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May 2012
- How to Avoid Falling for High Pressure Sales Tactics
- The Three Musketeers: My Dad's Medical Team
- What the movie pursuit of happyness can teach you about personal finance
- Summer Jobs
- Should you buy Supplemental Unemployment Insurance
- 6 Things to Know When Starting a New Job
April 2012
- How to Save Money on Hotel Rooms
- Why My Husband Hates The NFL Draft
- Soaring Tuition Costs... at Preschool?
- Carnival of Retirement
- How Playing Monopoly Can Improve Your Financial Knowledge
- The Cost of Jury Duty
- Our House On The Market: Month Two
- Give Yourself Financial Hope
- Why You Should Eliminate Your Tax Refund
- DIY Satisfaction and Savings
- Perfectionism On The Job: What It's Costing You
March 2012
- How Important is Your Credit Score?
- Get Ahead at Work – Build a Star Trek Team
- Hey, Jealousy: A Case Of Professional Envy
- Five Simple Work Fixes
- What The American Employee Can Learn From Peyton Manning
- Carnival of Financial Planning - Money Management Edition #228 - March 16, 2012
- Can You Learn to Delay Gratification?
- Five Things You Must Know About Freelancing
- Managing commuting costs
- What Will Be Your Greatest Accomplishment?
- Our House On The Market: Month One
- 5 Things to Consider Before Deciding To Pay off Debt or Invest
- Spring Break
February 2012
- Fellowes 79Ci shredder review
- If Time Is Money, What's Yours Worth?
- WHICH TYPE OF HOME LOAN IS BETTER? ADJUSTABLE RATE OR FIXED RATE
- I Hate Tax Prep Time
- I Want To Quit My Job: Leaving Work Without Burning Bridges
- Taking advantage of employer sponsored education programs
- The $10 a Week Difference
- The Fork In My Husband's Career Path
- 8 Reason Why Renting is Better Than Owning a Home
- Understanding Company Stock Awards
- The Definition of Broke: What Does It Mean?
- The Most Painful Annuity
- Maximizing salaries and raises
January 2012
- Simple Home Maintenance Anyone Can Do
- PhD Programs: Are They Worth It?
- What should you buy in January/February?
- 7 Hidden Costs of Buying a New Car
- Need a $100,000 a year Job? Be a Butler and Earn Big Bucks
- Reasserting Your Life When Overeducated, In Debt, and Underemployed
- What does your credit report say about you?
- Five Ways to Save Money and Get Fit at Work
- Is online learning the right choice?
- Yakezie Carnival : Better late than never edition
- Steps to Mortgage Refinancing
- How to Deliver an Effective Presentation
- How to Prepare to Give an Effective Presentation
- How to make your business more green and planet friendly
- How to Design an Effective Presentation
December 2011
- Financial considerations for online learning
- How to Manage Your Monthly Expenses
- Setting SMART Goals
- Woman's Work
- Get Your Accomplishments Noticed
- Four Things to Know About Retirement Distributions
- Tips To Keep Holiday Spending In Check
- Yakezie Carnival
- Selling Gold Is Not As Easy As It Seems
- Debunking some common myths about online learning
- End of Year Tax Tips
- Tips to Travel on a Budget
- How Stores Trick Us Into Spending More
November 2011
- The Dos and Don'ts of Using Industry Jargon
- Holiday Travel Tips
- Budgeting in Retirement
- Money Tools For A Simplified Life
- Don't Let the Holidays Get in the Way of Your Career
- Thanksgiving on a Budget
- Skills for Online Learning
- Part Time Business In Your Spare Time
- The Case for Cooking - Cost of Your Thanksgiving Meal
- What Does Suze Orman Know About Money Management
- Six Reasons to Share Your Knowledge at Work
October 2011
- Managing vs Micromanaging Your Money
- Should You Intentionally Go Into Student Loan Debt?
- Should I Start a Family Investment Club?
- Graduation Gift Ideas
- How to Squeeze in Some Exercise
- What to Do With all these Nuts?
- Steps to Be Your Own Boss
- Do You Fit the Portrait of a Millionaire?
