Giving You More at Currency & Wise Bread
November 3, 2010
You’ve been reading personal finance tips on Money Smart Life for over four years now if you’ve been a reader the whole time. Periodically during that time you may have seen me mention that I’d written something as a guest on another site. Typically I meet some neat new readers as part of this process, [...]
Is an MBA Worth the Money?
October 25, 2010
Whether an MBA is worth the money can be answered in two words – it depends. The type of graduate degree, your industry, the graduate school, your goals, the cost, and many other factors determine whether it would be worth it to you. I spent several years going to school in the evenings to get [...]
Just for Kids Weekend
October 10, 2010
Our kids had an awesome weekend! The weather was perfect here in the Midwest and we knew before long our little ones would be cooped up by the winter weather so we let them enjoy the outdoors. I think a local festival and neighborhood carnival were the highlights of our son’s weekend. Although they had a blast we didn’t [...]
Should You Even Bother With Non-Reward Cards?
October 9, 2010
Today’s post is a guest article from Go Banking Rates that takes a look at how rewards cards can be hazardous to your financial health if the incentives they offer actually cause you to spend more money, wiping out the benefits of the rewards. Credit card companies employ plenty of tactics to hook customers and [...]
Your Mortgage Dating Guide
September 26, 2010
Other than deciding to get married, buying a house is probably the biggest financial decision you’ll make in your life. Many of us sink an enormous amount of time and effort into finding the perfect spouse, and rightly so. But how many people put enough thought into finding the right home mortgage? I recently started contributing [...]
What is Your Personalized Savings Plan?
September 18, 2010
Our retirement plan administator sent us a list of 8 steps to follow to help us save our money. They point out that contributing to our 401k should be just one part of a more comprehensive savings plan. According to them, the first four steps below are a “must-do” and should be done in the [...]
Keeping Our Basement Dry
September 12, 2010
Water can do some nasty damage to your house and I’m not just talking about rivers and creeks overflowing their banks and invading your home. During our process of buying a new house and selling our old house we saw the results of what water can do to a home if not properly managed. I’ve [...]
Ultimate Moving Checklist for Your Money
August 25, 2010
Your moving checklist is not complete without adding to-do’s to protect your money. One of the important things to realize about moving is that it comes with financial consequences. Whether you are moving across town, or moving across the country, it is important to make a list of the money moves you will have to [...]
Moving All Our Junk
August 22, 2010
As you can tell from the first two groups of articles below there are two things on my mind this weekend: houses and saving money. I’m spending all weekend moving boxes into our new house; I told my wife I haven’t been this sore since soccer pre-season training back in college. I think every muscle [...]
AT&T Uverse vs Comcast Triple Play
August 20, 2010
We have the Comcast Triple Play package and have been a Comcast customer for 10 years but may soon switch to AT&T Uverse when we move. If you’ve ever had to pay the fees involved when selling your house and buying a house, you’ll know the last thing you want to do when moving is [...]
