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Win-It Wednesday: Financial Tools from Jean Chatzky (2 Winners!)

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Join me every week for Win-It Wednesday. I’ll be posting several 24-hour giveaways throughout the day to give you plenty of chances to win!

Jean Chatzky Pay It Down

Back in November I had the pleasure of participating in an audiocast with the Today Show financial expert, Jean Chatzky, author of Pay It Down! Debt Free on $10 a Day. Not only did she share some really great tips on spending and saving for the holidays, but she gave us the inside scoop on her new line of financial planning products from Franklin Covey that are now available in Target stores across the nation.

  • The Monthly Budget Kit will allow you to track and manage all your spending for the entire year. There’s a tracking sheet and pocket for each month so you’ll always have a record of your expenses, bills, and receipts.
  • The Get-Out-Of-Debt Kit comes with helpful debt reduction tips from Jean Chatzky, and tracking sheets and pockets for six separate items, so you can track all your debt in one simple 3-ring binder.
  • The Savings Kit includes great savings tips from Jean Chatzky, clear sleeves to hold the images of what you’re saving for, and tracking sheets and pockets for six separate items, so you can track all your goals in one simple 3-ring binder.
  • Plus the To Buy List makes determining the difference between needs and wants and reasons for each manageable. There’s even a section to keep track of coupon savings!

But I think what I like best about these products is that they’re really geared towards women with their needs and thought processes in mind. They’re attractive, yet not overly feminine, and can be easily customized to fit your overall financial strategy.

Two lucky Deal Seeking Mom readers will each win a set of Jean Chatzky financial planning tools:

  • Pay It Down! by Jean Chatzky
  • Needs & Wants To Buy List
  • Monthly Budget Kit
  • Get-Out-Of-Debt Kit
  • Savings Kit

To enter, tell me about your financial goals for 2010!

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Every reader has four methods available to enter this contest. Choose one each of any combination of method one, two, three, or four for up to a total of 4 entries!!!

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Methods of entry:

1. Leave a comment. What are your financial goals in 2010?

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3. Join the new Deal Seeking Mom Forums to chat about your great finds, special coupon codes, and chances to win exclusive giveaways. Come back and leave a separate comment letting me know you’ve joined or that you’re already a registered user!

4. Subscribe to my feed via RSS or email. You must confirm your email subscription for it to be a valid entry! Leave a separate comment letting me know you have done so. If you’re already a subscriber, simply leave a separate comment letting me know you’re already subscribed. Lovin’ my subscribers! You guys make this all possible.

Prize:
(2) Financial Planning Sets from Jean Chatzky, as described above

This giveaway ends at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 1/28 and is open to all U.S. residents 18 years or older. I’ll use Random.org to select the winning comments. Winners will be notified by email and listed on my Giveaway Winners page. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize. Good luck!

While you’re in a contest entering mood, don’t forget to check out the Giveaway Gathering for a variety of contests being hosted on Deal Seeking Mom readers’ blogs!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  2. Tammy K.

    I subscribe…. my goal is to have 6 bills paid off BY JUNE 1! I have one almost there!! I am so excited about having the extra money to pay on 3 larger bills to get them paid off by June of next year! I want to take my family on a cruise for our vacation next July. I KNOW I CAN DO IT WITH SPECIAL THANKS to your site of showing me how to use coupons and other discounts to stock up on everything!! a BIG THANK YOU COMES TO YOU DEALSEEKINGMOM!!!

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  3. Joie

    I saw Jean’s kits in a Target in a town I visited- I thought about picking them up when I saw them, but figured out I would wait til I got home and purchase them from the Target in my town. Well, my Target doesn’t carry them! Grr….

    My goals in 2010- to have my 2 major credit cards paid off- I have been working on this for years- and have paid off 2 others completely! Only 2 to go! After that, those silly pesky store cards.

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  9. carli

    Goals…we would like to have 8 months researve set aside in a savings account and we would like to pay off my car early. So far we are at 3.5 months…and we have made a budget.

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  10. Heather G.

    We are blessed to be on a budget and debt-free except for the mortgage so our budget goals are a little different than most: our church is taking a group on a guided tour of Israel so we are saving up to pay cash for that trip. If we weren’t debt-free then we wouldn’t be able to pay cash for this trip (which means we would be missing out on a trip of a lifetime!).

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  15. monica

    Luckily, I don’t have much debt but a little student loan. My mom is in over her head with debt. Hopefully I’ll win this book and give it to her. She needs serious help.

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  18. Kelly Wolkenhauer

    I have been looking at different tools to help pay off debt in 2010. This would really be a tremendous help! It’s just that part of where to begin!

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  24. Deb

    We have 3 months of living expenses in savings, no debt except our house which is well within our budget, so our goal would be more savings.

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