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A personal finance book for women – The Smart Cookies’ Guide to Making More Dough

February 1, 2009

This is quite a new book on the shelves that’s targeted towards women who want to begin taking control of their personal finances. The book “The Smart Cookies’ Guide to Making More Dough” caught my attention when I flipped through the latest copy of Personal Money magazine.

However, after a quick read on Amazon, I decided [...]

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Don’t bring forward your debt into the new year

January 23, 2009

The Chinese New Year will be upon us in 2 days’ time. I am a little on the superstitious side, so I try to do whatever that’s said to be good and avoid the bad. One of the things that people believe in is to not carry forward any debts you may have into the [...]

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Statistics on Malaysians’ habit to spend versus save

January 1, 2009

I was reading January 2009’s issue of Personal Money magazine and came across some statistics on the preference to spend today versus saving for tomorrow. This statistics came about from Aviva’s 2008 Consumer Attitudes to Savings study. Here are some of the results shown for a few countries, Malaysia included.
Before you look at the results, [...]

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