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« Previous EntriesThe Winners of the “Prosperity Classics” Giveaway
Friday, May 2nd, 2008The randomly-selected winners of the Prosperity Classic Giveaway are:
#51 - Carla
#69 - Bekka
Congratulations to both! There will be lots more giveaways to come! I promise!
NOTE: I think the winner of every giveaway I have hosted has been randomly-selected. I use that method because I think I don’t want to be accused […]
A New Money Website for Federal Employees
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008After my interview on the Your Turn last week, I was talking with Francis Rose. He told me that he was entering the blogging world with a money blog aimed to help federal employees. I told Francis to send me a link whenever his blog was up and running and that I […]
I Was On “Your Turn with Mike Causey” This Morning
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008Mike Causey and Francis Rose were kind enough to have me on their show, Your Turn with Mike Causey, on Federal News Radio this morning. Overall I think I did an okay job. I was pretty nervous as I am not used to being on live radio. It’s much different from blogging, […]
Announcing the Winner of “Poor Charlie’s Almanack”
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008I meant to announce this yesterday but ran out of time.
The winner of the Poor Charlie’s Almanack Giveaway is:
Commenter #52 - JSB of JustSqueakingBy
Congrats to JSB! I hope you enjoy the book.
For the rest of you…
Thanks VERY MUCH for all the constructive comments regarding what you liked/disliked about this blog. Your […]
AFM Gets a Face Lift
Sunday, April 13th, 2008Welcome to the new look of AllFinancialMatters!
After reading the comments left on the Poor Charlie’s Almanack Giveaway post, I decided it was time for a change. This is a work-in-progress and is far from the finished product. You can expect some more changes over the next few days or so as […]
LAST DAY to Sign up for the “Poor Charlie’s Almanack” Giveaway!
Sunday, April 13th, 2008FYI - I’ll be announcing the winner of the Poor Charlie’s Almanack Giveaway tomorrow. If you haven’t entered the giveaway yet, you still have a chance. Just go to this post and leave a comment. Be sure and remember my two rules:
1. You must be a resident of the U.S. or Canada, […]
Money Magazine Thinks AllFinancialMatters is ‘Most Sensible’ Blog
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Thanks to Money Magazine for picking AllFinancialMatters as the ‘most sensible’ blog in their upcoming “100 Best…” issue. That’s quite an honor.
AFM was picked along with GetRichSlowly (most inspiring) and MyMoneyBlog (most voyeuristic).
Dang! Now I have a sensible reputation to uphold!
ANNOUNCEMENT: My RSS Feed is Down
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008A reader noticed that my feed has been down. I have NO IDEA what the problem is but I’m working on it. You can still get my feed by using this feed address:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AllFinancialMatters
UPDATE: Okay, the feed (AllFinancialMatters.com/feed) should be back up and running. Sorry for the problems.
Getting Kicked Off Google Hurts!
Monday, March 31st, 2008Last week, I recieved the following email from Google:
Dear site owner or webmaster of allfinancialmatters.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: Smart Money Needs Your Help on Bank Fees
Monday, March 24th, 2008I received the following email this afternoon from Lisa Scherzer at Smart Money:
Hi JLP,
I’m a writer at SmartMoney.com. You helped me over a year ago with a story and I’m hoping you might help again. I’m working on a story this week about the rise in bank fees. Have you had any personal experience with […]



