January's Best of FIRE Finance - 2012

Jan 31, 2012: January, the first month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, is named for Janus (Ianuarius), the God of the Doorway. In Latin, the word for door is "ianua" - January is the door to the year.

The name has its beginnings in Roman mythology. Traditionally, the original Roman calendar consisted of 10 months which summed up to 304 days. Winter was considered a month less period! Around 713 BC, King Numa Pompilius, is supposed to have added the months of January and February. This made the Roman calendar equal a standard lunar year which consisted of 355 days. The flower of this month is carnation or snowdrop.

To continue with names, it's fun to observe that January had several interesting ones:

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TurboTax Quicken Bundle 2011, 2012 - $25 OFF Special Discount Coupon Deal

GoodDayJan 27, 2012: TurboTax and Quicken (Intuit Inc.) have tied up together to offer some great Quicken TurboTax Bundles. Now you can track your income and spending in one place and enjoy a faster tax prep in one go.

For a limited time Amazon is offering a special rebate which will save you $25 when you buy a Quicken and TurboTax bundle (Combo Deal). This offer expires April 30, 2012.

To qualify for an instant rebate of $25, select one each of the TurboTax and Quicken downloadable products. On the final order checkout page, you'll see your savings of $25 on any qualifying Quicken title. Check them out to boost your savings!

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Top Traffic Referrers for FIRE Finance - Dec 2011

Jan 26, 2012: December was a fun month since it brought in holidays filled with the spirit of sharing. It's always exciting to choose gifts for our loved ones. The beauty of pure joy shared with our near and dear ones is unparalleled. We hope you had a fabulous time too :).

We're really thankful to our readers and the pf community who sent traffic our way in the holidays. Here's our top traffic referrers for the month of December:

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Top 5 Freebie Websites

Jan 24, 2012: We like to collect freebies. Over the years this liking has developed into a creative hobby which has a tidy annual payoff worth hundreds of dollars in savings. But this habit involves investment of time and energy. Too bad that it's not free. We guess somewhere we've got to pay in some sort of currency for what we get in life! In short, nothing in the universe is really free.

While searching for freebies of various kinds we found a bunch of useful websites who have already done the hard work of locating and listing freebies available at a given point of time. Makes our job easy and all the more fun. Now all we have to do is browse through their findings to locate the stuff we need. Here are our top five freebie websites.

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Equifax Promotion Code 2012, USA, Canada - Up to 17% OFF - Equifax Coupon

GoodDayIf you are looking for ways to monitor your credit scores (Equifax, Experian and Transunion or FICO score), get detailed credit reports, simulate actions to see how you can improve your credit scores or get a handle on identity theft, then Equifax's suite of personal credit products is the way to go. On the other hand if you are about to apply for a housing loan then you can save several thousands of dollars by monitoring your FICO score and applying when your FICO score is at its peak.

Whatever be your need, here are some equifax promo codes that you can use to save your hard earned money.

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Three Good Habits of Successful Retirees

Jan 19, 2011: Vanguard's chairman and CEO Jack Brennan has nearly three decades of valuable experience in investing at this great firm. He has observed that successful long term investors share some common traits. Here is our spin to his observations.

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TurboTax Discount Codes 2011, 2012: Up to 43% OFF + FREE eFile - TurboTax Deals, TurboTax Discount Coupons

GoodDayJan 27, 2012: TurboTax is the leading tax software for filing taxes. So we were glad to find some good TurboTax deals which are offering up to 40% in savings on TurboTax 2011 software. It's best to maximize our savings. The more we keep our hard earned dollars in our pockets the better off we are :).

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Upto 40000 Bonus American Airlines Miles - Citi Platinum Select AAdvantage World Master Credit Card Review

Flying with AAdvantage miles is really cool, it saves money and takes you to great destinations. To make the experience of flying FREE with AAdvangtage miles really sweet, Citi has come out with a great offer. You can now earn 30,000 American Airlines AAdvantage bonus miles after $750 in purchases within the first 4 months of card membership.

It does not end there. You can receive a one-time $100 statement credit for the first eligible American Airlines purchase you make within the first 12 months of your card membership. After you spend $5,000 in purchases during the first 6 months of card membership, you can earn an additional 10,000 AAdvantage bonus miles. That'd bring your total miles booty to 40,000 American Airlines Miles. What else?

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Upto 35% OFF - QuickBooks Pro 2012, 2011 Discounts, Coupons, Downloads

GoodDayQuickbooks Pro is one of the most popular accounting software packages in the small business segment. The latest edition, Quickbooks Pro 2012, comes with new features that help a business owner to get a quick view of his invoices, billing, and other important tasks in a new calendar format. Other new goodies include the ability to export your QuickBooks data to Excel & save your formatting for future reports, set up Memorized Transactions for recurring invoices, estimates and billing.

Here are some cool quickbooks pro discounts that will help save your hard earned dollars.

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20% OFF - OfficeMax Coupon Codes | Promotional Codes | Discounts - 2012

Here are some great OfficeMax coupons that can come in handy if you are planning to make some big ticket purchases for office supplies. These coupons from OfficeMax can give you substantial savings if you are planning to buy tax or personal finance software. We hope that these Office Max coupons help save your hard earned dollars.

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Stop Credit Card Payments - What happens after that?

Ever tempted to just stop paying your credit card bills? I mean, what's the worst that could really happen? Here is an infographic to explain how your creditors might retaliate if you stop sending them money each month. (Hint: the pipes get rustier and the rats get uglier the further down you go.) Don't let this happen to you!

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