A warm welcome to everyone who found PFBlog.com at Wall Street Journal Sunday! Thank you for visiting us.
A quick introduction to our new readers: PFBlog.com operates as two complementary parts. Our main blog, dubbed "My Personal Finance Journey," started more than two years ago as my personal diary (and public record) of earning my first million dollars thru smart money management. As you can see in this brief guide, the theme of the blog is setting goals and executing towards goals. I share my progress monthly and discuss every minute detail of my thinkings, readings and analysis of personal finance issues that affect me.
The other half of PFBlog.com, Personal Finance Bloggers' Network, was formed in March 2005. Many famous personal finance bloggers voluntarily provide content to allow PFBlog.com to be the one-stop blogging portal for personal finance topics.
We now have more than 1,500 posts at PFBlog.com. Every week, we add dozens of new posts and summarize the best posts at PFBlog.com for you in a quick post like this. Read on and enjoy what PFBlog.com has offered in the past seven days!
Bloggers' Personal Stories
• Jim is not so sure if AAA is worth the money. (Good review of AAA benefits too.)
• Nickel had a died washing machine in the room. Check out how he responded.
• MM filed a claim with Geico and is satisfied.
Personal Finance News and Resources
• Our financial-advisor-turned-blogger JLP gave an overview of FOLIOfn, a non-traditional brokerage firm.
• Top picks from world's greatest investors from SmartMoney.
• What are the top 15 hottest real estate markets in the last 12 months?
• Really, you can save no matter how much you earn.
• What is a wrap account?
• How much time does an average employee waste every day? The number will surprise you.
• FMF compiles some money quotes from Lincoln.
• How to live with a dollar a day?
Personal Finance Tips
• The etiquette of money talk (and why personal finance blogs make sense).
• Don't buy furniture off the back of a truck. It might be a scam, as reported by Nickel.
• Behavior finance tells you why people are prone to make certain mistakes over and over again.
• Property tax is a significant homeownership cost. How to cut it? Read the great resouces compiled by flexo.
• Flexo examines why some investing rules might not work.
• How to survive with the new rules in the Citi Driver's Edge card? Check out MM's tips.