Organizing Your Finances – Farnoosh Torabi Interview
February 1, 2011
Keeping your records organized is an important part of keeping your personal finances straight. We use online bill pay for all our recurring bills and charge most everything else on a cash back credit card. We use the Blue Cash card not only for the cash back but also because it gives us a nice […]
Frozen Pipes Roundup
January 30, 2011
Frozen pipes can be one of the hazards of living in the Midwest in the winter. There’s a huge snow storm making it’s way into the heartland, to be followed by an “arctic blast” of freezing cold temperatures – as the weather people love to call it. Here are some tips our water company gave […]
Free Financial Advice 2011
January 24, 2011
One of the best things my wife and I did for our money after we were married was sit down with a certified financial planner and hash out our finances. I remember we weren’t crazy about spending the money but after we worked with our finanial advisor to come up with our financial plan we […]
Don’t Get Bamboozled Like These Professional Athletes
January 17, 2011
This is a guest post by Jeff Rose. Jeff Rose is an Illinois Certified Financial Planner and co-founder of Alliance Investment Planning Group. He is also the author of Good Financial Cents, a financial planning and investment blog and he is currently working on his first book entitled Soldier of Finance. You can see more […]
Vacation Without Kids
January 16, 2011
With all the talk of rental car insurance and rental car rewards you might have been able to tell we’re going on vaction. This is a monumental one, it’s the first time we’ll have been away from our daughter for more than a night since she’s been born. Our son is excited to visit his grandparents and be […]
Why I Joined a Gang
January 8, 2011
It all started back in 2006 when I started chatting with a guy named Henry about personal finance and blogging. We became friends and started connecting with other people who were interested enough in personal finance to write about it every day online. We were all going through similar things and got a lot out of […]
What’s the Soundtrack to Your Life?
January 6, 2011
If you had to pick one song to be the soundtrack for your life, what would it be? That’s the question I recently asked the readers of the Money Smart Life newsletter. Here’s what I wrote: What’s Your Theme Song for Life? See, music reminds us of where we’ve been and inspires us towards where […]
Happy New Year
December 31, 2010
What are your big plans for 2011? For years, I’d start out January 1st full of good intentions but my momentum always seemed to fizzle out by mid-February. Then, right after graduating from college, I finally got serious about following through and started to see real results. Almost all the success I’ve had in life […]
Merry Christmas!
December 25, 2010
I hope you’re having a merry Christmas! Our four year old son has made this one of the most enjoyable holidays in a long time. His excitement and wonder have been contagious. It’s neat to think back to a time when even the smallest things could be so exciting. He didn’t get that many presents […]
Why I Quit My Job
December 17, 2010
I just finished watching an episode of the TV show “The Office” and it started me thinking about how and why I quit my previous job. I imagine my story isn’t all that different from yours if you’ve ever left a job you were unhappy with. If I had to guess, there were probably some […]
