Best of Blogs for Week of August 1st

Every Friday afternoon I share some of the more interesting or notable posts that I have seen in the personal finance blogs and other sources for the past week

The Big Picture pointed to this nice interactive Degrees of Spending  from site Retale that has BLS spending data on various consumer categories for different education levels.

DoughRoller has a nice list of 22 of the Best Tools to Manage Your Money (most are totally FREE)
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