- How to Market Yourself
- ROI From Experiences vs. Things
September 2011
- Ten Best Money-Saving Apps For Managing Your Finances
- $100,000 a Year Professions
- Tips for Graduating Debt Free
- Certification vs. Degree: Which Is Better?
- Moving Up the Career Ladder
- Career Tips for New College Grads
- Yakezie Carnival : Capitol Building edition
- Sleep your way to success
- Use Continuing Education to Maximize Professional Opportunities
- Emergency Fund for the Self Employed
- 7 Things You'll Need for a Home Based Business
- How to Get a Deal on Group Hotel Reservations
- What to Consider Before Blogging for Cash
- Labor day roundup
- Effective marketing techniques for your start-up
- College Freshman – Start Your Career Search!
August 2011
- Private Student Loans: What Lenders Won't Tell You
- Legitimate Work at Home Options
- Celebrating Anniversaries on a Budget
- Get What You Need – by Handling Tough Conversations
- Increase Productivity with a Functional Home Office
- Laziness costing you money?
- Too good to be true car loans
- Stay cool for less
- Why I Work for the Government
- A time I splurged and I am glad I did
July 2011
- The Landscape of Viewing Services – Still Paying for Cable?
- Big sale is not equal to great deal
- Yakezie Summer love #1
- The Value of an Idea
- Cut Your Lunch Spending Without Brown Bagging It
- Now available at a library near you...
- How to Cope When You Hate Your Job
- How to save money - 1000+ ideas from the Yakezie Network
- Blog Carnival - What, Why, When & How?
June 2011
- Walt Disney World Trip report part 2
- Lessons from my father. Happy father's day!
- Walt Disney World Trip report part 1
- If we could have one financial do-over, what would it be and why?
- Walt Disney World : Random thoughts
May 2011
- To coupon or not to coupon
- The MAY 21: 2011 APOCALYPSE is Bogus: But It's Still a Great Excuse to Reexamine Your Life
- Is an Internship a Good Idea?
- 10 Months of Salary: Our Finances 2 Months After Buying Our First House
- Thought Crimes: If Time is Money Then Let's Spend Our Time Thinking Productively
- When should you wait and when should you just buy!
- Even Hard Work Is Fun When You're the Boss
- Hey Snobs...Those Community College Graduates You Look Down On Have Higher Starting Salaries Than You
April 2011
- What's in your wallet?
- Home Improvement Lessons Learned (So Far)
- My Fear of Roth IRA's
- In defense of tiger mom
- Spending Now to Save Later?
- Just Be Thankful To Have a Job
- Big News for Broke Professionals: We've Sold The Site
- 10 Stupid Financial Decisions Even Intelligent People Make
- Oil Heat
- 155 Things We Have Learned Since We Started Blogging
- How do professionals find jobs
March 2011
- Travel the World Despite Your Student Debt
- All Moved In
- I Feel Bad for Banks (Sort Of)
- What We're Reading: March March 20-26
- Janitor Summers: The Worst Job I Ever Had
- Interview with Wall Street Journal's David Crook About Post-Bubble Real Estate
- How to Budget in the Fun Stuff (Guest Post By Budgeting in the Fun Stuff)
- The Spouse Off #6: To What Extent If Any Should We Change Our Routines Due to the Possibility of Radiation from the Japanese Nuclear Disaster
- Sticking to a Budget: How We Furnished Our House Thousands of Dollars Under Budget
- We Were Extremely Wrong: Eating Only Food Already In Our Apartment Aftermath
- You're Fired! Now Come Back for 1/2 Pay
- Today is the Day
- What We're Reading: March 13-March 20
- The True Value of a Great Idea: By itself, Nothing.
- Making Things Work - Ways to Do What You Want, Even When You Don’t Have The Money
- Clients Are Everywhere
- Is Cutting Up Our Credit Cards a Huge Mistake?
