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How To Save Money When Attending Professional Conferences

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:00:24 +0000

I don’t know if you’ve heard but the first ever Personal Finance Blog Conference is being help this week and I’m going!! I’m so excited about this because not only is it very niche specific, just about every personal finance blogger I’ve met online throughout the years will be there. I’m looking forward to getting [...]

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5 Ways Being Stupid Will Cost You

Jesse Michelsen — Fri, 27 May 2011 13:00:22 +0000

People are pretty stupid. You have to admit it, the human race as a whole is not something to be proud of. Sure we have the philosophers and greats throughout history but they are few and far between. Here are five ways being stupid can cost you money. Speeding. This should be pretty obvious but [...]

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How To Play Your Finance By Ear

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 11 May 2011 13:30:06 +0000

This past year I’ve really gotten in touch with my musical side. I’ve been learning the piano feverishly, trying to rise up and meet my own challenge. While music and personal finance may seem world apart I’ve come to see many correlations between the two. Play your finances by ear In music, there are many [...]

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Fear and Frenzy: How Do They Affect You?

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 13:30:55 +0000

Fear – it’s so primal yet so illogical. A fear or phobia can’t always be explained but can’t be argued either. One thing is certain though, fear is contagious. Take my two daughters for instance. My oldest daughter has been deathly afraid of bugs since she was little. I think that somewhat had something to [...]

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Refund Anticipation Loan?

Jesse Michelsen — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:18:10 +0000

So I heard on the radio that H&R Block is offering Tax Refund Anticipation Loans…wow really? They aren’t the only ones but one of the bigger companies providing this service (and I use the term service very loosely). I’m sure this has been around for years but I’ve never heard of such a thing. Here’s [...]

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My Brothers First Financial Meltdown

Jesse Michelsen — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 19:26:24 +0000

You can check out the second part of this article here Back in May this year, my older brother came to me with a problem. He asked me to loan him money because he was getting behind on his bills and didn’t think he could make his payments that month. He wanted to borrow the [...]

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How Do You Rank Yourself? Introducing the player in PF Blog Ranking

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:04:24 +0000

There is something to be said about ranking yourself when it comes to finance, in fact in just about every situation in life, we humans like to classify and rank ourselves; it’s only natural Most people rank themselves based on income but that’s usually pretty gray as many people just guess at others income based [...]

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Are You Familiar With Tipping Etiquette?

Jesse Michelsen — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:30:14 +0000

After our adventure over the weekend at the restaurant with horrible food and worse service, I realized that I didn’t tip the waiter. Tipping is something I already hate doing, not because I feel like people don’t deserve a tip for great service, but because some expect a tip for mediocre service. I hate that [...]

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What Is Your Service Tolerance Level?

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 12:30:53 +0000

Update: Soon after this experience, and prompted by all of my awesome readers, I contacted Chili’s via their Twitter account. They really went the extra mile to make things right, and I appreciate it. Check out my follow-up post detailing what they did. Thanks for caring, Chili’s. Saturday, my wife and I had an exceptionally [...]

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How To Make Money From Distributed Computing

Jesse Michelsen — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:29:43 +0000

I always like to share any ideas I have about making more money so here’s a pretty unconventional and very geeky method I came across a couple years back but finally got around to putting into action recently. Considering how geeky this method actually is to get started, yet how easy it is to maintain, [...]

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