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Book Review: One Year To An Organized Financial Life

An unbiased book review of One Year To An Organized Financial Life by Regina Leeds and Russell Wild.

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Book Review: The Dip by Seth Godin

Ever feel like quitting or giving up? Perhaps a job, or a career, or a relationship seems too hard and walking away seems preferable? Been there. Done that. But how to quit and still be successful? Enter Seth Godin’s little book, The Dip. A highly successful businessman, marketing guru, and blogger, Godin knows a thing [...]

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Review: Moneydance 2008 (a Quicken alternative)

I’ve been doing some dancing lately. My dance repertoire is pretty limited. I’m not really into Salsa, Jive, or Tango. I have a hunch I’d be pretty good at the Foxtrot though. But despite my lack of formal dance training, I have been know to jump for joy when figuring out my financials. You might [...]

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Review: PearBudget Beta

Creating a budget just got sexy, fun, and delicious. I just took a bite out of PearBudget Beta, a web-based application for creating a household spending plan and record. PearBudget is created on the success of the popular PearBudget Spreadsheet, which has been downloaded around the interweb over 100 thousand times. PearBudget is a simple [...]

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Book Review: Personal Finance for Dummies

I’m not really a dummy. I don’t think you’re a dummy either. I’ve never been attracted to the “Dummies” series due to my anti-dummy vanity I suppose. To be honest, I never liked the feeling of buying a putrid yellow book from a store cashier and admitting to certain subject matter dummydom. I’m over it. [...]

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Review: StudioTax 2007

I must love doing my taxes. This is the second time I’ve done them this year. My first tax attempt involved UFile Standard 2007, which I reviewed (and didn’t like to be honest). Since trying UFile, I’ve had a number of readers suggest I try StudioTax 2007. From what I can tell, the company behind [...]

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Returning UFile 2007 – Trying StudioTax

I don’t like returning stuff. After careful consideration though I’ve decided to send back UFile 2007. My main beef with the application is the poor handling of medical expenses. Since I have carry forward medical expenses from 2006, I need to calculate the best 12 month period ending in 2007. UFile just doesn’t handle this [...]

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