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As usual, there were a lot of good articles written in the blogosphere last month. Unfortunately, everybody is sick at home (including me!) so no comments on the links for this month. Anyway…here are my top ten posts for the last month:

#10 Prepaid Wireless Plan Comparison by Million Dollar Journey.

#9 Prequalifying Vs Preauthorizing Vs. Preapproving Letter by Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.

#8 Current Market Conditions Encourage Bad Decisions - Don’t Make the Same Mistake by Generation X Finance.

#7 Why The First Million is the Hardest By Enough Wealth.

#6 Teaching Preschooler About Money by I’ve Paid for this Twice Already.

#5 TSX Drops 600 points in one day and I’m not worried by Where Does all My Money Goes.

#4 American subprime crisis: should the rest of us care? by Plonkey Money.

#3 How to Talk to your Teenager about Personal Finance at Brip Blap.

#2 Why Most Investors Don’t Make Money In The Stock Market by The Digerati Life.

#1 If I Could Re-Write Rich Dad Poor Dad by Thicken my Wallet.

 

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Even thought it was Christmas time, Bloggers around the world did not take any break. I even planned on slowing down my writing production and I felt I just could not let my readers down. So here are my top 10 articles around the blogosphere for the month of December.

#10 I Just Saved $7 On My Electric Bill Without Spending A Dime at My Two Dollars.

Reality or fiction? I don’t know yet but I will certainly try this easy trick to save money on my electric bill!

#9 Our Best and Worst Wedding Registry Experiences (hint: Avoid Sears) at Lazyman and Money.

A great review of stores that could help or ruin your wedding registry experience. In fact, I don’t really like Sears either for many reasons. Those reasons are an A/C, a vacuum and a photo session!

 

#8 Babycenter.com A Nifty Tool to Calculate the Cost of Raising a Child at The Dough Roller.

Since I have already two babies, I know how they can be expensive. For those who are in doubts, you can surely read this article and visit babycenter.com!

 

#7 Ah Ha! The Value Of An Asset is Better Appreciated When you Lose It at Money, Matter and More Musings.

As Golbguru says in his intro : ” This is rather obvious, but not much appreciated in day-to-day life, so I thought of giving it a shout-out.”. Today, when you come back home, make sure to be greatfull for what you have.

 

#6 The Exciting Financial Year That Was At The Digerati Life.

A great recap from a great blog. If you haven’t started reading SVB’s blog, start with this one so you won’t be lost!

#5 Confession of a New Car Buyer - Getting the Best Price at Million Dollar Journey.

I really liked his first article about how car salesmen can act. This one is about a true story of a reader that went in a car dealership. Find out what happen on his blog!

#4 Top 5 Guaranteed Ways To Lose your Money investing at Stock Trading To Go.

They are mostly in line with my 7 Sins of Personal Finance Part1 and Part2.  We still don’t know how to make money with our investments, but we now know 5  things to avoid when we are trying to!

#3  DIY Smith Manoeuvre Part 4 at Canadian Capitalist.

I’m a big fan of the SM and i encourage you to read the full series. It will give you a lot of information as of to how implement a SM and start investing. The interesting part is that CC has no intention to do a SM so I guess he is able to provide a non-biased opinion on the subject.

#2 How to be a good partner to a stay-at-home spouse at Brip Blap.

This guy always comes with the most original posts! I’m almost jealous Seriously, I really enjoyed this article as I am planning to have my wife to stay at home in a year or so. Great tips!

#1 The Preet Principle - Leveraging to Invest the Right Way! Part1 at Where Does All My Money Goes.

A very interesting and complete (and lengthy!) series on leveraging. Preet is an Investment Executive with ScotiaMcLeod so he knows what he is doing (hopefully LOL!). Seriously, you copy an paste the full series (it makes 14 pages on Word) and read this on your way to work. It is definitely worth your time!

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Say what! We are already December 6th? Yikes, I am pretty late on my November Top Ten (maybe I should start writing about my yearly Top Ten right away!). Things are going a bit too fast for me these days between Christmas shopping (almost done!), receiving friends (always a lot of fun), shoveling (we received more than 20 inches of snow this week!) and stu(dying) for my MBA (8 days left before the first exam!). So here is my top 10 for the month of November:

#10: Staying on Track When You Work at Home by Lazyman. After he resigned from his job, Lazyman decided to take some time off and work on side projects. One of them is his blog. He is resuming his first month as being a hubby-at-home.

#9: Time to Run and Hide From Stocks ? by Flexo. I don’t know about your portfolio but mine is going down. I am showing a negative overall return of -8% for 2007. Nothing really to brag about! Flexo is asking himself if it’s the time to sell and run…

#8: What could you give up when you’re in financial trouble? by Cleverdude. A series of two articles where Clever Dude is using his own situation to show you how you can cut in your expenses without having to sell away your newborn. Those are tricks I would use to cut down in my expenses in order to reach my $1,500 project. Unfortunately, I have used most of them already!

#7: Blog Income Report by John Chow. Not a big found but still motivating for me. I sometimes make reference to thisk famous blogger on my blog and I wanted you to know why. I’ll let you go on his blog to find out how much he made last month. Just a clue : it was more than what my wife makes in a year!

#6: Credit Cards: Friend or Foe? by Money Smart Life. I personally think they are my friends for the reasons mentioned in this article. However, they can betray you and become your biggest enemy within a few months as well…

#5: Anecdotes and Advice from a First Time Home Buyer Part 8 by Four Pillars. Did I ever told that this guy is writing great series? Well this time it is his friend, Christine who made this great series for people that are looking for their first house and even for people that are already home owner.

#4: The Sandwitched Generation by Golbguru. As a proud parent of two beautiful kids, I am really concern about this issue. I am the only child in my family and my parents are not getting younger. While I will have to take care of William and Amy, I am wondering if I will have to take care of my Mother and Dad.

#3: 101 thoughts on losing 100 pounds by Brip Blap. I think I will print this article and post it everywhere on January 2nd where I realized that I gained 10 pounds over the Hollidays!

#2: Quitting My Job, Retiring Early: 5 Steps To Lifestyle Change by Silicon Valley Blogger. I did quit my job in the past and it was one of best thing I ever done in my life. Now, we are working on having my wife to quit hers and it will hopefully work out in 2008.

#1: Confessions of a Car Salesman by Frugal Trader. Hum… I thought they were crooked but they are worst than I thought. I personally think that this article is valuable for most salesperson in any field (personal finance included). Beware!