Spring is in the air, and this means that it's time to dust the blinds, quit your job, set up a home office, and pay down your credit cards. Or just read through some of the best personal finance posts of the week and save vicariously through them.
- Trent at The Simple Dollar offers some insight as to how he got started as one of the most popluar personal finance bloggers on the web.
- The Digerati Life gives some great tips on how to set up a home office.
- Urban gardening and living off the land when there isn't that much of it - impossible? Donna Freedman at MSN Money says it can be done.
- Confused about the "Making Work Pay" Tax Credit? Kiplinger explains the 5 key things you need to know.
- If medical bills are about to overwhelm you, have you ever considered haggling over them? Bargaineering tells you how.
- Since no one can afford to pay for college anymore, it's time to get your 5-year old started on their scholarship applications (OK, Debt Free Scholar isn't THAT snarky about it, with 10 tips for scholarship apps)
- Baffled by the Making Work Pay tax credit? Kiplinger explains it to you. Because they're nice.
- Christian PF clues you into 6 things you can buy that will pay for themselves in a year.
- Have you been wondering if you qualify for a new mortgage under the Make Housing Affordable Act? Gen X Finance tells you where to go to figure it all out.
- Earth Day got you thinking about green investing? Why green-trending business investing might not be worth your money, from Moolanomy.
- Weakonomics points out that even if you still have a job, your insurance premiums will probably go up (it's the economy, stupid).
- Dumb Little Man shares 5 commonly-held work-out and health-related fallacies that may change the way you exercise.
- Man v Debt lists four ways that credit card companies try to squeeze more out of you, originally posted on Yahoo.
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