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Financial Cartoons to Share
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The Hardest Day to Save
Its getting close…just a few more days…then – Freedom! You get up, get ready for the day, and at some point cruise on over to the computer and check your bank account. YES! Its there! You just got paid…and now the temptation sets in.
This happens to each and everyone of us [...]
Find Out How You Can Win $100!
We have great news! The Money Life Network is running our first ever group writing project. We’re going to all be writing around the general topic of “summer savings”. To make the deal even sweeter, we’re asking you to all join in by commenting, writing your own posts about how you’re saving this [...]
Where To Find Info About Your Money
Where can you go to find the true value of your vehicle? Which website has the best insight into what you are spending your money on? What is your neighborhood going to be like in a few years?
These questions seem impossible to answer but we have found an answer for you. CNN [...]
A Tipping Point to be Free From Broke
I work in the IT industry and it’s a true fact that I am currently making an income that is below both the median income for my industry as well as the median income for my area. Why am I not crying myself to sleep every night and fretting about how I am going [...]
Watch for More Ridiculous Gas Prices
I have a prediction. Albeit not a difficult one, but I would still like your attention. Before the summer is over, gas is going to be $5 a gallon. I know we just discussed the value (perceived value, that is) of buying a hybrid car to try and dissuade the rising cost [...]
Is the Ticketing Industry Taking Advantage?
Within everyone’s budget, there is a place for entertainment and usually the first place we go is Ticket Master to get the latest tickets for shows, sports and other fun things. Thats the good news, there’s something fun to do. The bad news is that Ticket Master is a borderline monopoly (anti-trust) and [...]
How Much Are HDMI Cables?
In my seemingly endless travels in doing research for competitive prices of audio/visual equipment, I came across an interesting little revelation. It is a waste of money to pay the inflated prices of name brand HDMI cables. (HDMI stands for High-Definition Multimedia Interface and is used for almost all HD signals these days. [...]
Earth Day: Make Every Day a Frugal Day
As we can see from Google’s page, it is officially Earth Day 2008! This is a good time to address the environment and within that vein to address the savings that go along with that. More and more products are becoming increasingly available for consumers to both save the environment whether its by [...]
United State’s Newest Epidemic – Insufficient Financial Literacy
Opinion -
Congress, regulators, and the financial services industry are pointing fingers at each other in an attempt to pass the blame regarding who is at fault for our current credit crisis. In reality, everyone probably shares a piece of the blame; however, to leave a lack of sound financial literacy out of the equation [...]
25 Biggest Real Estate Mistakes
Right before I left work today, I read an interesting article at Bible Money Matters, that couldn’t have come at a better time for me. Peter expands upon the notion that purchasing a home, especially for first timers, is a long, complicated and inevitably full of hidden costs. Some of these I had [...]
Jump Start Your Frugality
We hear from a good number of people that they would like to have more money. Not just have more, but make more. They talk about the need to get a better paying job, how they can barely afford to pay the bills and if only they made more money every month, [...]
Cost Analysis of Bottled Water Versus Filtered at Home
Main stream media occasionally drives me nuts. So many times on the Today Show, they go on and on about a certain topic, and then right at the very end, they call in an expert who very succinctly, and sometimes, even intelligently explains how the previous 15 minutes of terrible gloom and doom are [...]
The Importance of Talking About Your Finances with Friends and Family
In a recent Bankrate.com survey they found that 47 percent of survey respondents would rather fess up about their weight, age or monthly mortgage than discuss how much credit card debt they are carrying. There is a certain amount of human embarrassment associated with debt (especially credit card debt), which makes talking about our finances [...]
The Analysis of Location, Location, Location
Real estate experts say that when you are shopping for a house, the three most important things to consider before buying is location, location, location. I recognize the truthiness of this, but working with the legal department at work has wore off on me, (on some unrelated IT matters) I feel the need to challenge [...]
