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		<title>Make Your Finance System Paperless</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/make_your_finance_system_paperless-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 21:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal finance blogger J.D. Roth is on the road towards making his money system completely paperless.  Direct deposit, automatic savings transfers, Quicken, and auto bill pay gets most paper out of the way.  Then Roth scans any paperwork that does come in to PDF with our favourite scanner&#8212;the Fujitsu ScanSnap&#8212;and then he shreds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Turn $450 a Month into $1 Million</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/how_to_turn_450_a_month_into_1_million-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you started investing $448 a month at 30 years old, Yahoo Finance says that a reasonable 8% return would put your savings over the million dollar mark in 35 years. The problem, of course, is finding that extra $450. To help ferret out every quarter in your couch cushions, the article suggests seven different [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Words on How to Invest Well</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/seven_words_on_how_to_invest_well-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 20:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gina Trapani</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York Times personal finance columnist Ron Lieber offers a seven-word guide to choosing how you invest your money. Lieber writes: 
The author Michael Pollan offered an elegant seven-word mantra in his best-selling book &#8220;In Defence of Food&#8221; that provides clarity amid the bounty of choices on supermarket shelves: &#8220;Eat food. Not too much. Mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Your Budget Easier to Grasp with Targeted Accounts</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/make_your_budget_easier_to_grasp_with_targeted_accounts-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/make_your_budget_easier_to_grasp_with_targeted_accounts-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 22:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Personal Finance blog Funny About Money tweaks the concept of a &#8220;freedom account&#8221;&#8212;a single stash for irregular-but-common expenses like car repair and clothing&#8212;and comes up with targeted accounts. That means opening up a money market or similar small account for each kind of expense, based on how often it occurs, rather than track a bunch [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mint Tracks Your Investment Portfolio</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/mint_tracks_your_investment_portfolio-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/mint_tracks_your_investment_portfolio-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 22:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mint, the web-based financial management application that took us by storm a few months back, is adding investment tracking to their already impressive feature set. Mint&#8217;s investments, currently in beta, tracks everything from the performance of your Roth IRA to the value of your 401k, all from its attractive, easy-to-understand interface. As with Mint in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare for Irregular Expenses with a Freedom Account</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/prepare_for_irregular_expenses_with_a_freedom_account-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/prepare_for_irregular_expenses_with_a_freedom_account-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 21:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In addition to your traditional checking, savings, and emergency accounts, financial weblog Get Rich Slowly suggests setting up another money bucket for irregular or unexpected expenses. Sock away money in a &#8220;Freedom Account&#8221; for expenses like clothes, vacations, and car maintenance. Setting this money apart from your regular monthly bills ensures you keep a tighter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make a Master Information Document for Worst Case Scenarios</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/make_a_master_information_document_for_worst_case_scenarios-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/make_a_master_information_document_for_worst_case_scenarios-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kevin Purdy</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[backup]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Simple Dollar financial blog offers up a guide to creating a &#8220;Master Information Document&#8221;&#8212;a single piece of paper that&#8217;s locked away securely, explained only to family and very close friends, and which has all the information someone would need to put your finances and will in order if something happened to you. Blogger Trent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tackle Your Debt with Micropayments</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/tackle_your_debt_with_micropayments-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/tackle_your_debt_with_micropayments-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 21:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Pash</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who&#8217;s dealt with significant debt knows how difficult it is to write out a large cheque every month to pay it off. Instead, financial weblog FiveCentNickel suggests paying off debt in micropayments:
In short, pay what you can afford, and then scrape together whatever else you can during the month and send in multiple, smaller [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apply the $100 a day rule to resist impulse buying</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/apply_the_100_a_day_rule_to_resist_impulse_buying/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/05/apply_the_100_a_day_rule_to_resist_impulse_buying/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 01:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Stokely</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Impulse buying can affect anyone, but if you&#8217;re tech minded, the things we can be tempted to buy can be especially expensive.Here&#8217;s a tactic suggested by the No Credit Needed blog: a self-imposed cooling off period on impulse buying decisions, also known as the $100 a day rule. Basically, for every $100 that tempting toy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for spending less and saving more</title>
		<link>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/04/tips_for_spending_less_and_saving_more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2008/04/tips_for_spending_less_and_saving_more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Stokely</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Consumerist lists 10 ways to really save money, which include one of my tried and true standbys, rolling your credit card debt over to a new provider which offers you a 6 month interest free period. Of course, the aim should be to pay it off before the honeymoon period elapses and you revert [...]]]></description>
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