This promotional giveaway has ended, thank you to everyone who entered!

Yesterday I reviewed Financial Infidelity by Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil and today I’m happy to announce that I have three copies to give away to folks who were interested.

How To Win

If you are interested, there are two ways you can enter:

• Leave a comment bringing up any sort of “couples and finance” question you may have. A good example is whether, before or after marriage, you should combine your finances. Another one is how a spender and a saver could address and perhaps work out a compromise before taking the plunge. Please be creative in your question.
• Subscribe to receive posts by email. I said in the past that anyone subscribed to the feed via email were automatically entered into giveaways and I’m sticking to it. So, if you aren’t subscribed, you can subscribe. If you are subscribed, good luck!

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Congratulations to Kaligirl, Brandon, and Raymond!

The contest has ended and the winners have been notified.

One of the PR firms representing H&R Block sent me three USB keys loaded with their TaxCut software and I’m going to give you all a chance to win them. I know April 15th is coming upon us soon, less than a month away, so this contest will only be running until this Friday. Some quick requirements if you want one:

• Please don’t enter if you already did your taxes or you can do them for free.
• Please live in the US (I know it’s obvious but sometimes people don’t realize it, this is for tax prep in the US!)
• Then, please leave a comment with your favorite Laffy Taffy joke ever, and/or,
• Sign up to receive these posts via email from Feedburner.

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On Friday I will select the funniest joke, one email subscriber, and then one at random from both lists; email them, and hopefully mail out the keys on Saturday.

Good luck!

This promotion has ended, thank you to everyone who entered!

Earlier this week I shared a list of free tax preparation services, so why not end the week with a tax-related giveaway? I was contacted by a PR representative of H&R Block and offered two online codes that would allow two hardworking Americans the ability to take advantage of H&R Block’s TaxCut online service absolutely free.

I ask two things of you:

• Please read this list of free tax preparation services. Don’t enter if you can get it for free!
• Please share with me either the craziest tax related story you heard, the more ridiculous tax deduction you’ve ever heard, or your favorite tax related joke in the comments. (no story/deduction/joke, no entry!)

How will I pick the winner? One winner will be selected at random, one winner will be selected by me.

When does it end? I will select two winners on February 15th, email them, and the PR company will send out the codes as soon as they can. If I email you on the 15th and you don’t respond by the end of the business day on the 19th (Tuesday), I’m picking someone else (sorry!). Tax day is coming up soon so I don’t want to dilly dally, whatever the heck that means.

Good luck!

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This contest is now closed.

The fine folks at FSB Associates send me two copies of Deepak Malhotra and Max Bazerman’s Negotiation Genius and I’m giving them away to the fine readers of Blueprint for Financial Prosperity. If you read my review of Negotiation Genius, you’ll remember that I thought this book was excellent, which isn’t surprising since it’s finds it origins from the Harvard Business School.

So, in order to win you simply need to leave a comment with your one best negotiation tip. It can be a tip when you’re sitting at the negotiation table, it can be a tip about research and preparation, or it can be something pointing to the psychology behind negotiation. I will select one commenter at random and the one comment that I feel is the best negotiation tip of the bunch. The one I feel is the best is entirely subjective, so by entering you agree to the rules as I’ve explained and agree not to contest the results.

This contest will end on 31 October with the ghosts and the goblins and I’ll draw a name the next day.