Saving For a Down Payment on a House

The shakeup in the housing market over the past several years has brought the need and advantages of a down payment when buying a new home back into focus. In a traditional mortgage, the home buyer was required to provide a 20% down payment at the time of closing. This trend shifted during the housing [...]

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Friday, January 27th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

Social Bankruptcy

For the past several months, I’ve been going through a social reboot. This involves consciously reassessing my social life and deciding what connections and social habits to maintain and what to change. But this year I’ve decided to go further with this process and declare outright social bankruptcy. This is an area of my life that was far [...]

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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

Opting Out of Holiday Gift Exchanges

Today I told my family that I’m permanently opting out of buying/giving/receiving gifts for all future birthdays & holidays. Many people grow up with holiday traditions that center around buying and exchanging gifts with family members. I enjoyed and appreciated this when I was younger, and I have many fond memories about it. These days [...]

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Thursday, January 26th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

Top 25 Make Money Online Blogs for 2012

The authors here at Can I Make Big Money Online are very happy to share some exciting news with you today… We made the list of the top 25 make money online blogs to follow in 2012. In fact, we are the first blog mentioned on the list! Although this isn’t the first time we [...]

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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

Five Money Saving Habits You’ll Want to Learn This Year

When it comes to saving money, there’s no better time to get back on track than the New Year. For some miraculous reason, January gives people hope and inspires them to change their ways. That’s why New Year’s resolutions are so comical. In retrospect, everyone wishes that they had done something different the previous year. [...]

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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

Approach Anxiety

Several months ago I was speaking with my friend Morty Lefkoe about fears and limiting beliefs that I noticed among my readers. I shared with him that one of the biggest problem areas was approach anxiety. While many readers appear to be very social online, it’s common for them to be pretty socially timid in [...]

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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

It’s Not Too Late to Max Out Your 2011 IRA Contribution in 2012

Max Out Your 2011 IRA in 2012 The calendar may have flipped to the new year, which means most tax tricks, tips, and deductions have closed the book on last year’s taxes, but that isn’t the case for your IRAs. Individual Retirement Accounts are unique in that they give you up until when you file [...]

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Thursday, January 19th, 2012 Financial Freedom 1 Comment

Job Hunting Tips for the New College Graduate

If you’re a college student preparing to graduate, you may find that some job markets aren’t exactly hot right now. There are plenty of jobs out there, but finding your ideal job will be harder than it has been in the past. While many of these tips are helpful for someone seeking their first job [...]

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Monday, January 16th, 2012 Financial Freedom Comments Off

How to Find Legitimate Work From Home Opportunities

We’ve all received an email with urgent information about how we can make our living in a few hours a day by working from home. Although opportunities like this do exist, these unsolicited messages are often deemed as nothing more than spam sent by scammers trying to get your credit card information. So, how does [...]

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