By Linsey Knerl I’ve been doing my own taxes for about 5 years now. Even as my needs have changed (I’ve gone from a simple 1040EZ to a more complex small business partnership structure), I’ve found that the tax software available on the commercial market has grown to meet my needs. Here are the most compelling reasons you may also want to give it a go!

When GM was knocking on the doorstep of bankruptcy (who answered soon after), I thought it would be fun to try to buy a single share as a collectors item. It was under a dollar a share and I really only needed one, so I assumed it probably wasn’t going to cost all that much.

Now is a great time to get a discount on your credit reports or scores because myFICO is celebrating its 9th birthday by offering a 30% discount coupon code. This is a limited time offer though, and is only available for the next few days.

I think I may have some sort of split personality disorder.  While I’ve been working hard to lock down our spending, I’ve also found myself “giving in” to a few desires.  One of those desires is a new 47” LCD TV from Costco.

We’re adding the high-yield checking account at Danversbank to our list of favorites.

It’s paying 4.01% APY on balances up to $25,000 — a rate that’s almost impossible to find these days, even on 7-year CDs — with free ATM use and no monthly fees.
Although the rate on these accounts is always variable, Danversbank hasn’t changed [...]

It’s been a busy last couple of months, but I’m amazed at how well everything is going so far in 2010. Among other things, I just received a small windfall from my freelance and blogging business. My freelance income has otherwise been fairly steady, with some irregular income for bigger projects and other things.

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I buy maybe three video games a year, which is as often as they make games good enough to buy. I find it impossible to pay $60 for a new game, partially because as a child of the original Nintendo, I got accustomed to $40 games, so I always wait at least a couple weeks to get a used copy. And I did the same thing with Assassin’s Creed II, which was worth every penny.But I’m not going to tell you how awesome this game is, since you’d either like it or you wouldn’t. No, the interesting part is how I almost wasted a bunch of money on it.

Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd is pushing for even tougher regulation on financial institutions in a bill that will provide greater power to the Federal Reserve.

Senator Dodd’s Proposal
The bill, which could come to the Senate floor as early as this April, would give the central bank and government more power to regulate risky [...]