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<?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl" type="text/xsl" media="screen"?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css" type="text/css" media="screen"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:55:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Money Illusions</title><description>Money illusions, scams, and false perceptions trick our minds, and affect our bottom line.</description><link>http://www.moneyillusions.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>258</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><image><link>http://www.moneyillusions.com/</link><url>http://www.feedburner.com/fb/images/pub/fb_pwrd.gif</url><title>Money Illusions</title></image><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/MoneyIllusions" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-2796113813037189053</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-30T20:37:36.914-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><title>Money Smart Educational Solution</title><atom:summary type="text">The more you can educate yourself and your children about money, the greater your defense to build a healthier financial future. Have you stopped by the FDIC's site to learn all you can about money from their computer-based training videos? I just went through several of their videos and found the videos to be a great resource to help educate your children too!

There are numerous money smart </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/323738485/money-smart-educational-solution.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=ygm5ls"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=ygm5ls" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/323738485" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/06/money-smart-educational-solution.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-5313079297471457443</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:18:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-29T23:39:53.596-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Coupons for A Dollar Saved</title><atom:summary type="text">Here's a quick penny pincher tip to save you at least one dollar! Spending one dollar less here and there adds up. To some it isn't worth their time to bother trying to save a dollar, but to many others it's a blessing.

The other day while running some errands, I went to the Dollar Store. I bought a trial-sized box of cereal, and after returning home I noticed a coupon on the back of the box. </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/323031929/coupons-for-dollar-saved.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp0.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/SFmiLIxlMOI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/7uDd68S_Hzs/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=rK1ctP"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=rK1ctP" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/323031929" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/06/coupons-for-dollar-saved.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-8504442433007235265</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-20T17:40:14.194-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taxes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humor</category><title>Your Tax Dollars at Work</title><atom:summary type="text">It seems to be a never-ending frustration when we wonder what happens to all the money we pay in taxes. While on my walk yesterday I crossed the street to use the sidewalk on the other side. That was when this silly thought came to mind. We have all been asked, "Why did the chicken cross the road?" and yesterday I finally figured out why - lol.

The chicken crossed the road to get to the other </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/316590054/your-tax-dollars-at-work.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=4x88ag"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=4x88ag" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/316590054" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/06/your-tax-dollars-at-work.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-5293390443791852420</guid><pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-19T17:49:01.899-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Penny Pincher Tip for Dollar Menu</title><atom:summary type="text">With the current prices for gasoline many of us are looking to pinch more pennies in order to keep up with the fuel costs. One way to pinch your pennies is by making use of the dollar menus at your favorite fast food restaurant when you eat out.

Yesterday I made use of the dollar menu when I needed a quick snack while running errands. At our nearby McDonalds I ordered 3 boxes of McNuggets off </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/315829562/penny-pincher-tip-for-dollar-menu.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp0.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/SFmiLIxlMOI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/7uDd68S_Hzs/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=uiSpjs"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=uiSpjs" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/315829562" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/06/penny-pincher-tip-for-dollar-menu.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-1675829391227029138</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-18T15:28:36.960-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Credit</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Debt</category><title>Debt Reduction Planning Tips and Tools</title><atom:summary type="text">It's easy to get caught up into the belief that we have more money to work with when we fall prey to using credit cards and other consumer debt to acquire things we either want, need, or think we need!

Ninety days same-as-cash, six months, or twelve months same-as-cash are actually a great way to make purchases with borrowed money, and it's the method that is my personal favorite. There's </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/314950574/debt-reduction-planning-tips-and-tools.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=0urlIj"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=0urlIj" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/314950574" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/06/debt-reduction-planning-tips-and-tools.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-4969423912035118549</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-17T19:29:30.645-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Penny Pincher Tip to Remove the Sting</title><atom:summary type="text">Last year I read a tip somewhere online that gave a great reason to save your pennies - well at least one penny that is! This isn't my usual penny pincher tip, but then again this certainly could pinch your pennies because it may save you from spending money at a doctor's office or worse yet, a hospital!

I'm into home remedies whenever possible and today I just happened to be in need of one  </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/311596641/penny-pincher-tip-to-remove-sting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/SFNBANnlpuI/AAAAAAAAAJw/aOxXTmdZJ14/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=og9dDw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=og9dDw" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/311596641" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/06/penny-pincher-tip-to-remove-sting.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-5407189211941939319</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-21T18:09:40.911-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Cash Back Money from MS Live Search</title><atom:summary type="text">True penny pinchers look for any possible ways to reduce expenses. If you are a penny pincher looking to cut the price on merchandise you purchase online, there's a new rebate game in town! It's always good to cut down on shopping expenses!

