Mighty Bargain Hunter

Roundup for week of 6 May 2007

May 13th, 2007 | by mbhunter |

Happy weekends are here again — and so is this week’s roundup:

• Five Cent Nickel loves — I mean really loves — his credit card.
• Free Money Finance reminds us about the wash sale rule.
• All Financial Matters noticed that the NASDAQ is a bit of a slacker.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity plays the devil’s advocate and goes whole-hog for home warranties.
• Consumerism Commentary reports on an ING customer’s account that was closed due to bad credit.
• Money Smart Life talks about the costs of being a homeowner.
• Money, Matter, and More Musings shares a post on handling financial disagreements with your SO/spouse.
• The Digerati Life paints a picture of unfinished homes, foreclosure, and real estate downturn on her block.
• The Sun’s Financial Diary finds out about the Millionaire Index.
• The Binary Dollar uses math to save money on his pepperoni, sausage, green pepper, onion pizza fix.
• Lazy Man and Money waxes poetic about planning purchases far in advance.

Also, here are the carnivals my posts were featured in this week:

• Carnival of Taxes over at Don’t Mess with Taxes, with my post on Tax Freedom Day
• Carnival of Shopping over at Pocket Change, with my post on adding a GPS navigation system
• Carnival of Financial Planning over at The Skilled Investor with two posts (guess I was ambitious or something!) — one on five ways to kill your retirement dreams and a really simple retirement formula
• Carnival of Personal Finance over at Money, Matter, and More Musings with my post on an interesting fixed-rate mortgage

Enjoy!