Updates12: Top Personal Finance Blogs Roundup

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Top Personal Finance Blogs Roundup - Bargaineering

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 09:38 AM PDT

Every few weeks a random person usually emails me with their latest list of “best frugal bloggers” or “best personal finance bloggers” and I usually ignore them. It’s not that I don’t enjoy a good superlative or two, it’s just that these lists often have an ulterior motive. That said, I didn’t respond that way when the guys at Money Crashers unveiled their top PF blogs list, which looked quite similar to Wise Bread’s more venerable Top 100 personal finance blogs list. The two are similar but not the same, each using a different equation to calculate awesomeness, but I’m honored that Bargaineering appears in the top ten of both.

Here are this week’s gems:

I’ve long argued that creating a budget is absolutely crucial in getting your finances on track but I’ve never explained how as elegantly as Jeremy has in his post on how to create your first budget.
We’ve been cooking a lot lately, mostly because we enjoy cooking and taking advantage of our local farmer’s market, so this latest Fresh Air show with Harold McGee was in our wheelhouse. It’s always interesting to learn the science behind cooking.
If there’s a tax cut and no one hears it, did it really happen? The trouble with cutting people’s taxes and not telling them is that you don’t get political points. If you cut them in a way that makes them very visible, people may not spend those cuts (which is the point of using them as stimulus). It’s quite a conundrum… it says something that President Obama went in the direction that helped the American economy the most, not the one that helped himself and the Democratic Party the most.
You still have time to open up a Roth IRA, Pete shares his thoughts on the Best place to open Roth IRA.
It’s a few weeks away but if you’re a Vet, here are a few Veteran's Day Discounts.
Flexo takes a look at some Mint data, some interesting stuff in there.

Anyone else remember the Super Mario Bros infinite 1-up trick? In an interview, Shigeru Miyamoto explained that it was included on purpose. Remember this trick?