Microsoft has launched a program enabling the consumer to get rebates from items they purchased as a result of using their search engine to locate the </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/295454188/cash-back-money-from-ms-live-search.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/SDTGcp_ShjI/AAAAAAAAAJI/o2q7NZ7-Qz4/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=ch83WX"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=ch83WX" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/295454188" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/05/cash-back-money-from-ms-live-search.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-5404767151967263776</guid><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 15:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-17T20:35:01.777-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">WAH and Telecommuting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Laundering</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Work at Home Scams</category><title>Earning Money from a Telecommuting Scam</title><atom:summary type="text">Earning money from home is an ideal opportunity for many people, and especially for those who have children at home. Finding a legitimate work at home or telecommuting position can be difficult, and it makes it even more so when you have to eliminate the work at home scams.

Money laundering is often the foundation of a work at home scam, but many people don't understand how to recognize a money </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/292914230/earning-money-from-telecommuting-scam.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=CkD2Bc"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=CkD2Bc" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/292914230" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/05/earning-money-from-telecommuting-scam.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-4217190772192009875</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-05-03T14:02:18.472-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Health</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Penny Pinchers Reduce the Fat</title><atom:summary type="text">Penny pinchers are often looking for ways to reduce their grocery expense. One of the best ways to reduce your grocery budget is to go on a diet! When we focus on eating the proper foods we will purchase less junk and therefore reduce the amount of money we spend on groceries while we also reduce the fat!

Here's a way you can do both at the same time! When you diet be sure to consume plenty of </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/282940947/penny-pinchers-reduce-fat.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp0.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/SBzSlCHKShI/AAAAAAAAAJA/h8AoWGoMBCY/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=BO16bd"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=BO16bd" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/282940947" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/05/penny-pinchers-reduce-fat.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-220273962576790358</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-27T14:59:58.391-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taxes</category><title>Tax Rebate Money Well Spent or Saved</title><atom:summary type="text">Are you looking forward to your tax rebate arriving? I'm sure you are, but if you had to pay more income taxes on April 15th the rebate may not seem to be much. Either way it's nice to get some money back, so I'm certainly not going to complain!

In that you're looking forward to your rebate, have you made any plans on how to use the funds? Congress of course wants us to spend it so it gives the </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/278993843/tax-rebate-money-well-spent-or-saved.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=Fcy9nz"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=Fcy9nz" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/278993843" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/04/tax-rebate-money-well-spent-or-saved.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-8406714784507851388</guid><pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-18T19:19:22.868-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Illusions</category><title>Money Illusion of Gambling</title><atom:summary type="text">If there was ever a big money illusion that tricks most of us to yield to it's temptation in hopes of winning big, it's gambling and playing games like the lotto and slot machines!

It's easy for each of us to want to believe that we deserve to win a big lottery, sweepstakes or that we'll get a big windfall of money, but the reality is that most don't, and the odds are against most of us.

</atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/273280264/money-illusion-of-gambling.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=iCvVzF"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=iCvVzF" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/273280264" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/04/money-illusion-of-gambling.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-6019854557670304839</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-06-18T14:52:57.330-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Tight Wad Penny Pincher Test</title><atom:summary type="text">Have your family members or friends accused you of being a penny pinching tight-wad? If you need to prove it's either true or false all you need is to take the tight-wad test!

The penny pincher tight-wad test will score you on a scale of 0-100. The higher your score the more of a penny pincher tight-wad you are! My score came in at 57% which really didn't surprise me since I consider myself to </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/266120362/tight-wad-penny-pincher-test.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R_sB3c_YT1I/AAAAAAAAAIo/_0Sdm3zc8tE/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=lFD3s3"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=lFD3s3" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/266120362" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/04/tight-wad-penny-pincher-test.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-4939341939896938913</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-03T14:08:46.718-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Identity Theft</category><title>Identity Theft Prevention Tips</title><atom:summary type="text">There are more than 799 victims per hour of identity theft. Will you be one of those people this hour?

