http://ecreditmatch.com/blog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:18:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A collection of links to free educational material online. The amount of information available online is expanding so fast, you can at least explore a new direction without leaving your house. University-Specific MIT OpenCourseware - Free lecture notes, exams, and videos from almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at ... http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2010/03/links-free-online-university-courses.html One of the ways we’ve managed to avoid debt is very simple: We take care of all of our possessions so that they will last. Making things last longer means we don’t have to replace them as often, saving us large amounts of money. This sounds like a no brainer, ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PersonalFinanceAdvice/~3/bdQokmrjZJI/105788_a-life-without-debt-take-care-of-your-stuff.html Wall Street Journal published a good article today discussed oppsing views of the market's prospects. What makes it interesting is the two heavyweight scholars that take drastically different sides: Robert Shiller as the bear and Jeremy Siegel as the bull. Prof. Shiller, whose book "Irrational Exuberance" correctly predicted the .com bubble, ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pfblog2/~3/xu_W-87rsRg/6402_shiller_vs_siegel.shtml The other site I used when selling back my old textbooks online was and SellBackYourBook.com. All the websites I used did indeed eventually pay me for my books. Reviews on the Web I did not spend more than couple minutes on this, but a quick search did not find ... http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2010/03/sellbackyourbookcom-review-textbook-sellback-scam.html A shopping list sounds like such a simple thing to do, but how many times have you arrived at the store with no list and no idea what you really need? It leads to frustration and overspending, doesn’t it? I hear you now: “A list takes too long to get ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PersonalFinanceAdvice/~3/x49_zP6hF1w/105784_the-shopping-list-a-simple-way-to-save-money-and-time.html The Oracle's Annual Letter to Berkshire Shareholders is always a good read. Finally, I found some time during the weekend to go over the letter and the 2009 annual report. Owning 600 Class-B shares, I'm of course happy with the stock's performance and especially recent stock price spike. I've been ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pfblog2/~3/8C_q2QsNUN0/6401_warren_buffetts_2009_annual_letters_to_berkshire_shareholders.shtml It’s been about a month since I wrote about selling back my old textbooks online. I ended up selling books to two websites, ValoreBooks.com and SellBackYourBook.com. I figured I’d do a quick review of each one, starting with ValoreBooks. There were some online accusations at ... http://www.mymoneyblog.com/archives/2010/03/valore-books-review-textbook-sellback-experience.html http://www.bad-credit-advisor.com/2010/03/how-to-reduce-taxes-legally-tax-reduction-strategies.html It is hard for me to believe that I have been writing here at Saving Advice for close to two years now. After about 150 columns, I am pleased to count many of you among my new friends! I’ve also developed a sense of how readers are likely ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PersonalFinanceAdvice/~3/JFFPnrilWlU/105768_get-over-it.html This is a series of posts about what you will find in Dave Ramsey’s Financial Peace University course. This is week three (week one and week two) The lesson for this week was cash flow planning, also known as budgeting. You could see everybody approaching this lesson with trepidation. Not only ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PersonalFinanceAdvice/~3/qrxjk8D3rNA/105763_dave-ramsey-financial-peace-university-week-3.html