PocketSmith User Review

PocketSmith user Hugo Vitorino was actually the first person I contacted for a PocketSmith review but due to life events he wasn’t able to offer his feedback on the new online personal finance software and you heard from the New Zealander Sam Law. Hugo was also a member of the original beta test group and […]

Lending Money to Family – Reader Struggle

Lending money to family and friends is no picnic, just ask Brandon. He’s a reader who left the comments below on the post from earlier this year about lending money to family. “My wife’s family does not have much care when it comes to money. they don’t make very much, have horrible credit, and their kids […]

Money Ning

Money Ning is the personal finance site I’m highlighting this week, run by David Ning.  I don’t remember the first time I visited his site but I do remember at the time not knowing his last name and wondering what in the world a Ning was : )  You may remember David from the Budget Travel […]

Mortgages and the Housing Market On My Mind

Buying and selling houses, and living with the resulting mortgage payments, is something our family thought a lot about last month.  The home buyer tax credit for existing home owners got us started investigating putting our house on the market.  As we cleaned out the garage and tried to decide if real estate agents are worth the money we weighed the […]

Debt Free Adventure

Debt is a nasty creature and if you’re fighting it, you should check out the site Debt Free Adventure, authored by Matt Jabs. As you can tell from his about page and twitter profile, Matt takes a biblical view on the principles of debt reduction and financial stewardship. The Bible doesn’t hold debt in very […]

PocketSmith User Review

PocketSmith is an online personal finance software tool that uses a calendar based approach to planning your finances.  One of the PocketSmith co-founders, Francois Bondiguel, asked me if I’d like to try out the software and write up a PocketSmith review.  Since I have too much on my plate already I declined. However, since I think […]

Thanksgiving – 24 Daily Thankful Moments

Thanksgiving seemed the perfect time for me to look at things that I complain about in my daily life and to instead look for reasons to be thankful for them. What I did was break down a day into 1 hour chunks, look at something I typically complain about in each of those time slots, […]

My Two Dollars

This week I recommend you check out My Two Dollars, written by David. Like many personal finance bloggers he doesn’t consider himself a financial expert, but rather blogs about his own experiences with money; such as being in-over-his head in debt, getting married and then changing career paths. I’m actually a little jealous of David […]

PTMoney – Personal Finance by Phil Taylor

This week I recommend you check out PT Money, written by Phil Taylor (PT). His blog focuses on his own experiences managing money and he has help from his super frugal wife, too! I first ran across Phil when he was part of the FNBO Direct Pay Yourself First money challenge, here’s his video entry […]

Open Enrollment Deadlines

Open enrollment deadlines are one date you don’t want to miss.  Choosing the best insurance options and benefits at your job is an important part of your personal finances. Open Enrollment Window October and November are the time when many companies have open enrollment, a time period during which you can make changes to your […]

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