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		<title>Cancel Your Cable TV and Keep Watching All Your Favorite Shows – Smooth Move</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six months ago, my fiancée and I watched a lot of TV. Any time House, LOST, Seinfeld, any Real Housewives, MTV's Made and True Life, or just about anything entertaining was on, we'd be glued to the couch.

Today we're still watching all our favorites . . . but we don't pay a dime for cable. One day in June, we called Comcast and asked them to cancel our cable (but leave the internet on!).

Here's what happened.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dollarback.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8699016&amp;post=57&amp;subd=dollarback&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving Family Fun for Free or Cheap</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving!  I hope you’re at home with loved ones, eating too much and loving every minute of it.

Thanksgiving comes with a lot of downtime, though—quality time spent with family, but not spent doing much.

Here’s a Thanksgiving bonus:  A few ideas to keep your fam entertained for free or for cheap!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dollarback.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8699016&amp;post=53&amp;subd=dollarback&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make the Most of Your 401K Plan</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/how-to-make-the-most-of-your-401k-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So your company offers a 401(K) plan—you might be in it already, you might not be.  Even if you're in, chances are good that the enrollment processed made your mind feel like mush, every fund description was in a foreign banking language, and you ended up just putting your money somewhere—maybe even in your company's default fund (probably not a good idea!).  You're not alone: 401(K)s confuse almost everybody.

But if you want to retire some day, your company's 401(K) is probably your best best!  If you're not in, you should get in. If you're in but aren't too sure where your money's going, now's the time to re-arrange your contributions.  Call it Fall Cleaning.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dollarback.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8699016&amp;post=49&amp;subd=dollarback&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mint.com Review</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/mint-com-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Keeping a personal budget is a pain. Making a note of every money exchange—both incoming and outgoing—in your day-to-day life gets tiring fast, and even though budgeting is vital to a money-happy life, keeping one yourself can stop some frugal hopefuls in their tracks. 

Why not simplify your budget-keeping by keeping it all online? You have plenty of free sites to choose from . . . but the golden media darling is Mint.com. Mint is mentioned any time anyone brings up budgeting—especially in finance journalism. It's been in Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites 2 years in a row, it's been named a top pick by Money Magazine, it's one of Kiplinger's best budgeting sites, it's won a Webby Award, and . . . well, the list goes on. Obviously, Mint is a winner.

So how does Mint.com fare as a real budgeting tool? Here's my blow-by-blow . . .
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		<title>Sell All Your Cars – Follow-up</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/sell-all-your-cars-%e2%80%93-follow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:19:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dollarback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My fiancée and I took a vacation to San Fran two weeks ago—but not before having one good financial fiasco at home.

She ordered a new pair of “shoes” off of kayakshed.com back in September.  They were back-ordered for a month and took even longer to actually ship.  By the time UPS got them to our area, we were scheduled to catch a plane the next morning.  And here’s where the fun begins.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dollarback.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8699016&amp;post=40&amp;subd=dollarback&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sell All Your Cars – Smooth Move</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/sell-all-your-cars-%e2%80%93-smooth-move/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you think back to the last time in your life when you lived—probably comfortably and happily—without a car? For plenty of you city dwellers, that time's right now. Some of you might be remembering college, or maybe a little window of time after college. And plenty of you haven't gone without wheels since you turned sixteen. You're sure you need your ride right now . . . and you're probably right.

But do yourself a favor: take a minute to imagine—in the context of your real current life—not having a car of any kind.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dollarback.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8699016&amp;post=37&amp;subd=dollarback&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open a Roth IRA and Keep More of Your Money</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/10/10/open-a-roth-ira-and-keep-more-of-your-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dollarback</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting your money making money is a beatiful thing, but any returns you get are sliced on tax day. If you made $500 in the stock market this year in a regular investment account, you can expect to see Uncle Sam take at least $125. And that sucks.

But there's an easy way to get around the annual cough-up of some of your earnings. It's a retirement account (gasp, wheeze), but unlike in a traditional IRA or a 401(k), your money's not locked away in a Roth IRA 'til you're too old to care.
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		<title>What&#8217;s More Important than Interest?</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/whats-more-important-than-interest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having your money making money is a great feeling. Knowing that just by setting aside a chunk of your cash—in an online savings account, a CD, an investing account, a Roth IRA, a 529, or what have you—you're earning more and more cash without having to lift a finger . . . this can get addictive.

But let's put interest in perspective.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dollarback.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8699016&amp;post=26&amp;subd=dollarback&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Think You Want Kids? Open a 529 Account NOW.</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/10/01/think-you-want-kids-open-a-529-account-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saving for retirement starting in your twenties is common practice: from the moment you get a “real job,” everyone tells you to put money in your 401K and take advantage of your job's matching policy—if your company's cool enough to have one.

But we're missing a big message that should be sent to young money-makers: it's the title of this post! If you think you want kids—and think you ever want to send them to college—you should open a 529 account now.
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		<title>How to (and How Not to) Save Money Shaving</title>
		<link>http://dollarback.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/how-to-and-how-not-to-save-money-shaving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The disposable razor industry is a shameful sham. You buy a $10 razor with 2 additional disposable heads, then have to pony up $20 in a few weeks when those heads are trashed. And in a few months, you're dipping inot the bank again. Oh—don't forget the shaving cream.

Don't. Do. This. There are dozens of easy and effective ways to avoid paying out the ears for a clean shave.

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