Weekly Roundup: September 22

This week was pretty hectic for me both at work and school, so I didn’t get a chance until today to look over some articles from my favorite blogs and a few others.

Relationships

• Free Money Finance’s guest post was about Discussing Family Finances.

Motivation

• DINKS did a fantastic job reviewing the American Dream (it’s not riches, but the effort).
• Gather Little By Little encourages us not to give in to peer pressure about finances.
• Krystal at Give Me Back My Five Bucks is closer towards her goal of owning a condo.

Finances

• Lazy Man and Money included his portfolio that is easy to maintain.
• Jorge from My Adventures into the Street gave an update on the market’s reaction after the Fed lowered the interest rate.
• Saving Diva at Saving for a Home of My Own includes a post about how your FICO score is computed.
• The Simple Dollar shows how to save money on your electric bill by cutting electricity phantom.

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