Your daily money must-reads
Posted on June 18th, 2008 – 4:47 PMBy Kara McGuire
It’s easy to get into a rut. I’m in one lately where I make the same boring loop from money site to money site in search of the latest on the stock market and consumer finance.
The Wall Street Journal to Yahoo Finance to MSN Money and back again with a stop once a week or so for a peek at Filife.com, Pfblogs.org and The Consumerist.
Sigh.
What’s your personal finance information diet? Do you have a blog you read regularly or a writer you always check out? If you do, you know what to do.
13 Responses to "Your daily money must-reads"
I love reading the My Open Wallet blog. Scroll down and she has 84 $$ related blogs on her blog roll. I visit a new one each time I visit. Can’t go wrong.
http://www.myopenwallet.net/2007/06/lessons-learned-from-diet-books-how-to.html
DIY $$ Education
I like going to the CPA of MN site. Click on Information to the vast article collection they have. Go to Financial calendar for cute piggy bank monthly focus topic. Good stuff
http://www.mncpa.org/information/Manage-Your-Money/view.asp?id=365
What do other Penny Pinchers do?
http://www.creativefrugality.com/ Weekly topic and readers write in their suggestions on everything from party favors to insect control to expressions of love.
My reality Check: Updated National Debt (and articles)
http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/
In addition to the sites you name, there are a few places that I go to, if not daily, then on a regular basis:
Boston Gal’s Open Wallet, bostongals.com, a blog of a thirty-something getting out of debt but also looking at the big picture. msmoneysavvy.com. thesimpledollar.com. Prime Time money — ptmoney.com. CNN’s money section — from Money magazine. getrichslowly.org/blog. And a few frugality sites, including northerncheapskate.com.
I like to look at the blogrolls of sites I like. I’ve found some good sites that way, including a lot of these!
Reuters.com gets me news from a non-US perspective and market info right on the front page of the site. I’ve also recently come around to iGoogle (even though I knew about it a long time ago), which you can use to add widgets like market news and previews of all your e-mail accounts.
It’s not a pure money site, but slate.com frequently has great “Moneybox” articles, usually by Daniel Gross.
And of course, Ka-blog. 
I don’t get a lot of finance info online. My most reliable habit is the business section of the sunday new york times (dead trees edition).
I am a regular reader of the Bogleheads blog:
http://www.bogleheads.org/
This group is also know as the diehards group.
I ignore the mainstream news and
I focus on sights which have more complicated information.
Wade, can you share some of your favorite sites with us?
bigcharts.com
reuters.com
ft.com
Lately, I’ve hunkered down in cheapskate mode:
http://www.gasbuddy.com/ to find cheap gas.
http://www.walletpop.com/category/fantastic-freebies/ Like it says — fantastic (well, some of them) freebies. Today, it allowed me to join the prestigious Pringles National Consumer Advisory Panel … and get free Pringles!
I’m in the OC so i check out the OCR’s real estate blogs:
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/sections/blogs/
I have a payroll career and I like to checkout the payroll forums at:
http://www.payrolltalk.com/viewforum.php?f=9
and if you would like to know what your next check would look like after you make some W4 changes, here is a good tool:
http://www.paycheckcity.com/NetPayHRatesCalc/netpayHRatescalculator.asp
Daniel P. just reminded me of a good blog that provides links to freebies and other good deals…Hu$tler blog:
I regularly check 2 sites:
Yahoo Finance
and
The ‘members’ area of my financial newsletter; Sound Mind Investing: http://www.soundmindinvesting.com/
I’ve really enjoyed my subscription to a financial newsletter and have made/saved significantly more money than the ~$110/year subscription fee.
Jx2
