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College Money Network wants this year to be a better year financially and give you the chance to win some cool stuff in the process. We have decided to throw a giveaway with over $200 worth of prizes available.

What are the prizes?

• 4GB iPod Nano
• $50 cash
• $20 cash
• Copy of The 4-Hour Workweek
• $10 eBay gift certificate
• One-year magazine subscriptions:

1. Young Money
2. Kiplinger’s
3. SmartMoney Magazine
4. Money Magazine

How do you enter?

there are several ways to enter! Al the details can be found on the Back To School Giveaway page at the College Money Network. All entries must be received by August 31, 2008 at 11:59 PM PST. Other rules and restrictions can be found on the giveaway page.

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It’s been a great week for me. I’m done budgeting my last paychecks and my car loan balance is down to $1800. I still have money in my bank account for food and gas the next couple of weeks and I intend on spending it wisely.

Here are some posts fro this past week that I enjoyed.

• Grad Girl has her first lesson in Free Fun. She shares a lesson in preparation.; I had a similar experience.
• Are We Ready for a Cashless Society? Broke Grad Student asked the question and looked at the responses given. I as amazed how polarized the opinions were. It’s an issue that I believe we’ll continue to face as use cards more and more in our financial transactions.
• Poorer Than You wants to “Know Where the Money Goes”. Actually Stephanie wants you to know where your money goes. I’m going to try this by using Google Spreadsheets. I’m interested in seeing I do.
• I use Google Analytics with this site as I try to improve its usefulness. Jennifer shares what terms bring people to her site. She has a most bizarre search term.
• If you’re a personal who love to examine the ethics of different situation, try MFA or Bust‘s post on the Ethical Cheapskate. Better yet, read and share it with others to have a real discussion.
• Spilling Buckets (our newest College Money Network members!) ask an important and self-examining question in The abandonment of work life balance: True job security. I’m happy that they’ve joined and this post is a great example way having them makes the network even better.

The College Money Network has launched!

College Money Network Launches

I recently joined the College Money Network, a fantastic group of personal finance bloggers focusing on college students and graduates. I encourage you to check out their blogs this week. It’s amazing while we have the similar circumstances on money and college, we have such a collection of different views.

What’s our purpose?

The College Money Network is a diverse group of college students, grad students, and recent graduates who blog about personal finance in a way that’s easy for other college students and twenty somethings to relate. By forming a network, we hope to provide a single location where college students and twenty somethings can visit for the best information on personal finance.

Please check out all the blogs, I think you’ll like them. I’m really excited about this and hope you will be too.