Identity theft thieves steal wallets, browse through garbage, and look for documents to provide them with the necessary information. Shredders are inexpensive and a must-have for every household and business. Using reliable anti-virus and spy ware software is essential in order to protect </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/263565583/identity-theft-prevention-tips.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=aUkmrP"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=aUkmrP" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/263565583" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/04/identity-theft-prevention-tips.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-1943485673652549540</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-01T00:14:49.940-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budgeting</category><title>Turn Five Dollars a Day into Thousands</title><atom:summary type="text">Personal budgeting isn't an easy task for many, but did you know you can turn $5.00 a day into $55,000.00 - $126,000.00 or more? The power of compounding your savings does add up over time using even a small amount.

Where do you come up with $5.00 a day to turn it into $55,000.00 or more? For many, that amount of money is already being spent each day, but by making a few changes to some habits </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/261794375/turn-five-dollars-day-into-thousands.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=v608k0"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=v608k0" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/261794375" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/04/turn-five-dollars-day-into-thousands.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-7178708875976409783</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-04-01T00:16:15.840-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Taxes</category><title>Penny Pinchers Tax Deduction Freebie</title><atom:summary type="text">Are you in need of another tax deduction? And, do you have a need for address labels? Address labels are always handy to have available, but did you know you can get address labels for free, and get a tax deduction at the same time?

Years ago I ordered address labels, but then quickly learned how to get FREE address labels and a tax deduction at the same time! Since then, I've never ordered </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/261753134/penny-pinchers-tax-deduction-freebie.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R-i3KM_YTyI/AAAAAAAAAIM/e-dCSMlGT7Q/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=xUbmU9"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=xUbmU9" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/261753134" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/penny-pinchers-tax-deduction-freebie.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-308735867486578082</guid><pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-28T17:37:34.099-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Fraud</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crime</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Illusions</category><title>Pyramid Ponzi Scheme Money Illusions</title><atom:summary type="text">As we look back in history there seems to be times when the pyramid ponzi schemes come and go as if they're a fad. Regardless of the era in which they are presented to the victim, pyramid ponzi schemes are fraudulent and only benefit the top few people who started the scam.

Just to clarify and end any confusion, a ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment that does not rely on net revenues from </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/259957915/pyramid-ponzi-scheme-money-illusions.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=BJzyxn"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=BJzyxn" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/259957915" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/pyramid-ponzi-scheme-money-illusions.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-2805592719443552871</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-24T19:23:11.470-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Penny Pinchers Use Cereal Bags and Boxes</title><atom:summary type="text">If you're a penny pincher you most likely come up with innovative ways to pinch your pennies tight! As any penny pincher knows the more pennies you pinch the further your dollar goes and the more you can save. It's also helpful to utilize items in multiple ways rather than tossing them once they served only one purpose.

Are you about to throw out your cereal box and the inner bag? Stop! You </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/257379566/penny-pinchers-use-cereal-bags-and.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R-hh0M_YTxI/AAAAAAAAAIE/HuW0mrB893Q/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=tHOKGm"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=tHOKGm" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/257379566" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/penny-pinchers-use-cereal-bags-and.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-1296551449251299276</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-24T11:20:43.684-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Illusions</category><title>Money Can't Buy You Love</title><atom:summary type="text">Money truly cannot buy us love and that's a good thing. But, for those who have fallen for the money illusion by trying to buy love with money, it's probably only a matter of time before they realize it doesn't work.

One only needs to listen to an old song from the 1960's classic when the Beatles sang, "Money can't buy you me love." Let's admit that it can't buy you love either - lol. True love </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/257179668/money-cant-buy-you-love.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=U0yd37"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=U0yd37" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/257179668" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/money-cant-buy-you-love.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-6873680791999893720</guid><pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-23T19:26:46.667-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><title>Penny Pinchers Catalog Shopping Tip</title><atom:summary type="text">Do you like making purchases through mail order catalogs? If mail order catalogs generally get the best of you, here's one of my quick tips that may save you from spending too much money on mail order merchandise. In fact, if this proves to be as affective for you as it is for me, you may discover you don't need to order anything from catalogs any longer.

