ends, you still have to pay for it. You still have to keep a roof over your head, put food on your table, and foot the considerable cost of raising a family. When young people are saddled with five- and six-figure student loan debt, they should reasonably expect the financial investment in graduate education to pay off with jobs that will support them.
That, unfortunately, is too often not the case.
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