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What's More Important: An Emergency Fund or Being Debt Free?

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Having an emergency fund is one of the most important steps to financial freedom, but if you listen to some personal finance pundits, it's not as important as being debt free. (Dave Ramsey, I'm looking at you.)
When you're financially free, you're out of debt and have a 3-6 month emergency fund, but when you're just [...]

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Lessons Learned from a 21-Year-Old Lottery Winner

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What would you do if, at the age of 19, you won $1 million on a scratch off lottery ticket?
Probably a lot. A vacation here, a donation there, maybe a gift to your closest relatives, and save the rest for the future, right?
That's the situation Louis Jay found himself in two years ago when the [...]

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Ask the Readers: What's Your Favorite Personal Finance Book?

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As part of our never-ending journey to learn as much as we can about money management, investing and personal finance, you've likely read a few books that really taught you something or made you see the topic in a whole new manner.
The beautiful thing is that there are so many books to read. The problem [...]

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How the Intuit Acquisition Has Changed Mint

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When Mint.com was acquired by Intuit in September, a number of users and bloggers were worried about how the site would change.
Would it become difficult to use? Would the corporate mindset affect Mint's innovations?
Not so, says Aaron Patzer, former Mint CEO and now Intuit's vice president and general manager of the personal finance group, in [...]

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Money Management: The Amateur Financier

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Welcome to week 6 of Money Management by Personal Finance Bloggers! First up, we chatted with Roger of The Amateur Financier.
Previous interviews: Poorer Than You, Budgets are $exy, Blunt Money, Mighty Bargain Hunter, Financial Freak Show, PT Money, Moolanomy, No Debt Plan, ToughMoneyLove and Gen X Finance.
How do you spend: cash, debit or credit?
Mostly credit, [...]

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Money Management: Poorer Than You

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With our second interview of week 5 of Money Management by Personal Finance Bloggers, we're talking to Stephanie of Poorer Than You.
Previous interviews: Budgets are $exy, Blunt Money, Mighty Bargain Hunter, Financial Freak Show, PT Money, Moolanomy, No Debt Plan, ToughMoneyLove and Gen X Finance.
How do you spend: cash, debit or credit?
I use my credit [...]

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Money Management: Budgets are Sexy

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It's time to start week 5 of Money Management by Personal Finance Bloggers! Today, we're speaking with J. Money, who runs Budgets are $exy.
Previous interviews: Blunt Money, Mighty Bargain Hunter, Financial Freak Show, PT Money, Moolanomy, No Debt Plan, ToughMoneyLove and Gen X Finance.
How do you spend: cash, debit or credit?
As much as I can [...]

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