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Friday night reading list:

Five Cent Nickel talks about eco-friendly energy savings. After I went through the list, I have to admit that I really didn’t do a good job in being environmental friendly
Free Money Finance asks your stance on Wal-mart: love them or hate them. I shop at Wal-mart since they offer better [...]

Five Cent Nickel talks about the difference between net worth and net investable assets. When I calculate my net worth, I don’t include any assets such as house or car.
Free Money Finance says timing is important when asking for a raise. I think a good time is after you make a signification contribution to the [...]

Hope you enjoy these posts:

My Money Blog just discovered a new site, Yapta, that helps you get a refund if there’s a price drop after you purchased your airline tickets.
Consumerism Commentary talks about FNBO Direct and its recent media blitz. Are you a rate chaser?
Wise Bread has a post titled “DO NOT buy a digital [...]

Friday readings:

Free Money Finance talks about save money by going back time with a list of what we consider necessities these days. Guess what, there are people have to have an iPod.
Five Cents Nickel emphasizes the importance of buying flood insurance. If you are living in a flood area, don’t wait till it’s too late [...]

Tuesday findings:

Wise Bread take on Horizon organic milk and asks “Is it all just lies?” I have read some bad stories about Horizon before.
The Money Mythos is also considering getting a FNBO account, but wondering how much of a difference 1% makes. The difference will be big if the basis is large.
Get Rich Slowly says [...]

Welcome to the 11th edition of Carnival of Money Stories. For this edition of the carnival, we received a total of 25 submissions in the categories such as Frugal, Money, Real estate, Credit card, and Blogging. Among the submissions, I found the following stories particularly interesting:

A frugality cheat sheet from The Frugalist at Frugalist [...]

Enough Top 5’s and back to normal:

Five Cents Nickel makes his case on why credit card rocks and debit card sucks. I never used a debit card and I only need one reason to use credit card all the time: the reward!
Free Money Finance offers 18 ways to save on small income. Actually, “it [...]

Hope you also like these articles:

$1 Million To My Name weighs on the renting vs. buying debate and declares renting is not better than buying, while Consumerism Commentary says renting makes your richer.
Plus6.com lists 5 personal finance spring cleaning things that you may want to do now. It mentioned one of my post on 401(k) [...]

In April, I posted 56 articles on this Diary. The number is slightly low than previous months due to busy schedules at work and home. At the end of the month, I feel it’s a good time to look back and see what has happened here at this Diary with a monthly Highlight post. With [...]

A quite late one for Friday, but here they are:

Free Money Finance uses the rule of 70 instead of 72  to estimate his investment returns.
Five Cents Nickel wonders how everybody keeps tracking their receipts. I just put them in a big envelope that I almost never cleaned up. BTW, Nickel is having a HUGE anniversary [...]