The Sad Tale of Gansel and Hetel

The plight of Hansel and Gretel is known to many but have you ever heard the sad story of Gansel and Hetel?
Two middle class kids “adrift” in the consumerist shopping mall culture take a bath in debt and almost ruin their lives… can they be saved?
Bad Health & Bad Luck
Gansel and Hetel had it rough [...]

Teach Your Kids How to Manage Money in 7 Easy Lessons

As a parent, you are responsible for teaching your kids how to manage money. No matter what their age, children should start learning how to manage money throughout their childhood. Children taught these lesson turn tend to turn into financially responsible adults instead of jobless and in debt adults sitting on their parents’ couches watching [...]

Personal Budgeting Styles & Tools

Personal budgeting can be a different process for each person.  When I talked about how personal budget tracking can save you money, I used an example of how my employer saves money by tracking each piece of paper we print.
I showed how the act of tracking each job before it’s printed and assigning it to [...]

Personal Budget Tracking Creates Results

Does your personal budget have holes in it, where the money just oozes out without you realizing it?  Do you have a system in place to track how the money in your budget is actually spent?
If not, here’s a story that might convince you to track your money more closely. It begins several years ago [...]

Missing a Mortgage Payment

I’ve written before about the dangers of online bill pay, one of the dangers I mention is assuming all your bills are paid automatically.  The advice I gave is to check your statements regularly, even if the payments are automated.
Well, I didn’t take my own advice and I got a call from my mortgage company today [...]

Summer Spending Trends

Do you tend to spend more money in the summer or less?  We spend more time doing outside activities that cost nothing, like going to the park or going for a walk.  But typically we do tend to do more travelling in the summer which can add up pretty quick.
Quicken Online looked at how people reported [...]

Costs of Raising Children – Kid Expenses Continued

Yesterday I wrote about the costs of raising children and got a few emails reminding me of some of the costs that I left off the list.  I don’t know how I missed some of these like childcare and insurance since they’re pretty big chunks of money.  I guess there are so many expenses it’s [...]

Costs of Raising Children

Being a parent can be a lot of fun but it can also be quite expensive.  If you’re thinking about having children, make sure you budget in enough cash each month for all the different ways kids can cost you money.
Health Care
Medicine
It seems kids, at least young ones, are always getting sick.  I’m sure part of it [...]

Save Money by Selling Your Car?

Selling your car could save you significant amounts of money over the long term on maintenance, parking, insurance, and fuel according to the Financial Planning Association.  Of course not everyone can go without a vehicle but here are some questions to ask yourself if you’re considering selling your car to help save money.
What’s the current [...]

Financial Advisor Profile – Jean Keener

Jean Keener is another financial planner I had the pleasure of meeting in person after the financial advisor websites list I put together a while back. As we chatted about financial planning and blogging I was reminded of the search my wife and I went on to find a financial planner right after we were married. 
Finding [...]

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