MBN Group Writing Project: Finances at Graduation

June is a big graduation month, and for lots of students the time has come to exit from a world of protection and nurturing to The Real World, where life does have losers, your boss can be more demanding than any professor or teacher you’ve ever had, and broadband Internet access is no longer free.

With that in mind, bloggers of the Money Blog Network and other bloggers in the forums have written posts that relate to finance issues people face at graduation. We invite you to check them out!

Bloggers: This is a great opportunity for discussion and cross-linking! Additionally, we’ll be adding any June, 2008, posts on this topic until July 1st! Instructions are here.

Thanks for everyone’s participation, and enjoy the posts!

June 16, 2008 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off 

Money Blog Network Group Writing Project: Looking Back

This month, members of the Money Blog Network - and other personal finance bloggers - look back, 10 years, and examine how their lives have changed.

Here are the articles from the Money Blog Network -

Here are articles from our fellow personal finance bloggers -

If you are a personal finance blogger and you would like to participate, contact me and we’ll be glad to link to your post.

May 25, 2008 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off 

MBN Group Writing Project: Emergency Funds

This month’s writing project focuses on "emergency funds." The participating bloggers will share tips, pointers, and opinions about the generally-accepted financial advice that dictates that individuals should be able to access cash for emergencies.

Here are the articles.

All bloggers are invited to participate. Please email us with a link to your article from April 2008 pertaining to emergency funds and we will add it to the list.

Have a link to add? If it was written and published in April and pertains to emergency funds, let us know on the MBN Forums and it will be included.

April 14, 2008 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off 

MBN Group Writing Project: Best Tax Advice

Well, it’s that time again — the tax man has his hand out and April 15 is right around the corner. That’s why this month’s Money Blog Network group writing project deals with taxes. In this edition, each MBN member lists his best tax advice/tip. We’re hopeful that these posts make this time of year a little less taxing for you. ;-)

Here are the posts:

Here are some more. If you have an article published in March about your best tax advice, please let us know, and we’ll add a link to this list.

March 3, 2008 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off 

MBN Group Writing Project: Budgets

Good morning. Welcome to this month’s Money Blog Network Group Writing Project.

Each month, members of the network write about a specific topic - and we encourage you to write about the topic as well.

This month’s topic - Budgets

Below, you’ll find links to our articles about budgets, budgeting, and budgeting software.

* Five Cent Nickel: The Fine Art Of ‘Reverse Budgeting’
* Mighty Bargain Hunter: A Budget In Your Head Isn’t Really A Budget
* No Credit Needed: Living On A Budget - Don’t Knock It Until You Try It
* Get Rich Slowly: A Free And Simple Budget Planner
* Free Money Finance: My Confession: I’m Not Doing A Budget For 2008
* Consumerism Commentary: Actual vs. Budget Report, January 2008

Here are some more:

* Crazy Mokes: You Really Do Need a Budget

* Newly Corporate: 3 Fast And Easy Budgeting Methods

* Millionaire Mommy Next Door: We Live The Good Life, Not The Goods Life

* Prime Time Money: Budget: Easy And Smart

* SoundMoneyMatters: Creating A Cash Flow Budget

* Credit Withdrawal: My Crazy Budget, The Quicken Way

* Moolanomy: Living Stress Free Without Budgeting

* DebtFree-Revolution: How I Got Out Of Consumer Debt: The Budget

* The Wisdom Journal: A Budget Controls Your Money Like A Dam Controls A River

* Make Love, Not Debt: How We Budget

* Millionaire Money Habits: Spend Your Budget

* Paid Twice: How I Budget

If you have an article about budgets, contact me and I’ll add it to our list.

February 7, 2008 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off 

MBN Group Writing Project: How are Those 2008 Goals Going?

It’s near the end of January. Most of the holiday decorations are down now, work is back in full force again, and tax season is just around the corner.

It’s also been almost a month since the beginning of the year, and almost a month to begin working on making some of those 2008 goals you made in December 2007 a reality. You do remember those goals you made, don’t you?

It’s no secret that the large majority of New Year’s Resolutions aren’t kept long enough for the resolver to see their positive effects. Depending on whom you talk to or which statistic you believe, one-half to four-fifths of resolutions don’t make it past the end of January! Or even if you don’t call them “resolutions,” the steps that you said you’d take to reach your goals might have already lost some steam.

That’s why we’re doing an MBN Group Writing Project on this subject. We’ll be posting on various aspects of this subject today; some of us may do a brief report on how we’re progressing toward our goals. We may even reach out and pick on a few other bloggers who’ve set goals for themselves to see how they’re doing! The whole purpose is to remind ourselves of where we want to go this year, and to try to nudge ourselves toward making all of those great things happen!

Here are the posts in the group writing project:

January 28, 2008 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off 

MBN Group Writing Project: Year End Money Moves

Good morning, and welcome to what we hope will become a regular feature here at the MoneyBlogNetwork… Our very own group writing project. Given that 2007 is almost history, we thought we’d kick it off by talking about year end money moves. So… At some point today each of us will be publishing an article detailing a particularly timely money move.

Below is a list of participating articles (check back if they’re not all up yet):

» Time to Rebalance Your Portfolio (All Financial Matters)
» Dumb Year End Money Moves (Blueprint for Financial Prosperity)
» Use Your Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Funds Before Its Too Late (Consumerism Commentary)
» Clearing Our Your House for Fun and Profit (FiveCentNickel)
» Make Your Charitable Deductions Before Year End (Free Money Finance)
» Paycheck and Witholding Calculators for Year End Money Moves (Get Rich Slowly)
» Jump Start Your Debt Reduction Using Christmas Gifts and Year End Bonuses (No Credit Needed)
» Grab Some Year End Bargains (Mighty Bargain Hunter)

If you’d like to be listed, simply publish an article of your own, link back to this announcement, and drop me a line with the link and the title. We’ll be accepting entries throughout the week.

December 17, 2007 | Filed Under Group Projects | Comments Off