From My Reader

I thought I'd start a weekly habit of sharing some of my favorite blog posts of the week with you all.  Hopefully you enjoy them as much as I do.

The author of It Pays Dividends turned 30 and shared 30 life lessons with us. Smart guy.

The Conservative Income Investor reviewed Southern Company, a utility my high school economics teacher really liked.

This article reviews two stocks I own, VF Corporation and Target.

Kayln at Creative Savings writes about Amazon Prime.  I'm a member and I found benefits I wasn't using.

Monevator talked about education via MOOCs.

We don't generally itemize our deductions on our tax return since we have no mortgage interest, but we bought two cars this year and this article reminds me that we need to take a look at the sales tax we paid and see if it makes a difference regardin tax deductions.

Index funds are all the rage now (and they are where most of our assets are invested) but this article gives the potential negatives.

Passive Income Dude reviews his third quarter.

My Dollar Plan lets us know about a $60 credit available from Amazon.

Daily Trade Alert wrote about Health Savings Accounts.

Dividend Growth Investor writes about tax-advantaged accounts.

Any links you'd like to share?  Leave them in the comments.

I'm Co-Hosting Financially Savvy Saturday

Welcome to Financially Savvy Saturdays, the savviest personal finance blog hop on the planet, created specifically for personal finance writers! We welcome all things money here. Whether you've written anything from your net worth update to frugal ways to make dinner, you're invited to link-up. If it ties into personal finance, we want to read it!

This weekend we're excited to welcome back Ruth Ann from Racing Towards Retirement, where she writes about, you guessed it, life closer to retirement and how to prepare for that next step in life. Tweet about it. You can use #finsavsat when tweeting about the party! Concerns about SEO? Recently many bloggers have decided to stop participating in events such as Carnivals. If you're worried about how participating in this link-up could effect your SEO, I'd encourage you to check out this article. Interested in co-hosting? Co-hosting is fun AND easy. If you’re interested, you can email us via brokeGIRLrich(at)gmail(dot)com or info(at)diseasecalleddebt(dot)com with any questions. Or if you're ready to take the plunge, you can sign up on this Google doc. If you’ve co-hosted before and enjoyed it, please consider doing it again! If you’re interested but nervous about getting involved, please email one of us, we love talking to new bloggers and would enjoy explaining how blog hops work and getting you more involved!

Feature of the Week

As this week's visiting co-host, Ruth Ann has selected her favorite post from last week's blog hop to be this week's feature - What Is Financial Abuse? by Femme Frugality.

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Link Love: Some Blogs I Enjoy

I'm a blog addict; I have lot of blogs I follow through Bloglovin and Feedly and I'd like to share some of them  with you today.

Dividend Growth Investor talks about investing in stocks that pay dividends.  He talks about companies as well as techniques, resources etc.  For example, his latest article is about Interactive Brokers and why they are a good brokerage for dividend investors.

Dividend Yield--Stock, Capital, Investment is another blog about dividend investing.

Good Financial Sense covers a range of investing, retirment and financial planning topics.

ProBlogger talks about blogging; I don't follow much of their advice but I do enjoy reading about how the cool kids do things.

Passive Income Pursuit is another investing blog.

Daily Trade Alert has really good analyses of stocks.

Dividend Diplomats is another dividend investing blog.  Are you noticing a theme?

DivGroPro.  Yes, another one.

MoneyNing:  A general personal finance blog.

Motley Fool:  Includes stock tips and general investing information

Retire Before Dad:  General investment and financial planning info, including an analysis of the stocks available via Loyal3.

Do I read everything these folks publish?  No.  I follow them on Bloglovin and/or Feedly.  I open the app when I get a minute and scroll through the feeds and click through when they look interesting.

What are some blogs you read?  Do you use bookmarks, or a feed reader or ...?