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  • Life Insurance Fraud | Extreme Cases Of Life Insurance Fraud

    Life insurance fraud costs international life insurance providers and estimated $68 billion dollars annually. Wow! $68B is a lot of dough – the kind of dough that makes people go crazy with desire; and commit serious crimes. Life insurance fraud cases are, as you would probably expect, at all-time highs. That means that people are…

  • Five Tips for Saving Money on Your Energy Bill

    These days, everybody is looking for ways to save money here and there. And with the cost of energy being higher than ever, this is one of the main monthly expenses that renters and homeowners alike are looking to cut down on. So if you are tired of paying a ridiculous amount of money for…

  • June 2010 Archive

    Pardon the dust.  It is an archive afterall.   June 7  The Money Monkey June 8  The GREAT Coupon Experiment – Week 1  June 9  Don’t Touch That! June 10  Our Mortgage Crisis June 11  A Spouse’s Guide to: Laughlin AFB June 14  Walmart vs. Super Market vs. Commissary June 15  The GREAT Coupon Experiment –…

  • How to Be Thankful

    Tomorrow is Thanksgiving.  This time of year always gets me feeling thoughtful and introspective.  Like Ernest Hemingway without the drinking… or the man parts.  The Ernest in me is thinking about being thankful – BIG stretch, seeing as how tomorrow's Thanksgiving.  Writing a financial blog (and having a pulse in general) requires that, at times, I ponder negative…

  • Beg, Borrow, or Steal (Okay, Don’t Steal)

    There aren’t a ton of things I’m genuinely proud of. There is the time I played Super Mario Bros. from World 1-1 through 8-4 completely. There is the time I thwarted a robbery attempt by completely misunderstanding the would-be robber. Oh yeah, and the time I ate an entire large pizza by myself. But, perhaps…

  • Money Carnivals

    Here are the Carnivals I’m featured in this week: Carnival of Money Stories @ No Debt Plan – Childish Lessons in Finance Carnival of Personal Finance @ Beating Broke – Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without Festival of Frugality @ Wealth Informatics – 5 Library Perks Enjoy!

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