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 [...]
What Are Your 2011 Goals?
November 28, 2010
Thanksgiving just ended and your New Years resolutions are probably the farthest thing from your mind right now. But we all know times flies so before you know it we’ll be in 2011. If you wait to set your goals until next year has already begun you’ll be starting out behind. People who start their [...]
What Can You Learn About Money From a Turkey Dinner?
November 25, 2010
The planning and preparation of a Thanksgiving dinner can teach us a few lessons about money. 1) Don’t Be Afraid To Fail Every year my wife cooks a new dish for the family Thanksgiving dinner. Some years she goes through multiple failed attempts before finding the dish that turns out the way she wants it. [...]
What’s in Your Wallet?
November 7, 2010
You probably already know most of the things in my wallet but there are two things that you might find most interesting. I’ll start off with the stuff you know because I’ve written about it before. I don’t keep all my credit cards in my wallet, just the Blue Cash and Chase Freedom cards because those are [...]
