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Site Issues, Carnivals and Weekend Reading - Jan 18, 2008
This week was a technically challenging week for MDJ as I botched an upgrade thus making various parts of the site a little buggy. One thing I noticed was that the post schedule was a little wonky, so thanks for being so patient while I'm working things out. As per the messed up scheduling, I promised a book giveaway of the book "A Million Bucks by 30". That contest has been postponed until coming Monday (hopefully)!
Anyways, enough about that, here are some great money related articles I read this week.
- Plonkee Money hosted this weeks Carnival of Personal Finance. Out of the editors picks, my absolute favorite was "How I taught my Preschooler the Value of a Dollar".
- Moolanomy had the great idea of posting the best pf blog posts of 2007 and a bunch of top notch sites participated. The articles submitted are all worth the read.
- The Financial Blogger writes about his feelings/stress levels just before a job interview. I can certainly relate with him on this one.
- There is some good news and bad news with regards to those with variable rate loans/mortgages. The good news is that economists predict that the central bank will drop rates by 0.25%. The bad news is that the banks may not drop prime to match. You can read a more detailed article by Canadian Mortgage Trends.
- We've written about tipping policies before, but only on a local basis. CBC has an article that describes tipping policies for some international cities.
One more thing!
- MDJ had the honour of posting a guest article about the basics of RRSP's on one of the bigger pf blogs out there, GetRichSlowly. Thanks for the opportunity J.D!
Enjoy the weekend!
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7 Comments, Comment or Ping
1. Four Pillars
You left one out -
MDJ writes a guest post on the biggest PF blog in the world…
http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/01/17/the-basics-of-rrsps-registered-retirement-savings-plans/
Jan 18th, 2008 @ 8:36 am
2. FrugalTrader
Hey FP, almost forgot. :) I’ll have to include that in the post now.
Jan 18th, 2008 @ 9:24 am
3. Lynnae @ beingfrugal.net
Thanks for the mention! And congratulations on the guest post!
Jan 18th, 2008 @ 10:36 am
4. Pinyo
Thank you for sharing the Best of 2007 round up with your readers. I really enjoyed reading your Car Salesman post and I hope we can do this again next year.
Jan 18th, 2008 @ 11:43 am
5. Mortgage Broker
Thanks FT! As it stands (if we had to make an educated guess), the odds are much higher that banks will lower prime 1/4% if the Bank of Canada cuts 1/4%. But we’ll have to wait and see…
Have a great weekend,
Melanie
Jan 18th, 2008 @ 12:38 pm
6. The Financial Blogger
Thx for the mention FT and congrats on your guest post on Get Rich Slowly! That’s awesome!
Jan 19th, 2008 @ 10:35 am
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