Smart Money Daily is hosting this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance. Next week we’ll be hosting the Carnival right here on Optimized Living, so send all of your submissions to webmaster@optimizedliving.com.
Here are my personal favorites from this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance #13:
The Capitalist Blogger on Choosing an Online Broker
Sensible Mom on College Savings
frugal underground [...]
About a month ago I made some purchases in Canada using my Citi Dividend Card. Two weeks later I noticed a charge that showed up as PURCHASES*FINANCE CHARGE*FOREIGN and figured it must have been associated with those charges in Canada. Finally had a chance to call tonight and was told by the customer service rep [...]
Since the launch of AnnualCreditReport.com, I’ve been following a schedule of requesting both my credit report and my wife’s every 4 months. The most convenient way to do it is simply request it around Jan 1st, May 1st, and Sept 1st. This time I requested TransUnion. Unfortunately I could not request a copy online [...]
Over the weekend I broke out the old college ink jet printer, an HP Deskjet 930C, since I had a couple documents that needed to be printed in color. On my initial test print, both the black and color cartridges were not printing all that great. There were missing lines and just generally poor printing [...]