My Financial Journey

I thought this would be a good place to highlight what I consider some of my favorite or best posts of 2007.

Get Rich!! Play the Lottery!! Somebody has to win!!
- my thoughts on the lottery.

The true cost of owning a home - or reasons why renting isn’t all that bad.
- was true before the housing bubble and is true after the housing bubble.

Save for tomorrow - but don’t forget to live today
- I can’t take the credit for this post, but probably the most powerful advice on my site.

I just don’t get it - what is the big deal about gas prices?
- Probably one of my favorite rants - stop complaining about gas prices

The fine line of frugality
- It can be a fine line sometimes.

Frugal cure for a sore throat
- probably not my best writing but certainly the most popular post on this site.

My Financial Journey’s pimp ride version 2
- still as pimp as the day I bought it. I’ve also had zero issues with the car since I bought it (setting myself up with that statement)

Why thinking you are smart enough to know where the market is going is so dangerous.
- please don’t adjust your retirement plan based on short term results or doom and gloom forecasting.

Another Financial Goal: My very own full court basketball court
- I’ve got to get working on this one.

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March was another good month for My Financial Journey.  Here are some of my favorite posts from the previous month.

March 5 - How to go about frugal landscaping - Part II
March 9 - I just don’t get it - what is the big deal about gas prices?
March 13 - Million Dollar Kids - Give me a break
March 17 - Frugal cure for a sore throat (92 comments and 4800+ diggs)
March 21 - What not to do with your tax return
March 23 - When lightening strikes
March 29 - My Financial Journey’s pimp ride version 2

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My article on How to cure a sore throat has been finding it’s way onto the sites of Reddit, Del.icio.us, and others, which means I’ve got a bunch of new people visiting my site.  For those of you who are new to MyFinancialJourney.com here are some of my more popular articles to give you a feel of the content you might run across this site if you stick around. 

• Reasons why you should not save for Retirement
• Get Rich!! Play the Lottery!! Somebody has to win
• The True Cost of Owning a Home
• My Financial Journey’s Pimp Ride
• I just don’t get it - what is the big deal about gas prices
• The fine line of Frugality

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February was a good month for My Financial Journey and here are some of my favorite posts from the previous month

• February   1 - Asset Allocation - If you are young why wouldn’t you be 100% stocks?
• February 12 - The true cost of owning a home - or reasons why renting isn’t all that bad.
• February 14 - How to go about frugal landscaping - Part I
• February 17 - Clothes as an investment??
• February 19 - The fine line of Frugality
• February 23 - Pay off Debt or Invest for Retirement
• February 27 - 20%+ guaranteed return on your money in 2 easy steps.

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FreeMoneyFinance is getting into the March Madness spirit by starting his own tournament featuring the 64 best articles in all personal finance land. Each personal finance blogger is allowed to submit 4 articles to the selection committee and the top 64 will get put into the bracket. From there it’s head to head competition until only one article remains. The winner gets all kinds of goodies and not to mention bragging rights for an entire year.

You have until the end of this weekend to submit your articles and the tournament kicks off Tuesday, March 6th.

Here are the four articles that I submitted to the competition. Stop by FreeMoneyFinance the week of March 6th and see if any of them made the tournament.
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Well it seems like this is the thing to do this time of year, so here goes. Here are the “best” posts I made this year.

Reasons why you should not save for Retirement - Probably my favorite article from 2006

Realistic Rate of Return series - I should really finish this up, should be about a 6-part series

Wal-Mart wallet photos for a whole lot less - Great way to get some really inexpensive wallet photos

$100,000 by Age 30 - Probably not the most educating or most well written article, but this has been a great help for me to get my retirement savings on track and I am constantly going back to it to figure out what I need to do next as far as adjusting my retirement savings.

Tracking my Net Worth - A good explanation of what that number in the upper hand corner of my blog really means and why I decided not to keep track of things like debt and Home equity

Frugal Lawncare - Part 1 - Was a fun experiment for me and I actually had pretty good results. Hopefully Harry Jones in the comments had similar results.

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