215th Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction

I am happy to host the 215th Edition of the Carnival of Debt Reduction. The Carnival of Debt Reduction is,

a weekly blog carnival that highlights posts on getting out of debt. Personal debt reduction progress reports and posts about reducing debt are what this carnival is all about!

All Financial Matters host the 214th Edition of

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Create Your Own Pension Using Whole Life Insurance

In order to fully understand this post I am going to have to ask you to put down your $19.95 Suze Orman book or shut off your podcast of Dave Ramsey – and give me a chance to describe and illustrate how to create your own Pension Using Whole Life Insurance before leaving me comments

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I Won a $1,000 - What am I going to Do With It?

I am not sure if it was fate, or what, but days after I read FCN’s, “What Would You Would Do with a $1,000” I actually won $1,000!   Actually, I won $1,260 through a 50/50 raffle for a buddy’s church ($20 ticket) but I told the church to keep $260 of it.  I am not

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Understanding and Determining your Testamentary Intent

I truly believe that everyone needs a will and have provided reason after reason why you need to create a Last Will and Testament ASAP.  These reasons include:

Proper Distribution of Assets – Both in terms fo what you want and what is most efficient
Guardianship Issues – Who is going to take care of children of you pass

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Obama Does a Television Commercial for D-Rated Celebrity George Lopez

This is not a Personal Finance or Estate Planning post, but rather is part of “Are you Freaking Serious Fridays” where I take the last day of the week just simply to bitch and complain about whatever topic I feel is necessary to complain about.

So I am watching Family Guy on TBS (don’t

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Paying Back Social Security to Increase Future Payments

Let’s say you are reaching age 62 and you are worried that your income stream is going to dry up, so you opt to start your Social Security Payments.  Everything is going swimmingly and then you come into a large sum of cash at age 64…now you don’t need your social security income anymore! You

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Carnival of Money Stories 2 #23

I take hosting a Carnival seriously;  I take it seriously because I hate reading other Carnivals that fail to keep the essence of the Carnival by allowing every single entry, regardless of applicability.   The Carnival of Money Stories’ mission is simple:

A weekly blog carnival where individuals share their stories/experiences with money

I have read every single

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Congress - Don't Worry About Actual Numbers

This is not a Personal Finance or Estate Planning post, but rather is part of “Are you Freaking Serious Fridays” where I take the last day of the week just simply to bitch and complain about whatever topic I feel is necessary to complain about.

The Tax Foundation posted The Revenue Impact of the Bacaus

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