This Week In Personal Finance #5: Lazy Sunday Edition

March 31st, 2007 • Related • Filed Under • by admin

Trent over at the Simple Dollar gives a great idea to those who are impulsive, freeze your credit cards. This will make it so you can’t get at them very easily, and will be forced to wait if you want to make a purchase.

FMF over at Free Money Finance takes a look at what a million dollars actually means any more. Because of inflation, having seven figures of wealth just isn’t what it used to be. Be sure to check out his post entitled, “$1 Million Isn’t What It Used To Be, But It’s More Than Most People Have.”

The Sun over at The Sun’s Financial Diary looks at how items are priced in the retail market and what you can do to spend less money in a post entitled “The Art of Retail Pricing.”

Lazy Man and Money tried his hand at the credit card arbitrage game, and unsurprisingly it’s not going so well. Be sure to check out his post entitled, “The End of My Credit Card Arbitrage (or Why I Hate Discover)”

Finance 4 Youth offers some dating advice for young people who are trying to live financially sound lives in a post entitled, “Dating Advice For Young People”