Best Money Tips: First Signs of Spring

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Spring is in the air, and this means that it's time to dust the blinds, quit your job, set up a home office, and pay down your credit cards. Or just read through some of the best personal finance posts of the week and save vicariously through them. Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup!

• Trent at The Simple Dollar offers some insight as to how he got started as one of the most popluar personal finance bloggers on the web.
• The Digerati Life gives some great tips on how to set up a home office.
• Urban gardening and living off the land when there isn't that much of it - impossible? Donna Freedman at MSN Money says it can be done.
• Confused about the "Making Work Pay" Tax Credit? Kiplinger explains the 5 key things you need to know.
• If medical bills are about to overwhelm you, have you ever considered haggling over them? Bargaineering tells you how.
• Since no one can afford to pay for college anymore, it's time to get your 5-year old started on their scholarship applications (OK, Debt Free Scholar isn't THAT snarky about it, with 10 tips for scholarship apps)
• Baffled by the Making Work Pay tax credit? Kiplinger explains it to you. Because they're nice.
• Christian PF clues you into 6 things you can buy that will pay for themselves in a year.
• Have you been wondering if you qualify for a new mortgage under the Make Housing Affordable Act? Gen X Finance tells you where to go to figure it all out.
• Earth Day got you thinking about green investing? Why green-trending business investing might not be worth your money, from Moolanomy.
• Weakonomics points out that even if you still have a job, your insurance premiums will probably go up (it's the economy, stupid).
• Dumb Little Man shares 5 commonly-held work-out and health-related fallacies that may change the way you exercise.
• Man v Debt lists four ways that credit card companies try to squeeze more out of you, originally posted on Yahoo.

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