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Best of Consumerism Commentary, February 2010
- Needs Versus Wants: The Great Spending Debate
- Take a New Inventory of Your Credit Cards or Pay New Fees
- How to Handle Requests for Financial Advice
- New Credit Card Rules Take Effect Today
- How to Get Audited By the IRS
- Am I a Jerk at Work?
- Realistic Expectations for Making Money Through Blogging
- Variety of Savings Accounts: Where I Keep My Cash
- Which Should You Pay First: Credit Cards or Mortgage?
- Creating a Risk-Free Retirement Plan
- My Current Spending Vices and Devices: Photography and Coins
The Consumerism Commentary Podcast featured more excellent topics and guests including behavioral economics with Gary Belsky, tax tips for big life changes with Bob Meighan, Financial Samurai, and Toyota recalls with Jeff Bartlett from Consumer Reports.
In a few hours, Tom Dziubek and I will be recording a podcast with J.D. Roth from Get Rich Slowly about his new book, Your Money: The Missing Manual. Stay tuned; it will be an exciting show and you will hear it first here on an upcoming Sunday.
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Updated February 6, 2012 and originally published March 3, 2010. If you enjoyed this article, subscribe to the RSS feed or receive daily emails. Follow @flexo on Twitter and visit our Facebook page for more updates.
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Luke Landes founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 and has been building online communities since 1990. Luke, also known as Flexo, has contributed to PC World Magazine, US News, Forbes, and other publications. 
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Needs vs Wants is a good one. I NEED to get out of debt, I don’t necessarily WANT to. I can think of a thousand and one things I’d rather do with the money, but I got myself into the hole, I’ll get myself out.
I’m sure we all know the old phrase, “If you find yourself in a hole, first thing you do is stop digging.”
Good luck!