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Roundup for week of 24 December 2007: Mercy Ships edition

December 31st, 2007 | by mbhunter |

The sermon in church yesterday was a little different.  A guy who attended our church has been a missionairy with Mercy Ships.  Briefly, Mercy Ships travels to developing nations to provide surgeries, dental treatment, health care training, agricultural training, and more from a Christ-centered perspective.

Here are some links of interest from the festive folks at the MBN and from other great blogs in my reader:

• Get Rich Slowly discusses Charity Navigator as a guide to intelligent giving.
• Free Money Finance explains what buy term and invest the difference means.
• All Financial Matters shows what a 1% difference in draw rate from retirement funds will do.
• Blueprint for Financial Prosperity manager of the Festival of Frugality, discusses the fundamentals of frugality.
• Consumerism Commentary lists a few ways to get your finances on track in 2008.
• Five Cent Nickel talks about the 2008 Social Security tax cap, self-employment, and other tidbits.
• No Credit Needed opened up a Coverdell Education Savings Account.
• The Digerati Life gives twenty ways to shop safely.
• Money Smart Life suggests a few things to minimize your already onerous gas expense.
• The Sun’s Financial Diary gives some first impressions of Scottrade’s improved mutual fund center.
• Generation X Finance discusses why teens should think about retirement.
• Lazy Man and Money relates personal finance to playing the perfect game.
• Saving Advice turns conventional wisdom on its head and lists ten reasons not to make New Year’s Resolutions.
• Brip Blap thinks that “spend less than you earn” is the wrong way to think.  (At least it’s wrong to think only that way.)
• Cash Money Life warns us of upselling.
• Gather Little By Little shares ten goals for his blog in 2008.  This is a good list of goals — they’re all specific and measurable.  Goest thou and do likewise.
• Mrs. Micah shows off her coin jar.  I have one too.  The money adds up.
• Money Dummy explains her husband’s tips for good eBay listings.

Thanks to The Simple Dollar for linking to my post on why picking up pennies rocks.

Enjoy!

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