Friday Fiscals: Tearing up the carpet

We’re ditching our wall-to-wall carpet in much of our house in favor of some laminate flooring. Our dogs don’t quite know what to do with the new hard surfaces. Anyway, some links of interest for you: Wise Bread serves up a guest post on seventeen resources for improving your small business . Five Cent Nickel writer Matt Jabs discusses financial peace through planning . Generation X Finance runs down the best deals for the fall season . Squawkfox posts on how to save heir