Scan Items As Your Shop: Want a look at the shopping experience of the future? You’ll have a self scanner which you can use to scan each item as you take it off the shelf while you shop and bag your groceries right away. Then simply pay before you leave. It’s already being tested.

You can have a wedding, or you can have $30,000 to help you get started on your new life: My personal feeling is that a lot of couple would start off on a much more stable financial foundation if they didn’t have an extravagant wedding and instead took the saved money and invested it in their future.

How To Be Cheap (comic) – It will make you smile.

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Queer Cents: Don’t let the name of this blog keep you away even if you aren’t in their target audience – while geared toward the gay and lesbian community, there is plenty of quality personal finance information that can benefit anyone such as their free expense tracker in both excell and pdf format. Also check out their 10 Money Questions series where they interview famous people on money issues. Take a look and I think you’ll find them worth adding to your rss feed

And for those that need some more reading to start off your week:

There’s a special carnival of personal finance this week with the best posts submitted from the previous years – some great reading.