I have been reading personal finance blogs for quite some time… and pretty religiously.

I used to steal my girlfriends laptop and sneak off to GetRichSlowly.org or FreeMoneyFinance.com or CleverDude.com when there was some downtime in whatever we were doing :)

So, without further adieu… here are the articles that I enjoyed this week:

Welcome to the weekly comic post. These comics are made by my girlfriend and thus are tagged so as to not be duplicated.

This comic was made during the presidential primaries when Hillary and Obama were neck and neck and the Democratic Party was in limbo. Since my site just launched I wanted to get this one posted first before it becomes even less timely.

These comics will rarely reflect the beliefs of my girlfriend or me but rather will just be a play on words.

With banks failing in droves, how have your expectations changed? 13 banks have failed in 2009. Only (and I say only in a VERY relative sense) 25 banks failed in 2008. 3 banks failed in 2007.

Important things to note about bank failures (in easy to understand terms!):

When a bank closes there are a few options, two of the primary being

Welcome to my blog ‘My Life ROI’!

As the name implies, the blog will focus around the return on which we are receiving on our lives as a whole.

I consider a lot of my posts to be heavily “Personal Finance” related, but I tend to side with my sensibilities rather than posting irrational expectations. Although that is a very subjective statement… my goal is to never have a reader say “Who in their right mind would actually do that?!”