Weekend Review #9 - From The Hobbit's Money Lessons To Dealing With Debt Collectors

[This post is written and copyrighted by FIRE Finance (http://firefinance.blogspot.com).]

Feb 27, 2009: One of our friends gave birth to a healthy baby boy this week. The look of deep peace on the little one's face is so refreshing and invigorating. How we wish some of its pristine innocence would rub off on us who are enmeshed in the ways of the world. In that spirit here are our fresh favorites of the week:

• Pimp Your Finances: David has written a beautiful article - What Would Bilbo Do? 14 money lessons from The Hobbit.

• Dividends Value: Here is a list of Ten Dividend Stocks With 50+ Years of Consecutive Increases.

• Money Saving Blog: Kathryn has a great list of twenty things you can sell or re-use that you already have in your home. Well we do have quite a few things that are in Kathryn's list. So we'd better tighten up our belts and get the selling act started.

• I Pick Up Pennies: Abigail has a rather comprehensive and informative guide to dealing with debt collectors. It definitely pays to be prepared.

Retro FIRE

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Here is the list of carnivals and festivals we participated this week. Have a nice weekend :).

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