FIRE Finance: Sunday Review #9 - Money Terms, Alternative Incomes, Tax Tips and More! - A Top Personal Finance and Investing Blog for Early Retirement and Money Management!

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It was a fascinating week. We took a break from the cold weather for a warm retreat down south. The sun and its warmth rejuvenated us. So here are our recharged favorites of the week:

Mighty Bargain Hunter has created a useful list of seven pairs of easily confused money terms.

David from My Two Dollars shares his personal experiences in My Sources Of Alternative Income And How I Make Them Work For Me. It is a wonderful read for folks looking to get started on alternate income streams using the internet.

Harrison from Finandom presents some great Tax Tips for Online Business Owners.

NCN from No Credit Needed shares some tax savings tips in Trying To Decrease My Taxes, I Have Opened A SEP-IRA.

The Baglady has got it all sorted out about handling sweepstakes in Tips for Entering Sweepstakes and Getting Free Stuff.

Erik from Money Crashers shares 5 great tips on How To Budget With Irregular Income.

Colonel Cash from Money and Credit outlines the process of How To Correct an Error on your Credit Report.

Retro FIRE:

We welcome you to our current giveaway of Robert Shemin's book "How Come That Idiot's Rich & I'm Not?" This title will be released on March 4, 2008. So this is a fantastic opportunity to win this book totally FREE! We thank Robert for sending us a free copy which we could share with our readers ..........

We've released our traffic based rankings for Feb 2008's Top 100 Personal Finance Blogs based on monthly traffic data for Jan 2008. Unlike previous months, this month we notice that all three sources of traffic data have converged for most ranks. Notably GetRichSlowly is the no. 1 PF Blog according to the traffic data from Sitemeter, Compete and Quantcast. Congrats JD! The Simple Dollar has slipped to no. 2 wrt traffic data from all three sources ........

Top 5 Ways To Trim Our Grocery Bills: We decided to optimize our grocery expenses and pull the strings on our food budget even tighter. So we spent some time researching on ways to cut down our grocery bill. In the process we discovered some fascinating facts. Economic Research Service, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, has compiled data showing that an average American spends more than 30 percent of their monthly budget on food. If we crunch the numbers we'll see that our national grocery bill is more than $2 trillion annually ..........

Here are a bunch of links to the personal finance festivals and carnivals held over the week. Have a great week ahead.