I am so glad today is Friday. It has been a long week and I am greatly looking forward to the weekend. Here are some interesting articles I found this week in the personal finance area:

What Debit Card Companies Don’t Tell You at Yahoo Finance. We are very careful when using our debit card. I’ve stopped using my debit card when paying for gas at the pump. Last year in our area quite a few people had their debit cards skimmed when they filled up at a local station. As far as I know, they still haven’t caught the culprits.

My Two Dollars discusses the best places to put that tax refund you are getting.

Blunt Money talks about the things we forget - those lovely once or twice a year expenses we can easily forget to budget for.