Closing Your Credit Cards Can Hurt Your FICO Score

In recent months, the subject of “too many credit cards” has frequently arisen on blogs and forums. I have even seen a post title saying that closing a credit card will immediately boost your credit score by 10 points. I don’t know if this is true; a quick search on Google didn’t turn up any [...]

How I Got a Free Subscription to the Wall Street Journal

Some of you may have noticed references to the Wall Street Journal in a few of my recent posts. This is because I began receiving a print subscription of the Wall Street Journal a few weeks ago – for free. I am a member of the e-Rewards program, which offers rewards currency in exchange for [...]

Poorest Time of Our Lives

The topic for this month’s PF Bloggers Group Writing Project, “Poorest Time of Your Life” which was decided about 5 months ago, comes at a somewhat inopportune time. When our group picked out these topics, whoever it was that suggested this topic must have thought that we must all be in a position where the [...]

Under the Weather – Recommended Reading

Apologies for not posting anything of substance yesterday or today, but due to feeling a little under the weather these few days, I thought I would post a summary of recommended reading for those of you who are new to this blog, and a few news items from the personal finance blogosphere. From Our Fourpence [...]

Interesting Reads From Fellow Personal Finance Bloggers #19

Wow, I am really behind this week. Apologies to Pecuniary Associates members and carnival hosts for being 3 days late with this week’s roundup. I’m still sort of recovering from my taxing tax experience last week – mostly by letting myself be a little lazy this week. Well, this will be a short one this [...]

Giveaways Ending Soon! And Hosting 2 Blog Carnivals Next Week

Enter now for a chance to win 1 of 2 prepaid access codes for TurboTax Premier Online. Contest ends 11:59PM PST Saturday, March 28, 2009. Pecuniarities is hosting Carnival of Debt Reduction and Carnival of Pecuniary Delights next week. Submit your posts for double carnival exposure and enter to win 2 cute piggy bank magnets!

New Personal Finance and Frugality Blog Carnival: The Carnival of Pecuniary Delights

Announcing the Carnival of Pecuniary Delights, a new blog carnival featuring the best articles on personal finance, money management and frugal living from around the blogosphere.


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