Posts I Enjoyed Last Week

Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money talks about DRIP investing in a guest post. I am a fan of DRIP and currently investing in several stocks via DRIP programs. However, the appeal of DRIP now is not as strong as before as free dividend reinvestment is very common with discount brokerages and the introduction of commission free trading such as Zecco* could eliminate the need of DRIP.

Silicon Valley Blogger asks “I’m frugal, so why can’t I save more money?” Very interesting discussion. Looking at myself, I don’t think I did very well in the spending-control part as well as I found myself in the “Eating out tonight has no affect on going out the rest of the week” category, though we don’t eat out that often.

Golbguru at Money, Matter and More Musings takes a look at Best Buy’s “Back To School Tech List” and declares that “it is essentially a big load of crap.” I wonder why so many tech gears are “essentials for college life.”

Jeremy at Generation X Finance suggests strategies to profit from a down market: short selling. I have never used the technique before in my stock trading. Perhaps I should use it as some of my stocks are going nowhere but down

Ben at Money Smart Life has an idea of showing your spouse you care and it’s making spousal IRA contribution.

FMF at Free Money Finance is surprised by the fact that there are 60 million adult Americans don’t pay taxes at all.

Jim at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity felt the pain of recent market turmoil and unloaded his Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 investment.

MBH at Mighty Bargain Hunter has another good reason to buy a car with cash: you don’t have to get anybody’s approval when it’s available.

Nickel at Five Cent Nickel says Capital One sucks slightly less now as they starts to report credit limit instead of the actual balances.

Jonathan at My Money Blog has a nice calculator to calculate the profit from credit card 0% balance transfer.

Mapgirl at Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge says she’s a better saver than a debtor and asks what about you?

Finally, I participated in last week’s Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by The Frugal Law Student with a post on adding VISVX to VTMSX.

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