Personal Finance Weekend Reading Round-Up

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance reading that has caught our eye that may be of interest to you:

Discussions From The Forums

These are threads started this past week within the forums which have created quite a bit of discussion:

• What do rich people invest in?
• Buying coupons on ebay
• Anyone have RecycleBank where you live?
• Retirement: How are you funding it?
• Do You Like to Travel?
• Does anyone do anything to earn extra money?
• If my dad had it his way….
• Who watched Suze Orman tonite?
• Saving Money on Gas
• Your commute to work: how far, how much time, what means to you use?
• Keep renting or sell now? I’d like your opinion
• Job offer? How to crunch these numbers
• Ed McMahon facing foreclosure
• How much would it take for you to retire now?
• Big pay raise – what to do with it?
• Cash like water
• To increase savings rate or not?
• Talk me down…

Personal Finance Articles:

These are some of the personal finance and money related stories that caught our eye this week:

• Being Poor
• Dow down 400 pts; Oil up $11 today
• The sheriff that refused to to hold court ordered foreclosure auctions
• Phila. newspapers run ads about fake airline Derrie-Air
• What’s the real federal deficit?
• The man traders, economists, even Nasa, are clamouring to hear speak
• Freeganism (aka Dumpster diving)
• Second Great Depression in Detroit
• McNabb to head Vanguard soon
• How not to protest high gas prices
• Is $1 Million Enough to Retire On?
• It’s Not So Easy Being Less Rich
• America’s house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression
• Auctions on eBay: A Dying Breed
• The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least
• Shopaholic? Check Your Self Esteem
• Pinched Consumers Scramble for Cash
• 31 summer trips that won’t break your budget
• A freelance lifestyle in a corporate workplace
• Interesting Banking Philosophy
• Frugal Advice…..If You’re A Speeder
• Women In Bikinis Make Men Spend Stupidly – On Everything

This Week’s Money Carnivals

Blog carnivals are always a great place to see the best writing from a large variety of blogs from around the blogosphere:

• Frugality
• Personal Finance

Image courtesy of phunkstarr

Jeffrey Strain

Jeffrey strain is a freelance author, his work has appeared at The Street.com and seekingalpha.com. In addition to having authored thousands of articles, Jeffrey is a former resident of Japan, former owner of Savingadvice.com and a professional digital nomad.