Fuzzy’s Financial Blog

Came across an article on Kiplinger today for Best 529 College-Savings Plans. While the best time to have hopped back into your childs 529 plan if you got out would of been at the bottom of the collapse try timing that and making sure you could survive without the money. Now would be the best […]

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I haven’t written in a while. Took a minor hit from the market fall. I had just hit making over $50 a month off of dividends in December and then in January I made $23. I now am back up to about $45 a month off of stock dividends. 3 of my 6 Prosper loans […]

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While checking the college savings programs I participate in I noticed that UPromise has come out with a new program. The are eCoupons and they get associated to your grocery store loyalty cards. What does this mean to you? Well now instead of just earning a little here and there off of your purchases you […]

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If you have not heard of social lending or peer to peer lending then you may be missing out on an opportunity to diversify your total investment portfolio. While there is various levels of risk in any investment lending money has its own risks and there are programs out there to help mitigate that risk and […]

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I came across this article today talking about “It’s time to rethink college debt” which I found to be very relevant. So many people today are taking nothing but student loans to fund their college education. While in the past this tended to be alright in today’s world you have to look at what your […]

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Ok so one of my pet projects has been saving for college. I believe in giving my children the chance to go that I didn’t have so I have been saving money in 529 plans. I not only put money into the accounts regularly I also use helper programs to get a little bit back […]

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Ok, so yesterday I was talking about college savings with a 529 plan. Today I came across this article on Kiplingers talking about diversifying your college savings. Which basically says that it would be a good idea to split your investing between a 529 saving plan and a 529 prepaid tuition plan.
A 529 savings plan […]

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