- 100th Post Anniversary - And Our 25 Favorite Personal Finance Posts Q1 2011
- Reason To be Scared: One Readers True Story of a Real Life Money Pit
- Confession: I'm Scared
- I.R.S. College Student Loan Interest Deduction Underestimates the True Costs of Education
- Tangible Proof That Deep Down People Are Good
- Easy Come Easy Go: Can Early Financial Success Be Detrimental?
- First-Time Homebuyer Credit- Credit or Interest Free Loan?
- Interview With a Law School Scam Blogger: Kimber A. Russell
- What Broke Professionals is Reading: February 27-March 5
- Technological Singularity: Personal Finance in the Shadow of the Dawn of the Robot Apocalypse
- Interview with Kelli Space, Who is Now Infamous for Her Website Asking for Donations Towards Her Nearly $200,000 in Student Loan Debt
- Combining Ideas to Start a Business
- Welcome to Visitors from our Guest Posts at Frugal Dad and Daily Blog Tips
- Smart Financial Decision or Big Mistake (Quitting the Gym): The Spouse Off, #6
- Managing Investment Priorities: Do the Math
- 9 Essential Qualities of a Successful Entrepreneur
February 2011
- Frugal Cooking: An Overview and Some Recipes - Guest Post by Canadian Doomer
- Yakezie Personal Finance Challenge Alexa Portion Complete
- Saving Money By Eating Only Food Already in the Apartment, Week 5: The Conclusion
- Splurging on an Anniversary: Yakezie Blog Swap
- Personal Finance Blog Interview: Money Cone
- Academy Award Best Picture Nominees: Financial Life Lessons
- Check Out Our Guest Post over at Couple Money
- Appraisal Problems: Options as a Buyer and Seller When a Home Under Appraises
- Federal Income Taxes: Better to Get a Lump Sum at the End of the Year or Take out the Exact Amount Owed Each Paycheck? (The Spouse-Off #5)
- Welcome from Pro Blogger or Time Magazine's Blog
- Future Graduate Student: My Advice to My Sister Regarding Graduate School
- 100 Things We Have Learned Since We Started Blogging
- Saving Money By Eating Only Food Already in the House (Can We Last a Month, Week 4)
- Check Out My Guest Post Over at My Journey to Millions
- The LifeStyle Creep
- What Broke Professionals is Reading - February 13 through February 19th
- Monetary Time Travel: What Personal Finance or Career Decisions Would You Tell Your 18 Year Old Self To Do Differently?
- Addicted to Shopping
- Sophie the Shetland Sheepdog v. the Dow Jones Industrial Average #3
- Creating a NoteBook For Your Financial Future
- 10 Bad Things We Have All Done for Good Money
- Permission from a Spouse to Purchase? (The Spouse Off #4)
- Agreeing on a Gift Free Valentine's Day
- Saving Money By Only Eating Food Already In the House "Can We Last a Month" February Edition, Part 3
- 70 Post Ideas for Your Blog
- Your Financial "Friends" May be Taking Advantage of You
- FREE E-BOOK 155 BLOGGING LESSONS LEARNED
- What Broke Professionals is Reading: February 5 through February 12
- R.I.P. The Happy Even After.COM
- Singular v. Plural Domain Name: Why Not Buy Both?
- Getting Housed: Learn the Process of Buying a Home through our Story of Epic Failure, (Likely) Charlatans, and Home Buying Lessons Learned
- 52 Date Ideas that Cost Less than $10.00 Each: One for Each Weekend (List)
- Should You Purchase a Home Across the Street from a Cemetery? "The Spouse Off" #3
- Saving Money by Eating Only Food Already in the House for a Month: "Can We Last a Month" - February Edition, Part 2
- Learning that Being Frugal Can End up Costing you Money: Plus Broke Professionals Personal Finances: Weekly Review
- What Broke Professionals Is Reading: January 30th Through February 5, 2011
- A Dozen Ways to Save Money Around the House
- Smash Away the Stress?
