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 [...]

Finance Fiesta No. 16: Devote Your Life to Money! Edition

Welcome to the 16th Edition of the Finance Fiesta! If this is your first time here, please be sure to have a look around and consider subscribing to our RSS feed.
This week’s edition was particularly challenging for me to put together, because to tell the truth, of all the submissions received only 60% made [...]

Pecuniarities (Our Fourpence Worth) 1 Year Anniversary

Pecuniarities is 1 year old this month! The actual date of the anniversary is a little ambiguous, as this was my first blog ever and it took me a little time to get it up and running. After writing several posts, I dated the first post February 13, 2008, but it wasn’t till after the [...]

Credits Cards Really Aren’t So Bad (Re-Post)

Note: We are taking a short break from blogging this week and will be re-posting a few of our earlier articles that may not have been read by many of our current readers. If you have already read this article (and those few to come), we apologize for the repetition and assure you that we [...]

April 2008 Finance and Frugality Blog Carnivals

We would like to thank the following Blog Carnivals for featuring our posts.
(This list will be updated to include future inclusions for the month of April 2008.)
Descending chronologically by inclusion date

April 16, 2008
The 8th Edition of the Money Hacks Carnival
Article: The Frugal Literates Guide to Affordable Reading (Double thanks for the editor’s pick!)
April 15, 2008
The [...]

Interesting Reads from Fellow Personal Finance Bloggers

Every now and then, I will be doing a little round-up of articles by fellow personal finance bloggers at PFBloggers.com that may be of interest to our readers here.

If you are thinking of buying a house now or in the near future, I would recommend reading up on Lies Your Realtor Tells You by Seb [...]



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