OK, as promised, there’s big news to be shared here. That’s why our 30 days of “frugal August” were held up a little bit. I stopped putting up the posts, but will resume and get us all caught up. Pennywise Family is getting a makeover. (A BIG ONE!). Pennywise Family is about to fully appear [...]

I buy what I can used. I don’t usually buy used shoes. I never buy used socks or underwear. I seldom buy used computers. Other than that, it’s all fair game. I have a good relationship with a little children’s consignment shop down the street—a great source for kids’ clothes/toys. My all-time favorite sources are [...]

A guest post by Julie Barclay. Take a moment. Think about the past nine months and how the economic downturn has changed your life. What have you had to give up? What were the changes, the goodbyes and the endings? A year ago Holly and Craig Hunter were loving life. They both had jobs, a [...]

A guest post by Julie Barclay. Take a moment. Think about the past nine months and how the economic downturn has changed your life. What have you had to give up? What were the changes, the goodbyes and the endings? A year ago Holly and Craig Hunter were loving life. They both had jobs, a [...]

I wish I could recall how I learned about this movie, but I heard it was a must-see indie film. Since my interest is in finance, and my family is following the “Total Money Makeover” plan to get out of debt and live life without it, I decided to take a look. This independent documentary [...]

TownHall for Hope is a free event on April 23rd put on by Dave Ramsey and his awesome crew at Financial Peace University. It’s being offered at businesses and churches and Dave Ramsey will take questions live via Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. Visit the Web site by clicking on the calendar reminder below to see [...]

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 to track business [...]

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 [...]

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 new [...]