- 10 Ways to Leave College Without Student Loans (Just do the Opposite of what I did)
- Stocks Purchased: Sophie Puts Her (ok...our) Money Where her Mouth is and Purchases Some Stock
- Broke Professionals Blog Notes/Update 2-1-11
- Put a Cap on the Amount You Save? (Can You Save Too Much?) "The Spouse off: #2"
January 2011
- My Life Story as Told Through Life Insurance
- Saving Money by Eating Only Food Already in the House for a Month: "Can We Last a Month"- February Edition, Part 1
- What Broke Professionals is Reading: January 22-January 29
- Guest Post at Squirrelers.com
- An Appropriate Wedding Gift or Not? Plus: Broke Professionals' Finances, the Weekly Review
- Stock Selection Day: Sophie the Shetland Sheepdog v. the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Saving Money on Workouts
- Professional Irony - Fictional Wealth #1
- Commingling Funds in Marriage: "The Spouse Off" #1
- The Scariest Pie-Graph Ever and the "State of the Union" of BrokeProfessionals.Com
- Professional Movie Watcher: Save Money and Watch All 10 Oscar Nominees in One Day
- Young Professionals in the City: Will the Allure of the City Break the Bank?
- What I'm Reading: January 15-January 22
- Many Companies Make Their Money in Unexpected Ways: Be on the Lookout for "Transformer Companies"
- Investing in the Closest Thing to a Free Lunch
- Broke Professionals Blog Update and Thank You
- 3 Alternatives To Paying for Cable
- Methods to Budget and Save Money #1: The Envelope System
- How Your Spouse's Job Can Assist Your Salary Negotiations
- The Real Life ROI of Student Loans
- Personal Finance Advice from up North (Canada)
- Employee Relation Lessons
- What I'm Reading: January 8 through January 15, 2011
- "It's Just $10,000.00"
- Is America No Longer a Place for Professionals?
- College: The Best Time to Network--and Most of us Already Missed Out
- The Vegas IRA: Gambling on Wall Street v. Gambling in Las Vegas
- Proud to Have Started the Yakezie Challenge
- 3 Things to Do Before Deciding to Further Your Education
- Want Better Teachers? Cut Teacher's Salaries
- Inexpensive Ways to Dress Like a Professional on a Strict Budget
- What Would You Do? The Last Tempting Offer
- What BrokeProfessionals is Reading, the week of 1/2 through 1/9, 2011
- 10 Hidden Signs You Suck at your Job as a Professional and Ways to Try and Fix It
- Read my Guest Post at Darwin's Money
- BROKE PROFESSIONALS BELATED GOALS FOR 2011
- Lessons from the Local Sub Shop
- Personal Finance for the End of Days? (Apothacracy)
- 10 Ways to Pay off Post-Holiday Debt
- Top 7 Financial Bad Influences
- 5 Reasons to Travel Abroad in 2011 (Plus a Love Letter to Paris)
December 2010
- Anti-Social: Facebook and My Sordid Past and Ambivalent Present
- Americans are OverWorked
- A Letter to Helicopter Parents of Adults
- Try Eating Only Organic Foods
- Quitting the Gym and Exercising from Home
- New Policy Regarding On-Site Advertisements
- Eating Nothing but Whole Foods: Our Experience With a Whole Foods Diet
- A MODEST PROPOSAL: OUTLAWING PETS IN ORDER TO SAVE THE GLOBAL ECONOMY
- Get Outside Your Comfort Zone: Don't be a "Green Liner"
- Who Has Time to Count Calories? How to count calories
- 10 Reasons to Get Rid of Cable
- Growing Up in a Working Class Blue Collar Family and Now Working as a Professional
- The Eight Days of Un-New Year's: Starting Christmas Eve
- How Do Young Professionals Pay Student Loans
- In Search of a Purer Form of New Year's Resolution
- Happy Un-New Year's
- What to do When clients think you are too Young
- Befriending Your Boss
- Juggling Work and Relationships - By Mrs. Broke Professional
- Bah-Humbug Christmas
- Dieting Tips for Professionals Part II
- Personal Finance: Saving Money While Switching Apartments (Have We Become Nomads?)?)
- Dieting Tips for Professionals Part I (or I just can't weight for the holidays to be over)
- Holiday Office Parties Are Evil and Should Be Banned from the WorkPlace
- How Did We Get Here?