Getting Started
Five Reasons to be Skeptical About Your Finances
This is a guest post by Al Jacobs, the author of OnThe MoneyTrail.com.
A running debate continues over the use of credit cards. Much of the controversy involves matters like annual fees, interest rates on the unpaid balance, and the use of an account to establish credit. Articles abound [...]
Seven Strategies that Entrepreneurs Must Apply
This is a guest post by Al Jacobs, the author of Nobody’s Fool: A Skeptic’s Guide to Prosperity
A popular comic strip dating back to the 1930s declared that “Heroes are made, not born.” Each day the misfortunes of the main protagonist were humorously revealed as he invariably caused things to go wrong. The moral, easily [...]
Back to Basics in 2009
For many a new year brings a new hope. It means that your taxes are just about ready to be filed, and new resolutions are ready to be attempted. My take on resolutions are that they shouldn’t be tied to jsut the beginning of the year but should be laid in place and maintained with [...]
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 [...]
Ask Us Anything!
We have decided to open the mail bag for comments and are curious to know more about our readers as well as field some of the tough questions out there regarding finance, be it personal, stock market or otherwise. What are you curious about? What is weighing heavy on your mind? Looking for a plan [...]
Jump Start Your Savings
Back in April, I wrote an article about Jump Starting Your Frugality, and it has seemingly been well received. Now we are going to approach this from another angle: Savings!
Getting your savings in order is a tricky thing…It’s just enough ‘out of sight, out of mind’ that you can easily dismiss it throughout the day [...]
How Much Were Your Closing Costs?
Do you remember closing on your first home loan? You sit down in a small room with your realtor, the seller, the seller’s realtor, and a title agency. The agency plops a huge stack of documents in front of you and one by one, you sign your paychecks away. If you are [...]
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 [...]
The Money Life Network
First off, I hope that everyone had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and paid tributes to the men and women who have given so much in order for us to have the best country in the world. Knowing all that was done for us in the past and in the present is humbling and [...]
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, [...]
My Dumbest Purchase Ever
Today I would like to reflect on one of my most infamous purchases. This was a long time ago and has since drilled some nice principles into my spending habits and the way I spend money. I still make mistakes now and again but this was one of the first that really hit home that [...]
Analysis of “The 11 Principles” by Money Crashers
MoneyCrashers.com has an article a list about a few principles regarding money and we would like to address them. Over all, its a great list. Feel free to comment!
1. Always spend less than you make.
Naturally, this is in first place as it keeps the saver moving in the right direction, regardless of how fast or [...]
Monthly Round Up for February
Every month we will gather up some of our most well received posts and quotes, in case they were missed as well as to give some financial highlights to consider for the month ahead. We will also discuss some of our sites traffic activity.
We had quite a successful first month! We had well over 3,550 visitors this [...]