Although there is nothing wrong with </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/256785735/penny-pinchers-catalog-shopping-tip.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R-cQMc_YTwI/AAAAAAAAAH8/znWno4Y4X2A/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=aJvzSe"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=aJvzSe" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/256785735" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/penny-pinchers-catalog-shopping-tip.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-4385842725527700984</guid><pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-21T21:55:32.769-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budgeting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Illusions</category><title>Penny Wise Pound Foolish</title><atom:summary type="text">Would it be possible for someone to be "penny wise, pound foolish" if we no longer had pennies? Just to clarify if you're not familiar with the phrase, "penny wise, pound foolish" it refers to applying wisdom to save pennies on purchases, but being foolish with larger amounts of money and spending habits.

To me even pennies have value as I've always made use of pennies while at the store, rather</atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/255755581/penny-wise-pound-foolish.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R-DUWYH3aPI/AAAAAAAAAHI/Mdrv1aOQJ8A/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=76YPp2"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=76YPp2" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/255755581" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/penny-wise-pound-foolish.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-8306189482260292475</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-20T10:23:14.434-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Illusions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humor</category><title>Money Illusions of Shoe Box Savings</title><atom:summary type="text">When I was a child I believed a money illusion in regards to what the bank does with our money when we deposit it into a savings account. My obvious erroneous perception about money was due to ignorance as a child, which led me to believe only my wild imagination.

When a person went to a bank to make a deposit, I believed the bank placed their money in a box labeled with the customers name, and </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/255046912/money-illusions-of-shoe-box-savings.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=Dp210U"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=Dp210U" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/255046912" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/money-illusions-of-shoe-box-savings.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-1573654906125954256</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-19T16:23:52.152-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Anti-Theft</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crime</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Identity Theft</category><title>Identity Theft Lesson from a Crook</title><atom:summary type="text">One of the best ways to learn how to protect ourselves from becoming a victim of crime is to learn from the crooks themselves. The greater efforts we place on protecting our financial identity the less potential headaches we'll experience in the future.

With this example, we can learn from convicted identity theft crook Gregory Kopiloff from Seattle, Washington. He was just sentenced to 51 </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/254579351/identity-theft-lesson-from-crook.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=ioQQpD"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=ioQQpD" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/254579351" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/identity-theft-lesson-from-crook.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-5380058533610534769</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-21T14:46:50.056-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Penny Pinchers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Budgeting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humor</category><title>Penny Pincher Secret to Save Money</title><atom:summary type="text">Got pennies? Then you have the ability to save for your future! It may sound silly, but one of the biggest money illusions is to believe that your pennies aren't worth anything. Think again!

For every penny you save, the value of the penny grows and suddenly it adds up - so how can you complain about saving your pennies? Now obviously your pennies are not going to grow or breed overnight sitting</atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/254169828/penny-pincher-secret-to-save-money.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp2.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R-DUWYH3aPI/AAAAAAAAAHI/Mdrv1aOQJ8A/s72-c/piggybank.gif" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=RVcSVI"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=RVcSVI" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/254169828" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/penny-pincher-secret-to-save-money.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-598874610151953711</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-18T10:41:33.357-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Crime</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Identity Theft</category><title>Identity Theft Legislation Progress</title><atom:summary type="text">It's been identified as one of the fastest growing crimes across America, and probably across the world. With the Internet becoming more widely accessed, it makes it even easier for the identity theft thieves to do their dirty work.

It's always good to hear of progress in regards to new laws being implemented to protect the consumer and our identity, and such is the case with new identity theft </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/253778313/identity-theft-legislation-progress.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=mnxMPj"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=mnxMPj" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/253778313" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/identity-theft-legislation-progress.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28173444.post-746790776788912549</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-03-17T22:45:24.013-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Money Illusions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Humor</category><title>Money Illusion of a Rainbow Pot of Gold</title><atom:summary type="text">There are many money illusions, and some come from fables and tales twice told or more! As children we often learn the tale of a pot of gold waiting for us at the end of the rainbow, and if we can simply get to the end of the rainbow the pot is there for us to claim. Wow, what a money illusion - lol! 

Have you ever heard of anyone actually reaching the end of the rainbow and locating the pot of </atom:summary><link>http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~3/252836250/money-illusion-of-rainbow-pot-of-gold.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Tammara Nelson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://bp1.blogger.com/_xuy_X3MTGQc/R94OKoH3aOI/AAAAAAAAAHA/WXu6txRua8Q/s72-c/dreamstime_3888894.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?a=NuCILj"&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/MoneyIllusions?i=NuCILj" border="0"&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MoneyIllusions/~4/252836250" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.moneyillusions.com/2008/03/money-illusion-of-rainbow-pot-of-gold.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>
