Sunday Money Madness is back again this week under the header of the Hurricane Gustav and Tropical Storm Hanna. Rainy and windy weather is about to bombard the southeast again and looks like Louisiana, and Texas are going to take the brunt of the category four hurricane. For those living in those states, stay safe and be careful.

Weekend reading material:

• A simple system to keep financial records at Digerati Life is one way to clear that desk of clutter.
• 8 summer fun activities that won’t break the bank by The Smarter Wallet provides some wonderful strategies to prevent boredom even in winter months.
• Cash Money Life posts this week with save big on back to school computers – excellent shopping advice.
• The Dough Roller publishes 50 Ways to Make Money Blogging. With such a list can you think of anything to add or does it look complete to you?
• Mighty Bargain Hunter writes save money when you’re young and this is good advice because when you’re young you only have to worry about yourself.
• Five Cent Nickel asks in the wake of an outage: is HSBC Direct reliable? This post is full of information detailing the issues at hand and what’s going on with HSBC Direct.
• Five Repairs That Should Be Done by a Professional written by Not Made of Money is very sound advice. For your own repair projects check out Handy Man for an ever growing list of ways to improve and fix up your home.
• Updated Prosper Lending Strategy / Tips Prefaced By Comments on Prior Lending Failures at Plugged-in Finance looks at one person’s strategy. What are your Prosper Lending Strategies?
• CNN Money headlines FDIC announces 10th bank failure of the year.

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