Monday Jumpstart to Personal Finance & Credit Report News

Posted on September 6th, 2010

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Happy Labor Day!

One particular labor of love, that from a mother–who happens to be a financial planner–to her son, was brought to life as series of personal finance tips and tricks.

A Financial Planner’s Letter To Her College-Bound Son, mentioned on The New York Times’ Bucks Blog, reminds rookie consumers important personal finance lessons, such as not to lend borrow money from friends and to enjoy the investment of higher education.

Enjoy the following roundup from some of our favorite blogs and websites discussing personal finance and credit. Cheers to the start of a great week!

Personal Finance News

Earning cash on one of those cool online cashback shopping sites? Then read The Digerati Life’s 3 Things To Do With Your Online Cashback Earnings and make the most of your cashback!
Avoid these personal finance “tips” at all costs! Check out Studenomics’ post, Dumb Money Strategies Exposed.
Fabulous Freebies 2010, from Kiplinger, loads you full of fun, free stuff to carry you through the rest of 2010.
20Something Finance writes a useful post for all of us in these hard times, with 5 Ways To Recession-Proof Yourself.
20 Rules To Live By For Cheapskates, from WalletPop, gives you the frugal commandments to live by to put more change in your piggybank.

Credit Report & Credit Scores News

Having Too Much Available Credit Puts You At Risk, warns Own The Dollar blog.
How To Get Two Free Credit Reports A Year, brought to you by Bargaineering, might be available to you depending on where you live.
Check out My Fox Houston’s informative video on 10 Myths About Credit Reports.
When Is A Credit Score Good Enough, asks DoughRoller. Good question! Read on and find out.
ABC Good Morning America discusses how to protect yourself When Corporate Cards Hurt Personal Credit.