For those in the Philadelphia region, mark your calendar for the first Financial Fitness Day, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3. at the Penn State Great Valley campus in Malvern, Pa. The event is sponsored by the Philadelphia Tri-State Area Chapter of the Financial Planning Association.
Yours truly will be among the speakers. I’ll […]
Sometimes my Spending Smart column gets shortened considerably to fit in the newspaper. Here is the full version of Sunday’s column. It seemed to generate interest, being picked up by many newspapers across the country.
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What’s your opinion on the money/happiness link?
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By Gregory Karp
Maybe money can’t buy love, but it might buy happiness. Or, […]
Sunday’s Spending Smart newspaper column was about budgeting, the dreaded “B” word of personal finance.
A woman wrote with the following question, which I took a shot at answering. Do you agree or disagree? Do you have different advice?
Her e-mail:
Gregory, I just read your article in the Baltimore Sun and have a question.
You say the details […]
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I regularly advocate using a shopping robot, or shop-bot, to compare prices quickly on the Web. Examples are Google Product Search, MySimon.com and Shopzilla.com. You go to these sites, type in what you’re looking for — preferably with a model number — and it returns prices from a variety of retailers.
Productivity site Lifehacker.com […]
Industry research firm IBISWorld is out this morning with an interesting grocery-comparison chart from a study it conducted.
Takeaways?
If you want to save money, you should consider store brands, regardless of where you live. And yes, more often these days you can find store-brand organics, according to a recent story in the Wall Street Journal.
Organics are […]
I’m featured today in a Time magazine blog about what I would spend good money on — and what I wouldn’t. Hope you find it a good read.
What’s your opinion? What would you not hesitate to shell out for?
Social Security’s Retirement Estimator might be among the best-kept secrets for financial planning. It went online about a year ago.
There, you can calculate how much you can expect to receive in Social Security benefits. It uses your personal earnings information on file at Social Security. That means you have to provide some identifying information, including […]
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Are you ready to live like no one else, so later, you can live like no one else? Ready for beans and rice, rice and beans? Ready to be gazelle-intense about getting out of debt?
Those are some of the favorite phrases of get-out-of-debt guru Dave Ramsey of syndicated radio and Fox Business News fame. If […]
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So, I’m just getting used to this Tweeting stuff — publishing short blurbs on Twitter.com. You can follow me on Twitter at: spendingsmart.
Here’s a sampling of recent postings:
Ditch those store loyalty cards and still get the discounts you want. Here’s how: http://bit.ly/g6oY827 minutes ago from TweetDeck
RT @FMFblog: 15 web apps for managing […]
If you were going to order books from Barnes & Noble soon anyway — maybe your child’s summer reading list? — might as well use the above link and use the code: D3A7V3V to get 20 percent off the most expensive item (not the entire purchase). Offer good 6/19 to 6/22.
Full disclosure: If you use […]
