Budgeting
8 Tips For Your Cell Phone Bill
Sunday was the wonderful obligatory day of watching football all day with friends and a few beers and the conversation turned towards our cell phones. The most common feeling is that no one is terribly happy with what they have; there is always something better. One thing that we would all like to see though [...]
Simple Ways to Save and Make Extra Money Online
Below is a guest post from CouponChief.com, a Web site that provides access to thousands of online store coupons and discount codes–check them out!
With the current economic crisis, people are looking for new ways to save extra cash, especially with the upcoming holiday season. CouponChief.com, a Web site that provides access to thousands of online [...]
Top 10 Tips To Save Money From The Home Depot
The Home Depot wants to know how you save energy in your home in its “Save Money. Save Energy. Win Big.” energy savings video contest. Just shoot a short video to show how you are saving money and helping the environment by making your home more energy efficient.
Log on to www.homedepot.com/youtube to enter your video [...]
12 Hot Tips to Save Water
Even though summer is coming to a close, we should still keep in mind that we need to save money and resources. By resources, I mean the ones that have the most direct impact on us. One of the easiest ways to save is by saving water. Not only will this save money, but water as [...]
Tighten Your Belt Now, Feel Better Later
All day we are inundated with doom and gloom regarding the way the U.S. economy is screaming down into a feirce downward spiral. Gas prices are on fire, homes are in free fall, banks are imploding and the deficit is plummeting faster than a brink in a pond. Obama and McCain are giving half hearted [...]
Staying on Your Family Budget
This is a guest post by Al Jacobs who is a writer for OnTheMoneyTrail.com. He will be featured here about once a month and has a wide breadth of experience. We are happy to work with him and highly recommend that you check him out!
Staying on Your Family Budget
By Al Jacobs
www.OnTheMoneyTrail.com
If you visit google.com, the [...]
Can I Live Without Cable?
The short answer to this is Yes, the long answer is probably No. I will tell you what I am talking about…
We currently have a cable package bundled with our internet that comes with an insane amount of channels. Movies, sports, celebrity, you name it, we got it. In college one my room mates worked [...]
When Is Too Much, Too Much?
We are in the process of looking into buying a house. We found one and have been going over the numbers over and over and determining that our budget would stretch really tight. It would be doable, but our safety net would have to be used for a down payment and we would need to [...]
Investing Like a Millionaire
This is a guest post by Al Jacobs who is a writer for OnTheMoneyTrail.com. He will be featured here about once a month and has a wide breadth of experience. We are happy to work with him and highly recommend that you check him out!
Investing Like a Millionaire
by Al Jacobs
www.onthemoneytrail.com
This title of a recent USA [...]
Maximize More of Your Stuff
I might be biased, but I was pleased with Frank’s article “Wear Things Out.” Had I known he was going to write that, I would have pitched in but I’ll just put in my two cents here, and try not to readdress what he has said already…
Cell Phones
I am currently with Verizon at the moment [...]
Pic.TV’s Preview of An Inconvenient Debt
While our attention is currently abroad in Beijing, watching our fellow citizens win medals left and right (take that France!) we are also keeping an eye on that state of affairs here at home. There is another race coming up soon but won’t commence until long after the Olympics are over: the Presidential Race. This [...]
Milk Your Money Tools
As the internet doubles in size, power, and reach at such an exponential pace, we are evolving our websites to not only display “content,” “opinions,” “news,” and who knows what else. Now we are pointing our links to pure data. The internet does not sleep, its always on, and it loves to crunch data.
So MilkYourMoney.com [...]
MilkYourMoney.com Comments On Proposed Credit Card Rules
Federal banking regulators (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of Thrift Supervision, and the National Credit Union Administration) recently proposed rules that would curb abusive credit card practices that we have long been against. For a detailed summary of all of the proposed rules, click here. Today, August 4, 2008, was [...]
What Are the Frugal Things to Do Where YOU Live?
At the MoneyLifeNetwork, where we have an inordinate amount of data on saving money and making the most of your life, we have a nice little pile of places to visit with all the information inside to provide a frugal visit. But we are not satisfied. We want more! Send us your tips from where [...]
Mortgage Buster: Scam or Savior?
We were recently approached with an interesting question regarding making interest payments. While there are many different ways of manipulating money, the absolute hardest way is to manipulate it to the advantage of the average consumer or homeowner. The house is stacked against us and we are given the pesky task of paying interest on [...]












