I don’t know about you, but medical bills have been hitting our house like no body’s business! I honestly can’t believe the rate they’re flocking in right now despite our relatively good health, and decent health insurance.
An ear infection here, a broken tooth there, and routine prescriptions are a truly massive part of our [...]

I don’t know if you’ve seen the art exhibit about e-waste recently, but it’s shocking how many electronic gadgets we “consume” worldwide in the form of mobile phones, batteries, cameras, etc. Some of these have lived beyond their usefulness. I have on my desk, and old mobile phone/PDA and a digital camera that no [...]

I posted a few weeks ago about making your own laundry detergent. Now I’ve been after dishwasher detergent. There’s a great web site called “Dollar Stretcher” and they have some recipes for home-made dishwasher detergent.
You just put one tablespoon Borax and one tablespoon baking soda in the detergent compartment. For “add rinse agent” [...]

Are you spending less than you make? Are you sure? Better double-check, just in case.

I’m getting ready for the Town Hall for Hope on Thursday and thinking about what are the true, simple and basic facts about personal finance. The bottom line really is that you must spend less than you make.

The origins [...]

I’ve been listening to the Audiobook “Total Money Makeover” by Dave Ramsey. This is available from Audible.com, and I highly recommend it. If you want to download the book, I’ve attached a coupon here for two free books.
One tip that Mr. Ramsey offers that I find especially interesting is that to know [...]

If you’ve checked out the past three posts about aggregators that work directly with your online banking and you’re not comfortable with that, I understand. There’s a pretty spiffy Web site that works similarly called BudgetTracker. It’s a calendar based system that works from information that you provide. It also allows you [...]

Ok, this catches us up to Monday, and we’re almost back on financial-literacy track.

For those of you who are brave, empowered and socially-fearless, you might like to try the “twitter of budgets” (As I’m so-dubbing it). Geezeo.com is a frightfully-social way of playing with your budget. I do think this could make budgeting fun [...]

My apologies for the delayed posts. I took a few days to enjoy the Easter Holiday with the family, and I’m back to writing feeling refreshed, renewed and most of all, saved.
Today’s topic (well, Friday’s actually) is budgeting. We all know we should budget. Most of us even have a rough mental budget. But how [...]

This is day 4 in a series for the month of April: Financial Literacy Month.I stumbled upon The Motley Fool a long time ago. I remember learning about stock-trading via a game they had (way back when E*Trade first launched). I have since kept using Motley Fool occasionally whenever I want to learn something [...]

I’ve been a personal finance “hobbyist” since I first saw Suze Orman on TV a few years ago, and discovered that you don’t have to have money to be involved in your finances.
Seriously though, I got involved in my retirement planning, and household budgeting. We paid off our cars early and “burned the candle at [...]