The Sun’s Financial Diary

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KirkWalsh has a piece on 10 things to know about saving for retirement. Save and invest, as early as you can.
Money and Values offers some budgeting advices for new grads and says one should “think about what sacrifices today are worth it for benefits tomorrow.”
I Will Teach You to Be Rich [...]

Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life talks about some common fights over money and outlines strategies to avoid them. In my opinion, no fight over money is worth it: it will only increase the tension without resolving anything.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance has a two-session Q&A series (part II) with authors of the book, [...]

Some articles for your reading time:

No Credit Needed shows how he manages his finance using Firefox, ING Direct, online bill pay, etc.
Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge complains about Wal-Mart’s cake, then shows how to get a happy cake.
My Wealth Builder has a simple mutual fund picking strategy: buy the best performing diversified fund of the past, then [...]

Matt at Binary Dollar talks about what umbrella insurance is and how to use it to get extra protection. Whether all insurances are supposed to provide “extra protection,” nobody really gets every kind to be super safe.
Silicon Valley Blogger at The Digerati Life has 10 ways to deal with the problem property next door. Well, [...]

Five Cent Nickel talks about his experience with the new Bank of America ATMs. I don’t know if those in my area will get the upgrade, but it’s pretty cool that “they print a receipt with small images of the scanned checks.”
Free Money Finance discusses ways to get a double tax deduction when contributing to [...]

Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money shares his experience with Prosper.com with a review on how to lend and borrow money. No doubt that there are stories of prosperity, but personally, I don’t feel it’s right for me. I can get 8 – 12% returns from many other places with much lower risk.
Golbguru at [...]

Ben at Money Smart Life compares online banks with local brick and mortar banks to figure out which one makes a better deal. I use local bank for checking and online bank for savings. Ben also hosted last week’s Carnival of Personal Finance.
Jeremy at Generation X Finance says you don’t have to change oil every [...]

TGIF:

Free Money Finance has an idea on how to have a wedding for $200 or less, when “the average U.S. wedding now costs more than $27,000.”
Five Cent Nickel suggests paying your life insurance policy annually can save you money. I always feel paying with installments is more expensive because of the processing fees.
The Real Estate [...]

Hope you have had a nice Memorial Day weekend.

Tight Fisted Miser suggests you should find a mechanic you trust to handle the repair job of your vehicle.
Get Rich Slowly explains how class works. Are you upper-class, or lower-class, or somewhere in between?
The Money Mythos questions the value of online interest checking accounts. Since I only [...]

Ben at Money Smart Life tells us how financial maintenance can keep our money engine running smooth. How often do you do financial housekeeping?
Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money wonders whether we are now living larger or just living differently. Things now are much different from those 30 years ago, are we supposed to [...]