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Personal Finance web sites

Date: Mon Jan 04 2021 ; Tags: Personal Finance

Simple Living

http://www.simpleliving.net/ - "Tools, Examples & Contacts For Conscious, Simple, Healthy & Restorative Living"

City Homesteading http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cityhomestead/ - "City homesteading is slightly different from Country Homesteading, but only because of location, not heart. By learning as many skills as one can, we can hopefully reduce our ecological footprint right here in the city. Learning to grow and bloom right where we are planted, reducing our debt and learning to save so that someday we may buy our "small bit of earth" in the country if we so chose , and be better prepared to live there. The Skills we learn now will make our lives richer and fuller as we grow our own organic vegetables, raise city livestock, do our own plumbing, electrical, and car repairs."

Frugal Friends http://groups.yahoo.com/group/frugal_friends/ - "A place where you can get support to lower your grocery budget, tighten your belt or your budget or just exchange frugal ideas. This is a friendly support group that welcomes newbies, tightwads, cheapskates and anyone else committed to trying to reduce debt and live more frugal and fulfillng lives"

Getting out of debt

Debt-Anon http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Debt-Anon/ -

Credit Repair http://groups.yahoo.com/group/credit_repair/ - "Talk about credit issues and debt problems"

Addicted to Spending http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/addictedtospending/ - "This is a group for people who are addicted to spending or for people who think they might be addicted to spending. People hear "shopping addict" or "compulsive spender" and they may laugh about it, but it destroys lives and strains relationships with friends and loved ones as your credit card debt mounts. You feel depressed if you can't spend and you spend to help yourself feel happy and fulfilled."

Shopping Addicts Support (SAS) http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/shopping_addicts/ - "This is a group for people who are addicted to shopping or think they might be addicted to shopping to help and support each other. People hear "shopping addict" and they laugh but it destroys lives as your credit card debt mounts. You feel depressed if you can't go shopping, and you shop to help yourself feel happy and fulfilled."

SPENDERS http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/spendersda/ - "SPENDERS, is registered Debtors Anonymous group #450. "Debtors Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from compulsive debting. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop incurring unsecured debt. There are no dues or fees for D.A. membership; we are self-supporting through our own contributions. "

Debtors Anonymous http://debtorsanonymous.org/ - Recovery from problems with debt. (see also http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/DebtorsAnonymous/)

Investing

finance.yahoo.com: Massive finance research site run by Yahoo.

indexfunds.com: A resource web site studying mutual funds or ETF's which invest in the standard stock indexes.

ETFConnect.com: A resource web site specializing in ETF's. These act as mutual funds in that they are a holding company for some set of investments, but trade easily on the open market just like any stock.

InvestorLinks.com: A large directory specifically covering financial resources around the Internet.

QuantumOnline.com: A resource web site specializing in stocks of interest to "income investors". These stocks are REIT's, preferred stocks, royalty trusts, and the like. They are all characterised by paying high dividends.

http://stockcharts.com/ - "Simply the web's best financial charts". Also see http://stockcharts.com/education/ which provides an education in "technical analysis" (TA). While TA completely ignores studying factual information about the company, and is purely about which companies have the best or worst momentum in their stock prices, it is a useful technique to finding entry points when desiring to buy a stock.

www.DividendAchievers.com - This is the home of Mergents Dividend Achievers index. With this index they track stocks that have been paying, and regularly increasing, dividends for over 10 years.

investopedia.com - "Investopedia is your complete, unbiased, and easy-to-understand educational guide to investing and personal finance. The site has the biggest financial dictionary on the web, hundreds of articles and tutorials, and an investing simulator where where you can practice managing a portfolio without putting your money at risk."