Financial Maintenance to Keep Your Money Engine Running Smooth
May 26, 2007
Just like every business has support tasks that keep the income generation going, every household has financial housekeeping that needs to be done to keep expenditures low and things running efficiently. I usually have too many things going on at once and tend to neglect some of these support tasks so this weekend I decided […]
Personal Finance Midweek Review – PayPal Reports Edition
May 24, 2007
PayPal has new reporting features that allow users to get a good overview of all their online financial activity for a specified time period. I use PayPal for the majority of my online transactions so I was eager to try out the new reports when I saw them announced today. The report I looked at […]
Donald Trump, You’re Fired!
May 23, 2007
What goes around comes around Donald. For six seasons now Trump has “fired” a different aspiring business person every night in his television show “The Apprentice”. Television viewers have now fired Trump as the show’s ratings have fallen by nearly two thirds since the first breakout season. Some may disagree with me but the end […]
How To Avoid Losing Your Paycheck
May 23, 2007
Several months after getting married my cleanly wife was a little too ambitious in her cleaning and threw her first paycheck in the trash. Luckily, I discovered it the next day before the trash man came and after an hour of digging through the dumpster in our apartment complex I unearthed the precious check. Needless […]
Personal Finance Week in Review – Expensive Haircut Edition
May 20, 2007
We took our little guy to get his first haircut last weekend. It was a fun experience, at least until the lady gave us the bill. I couldn’t believe it cost $12 to cut a baby’s hair! He wasn’t in the chair more than 5 minutes; at that rate hairdressers could make $144 an hour […]
Top 5 Reasons You’ll Never Go Broke Again!
May 9, 2007
Here’s a collection of top money tips that will have you living on easy street, or at least keep you out of the poor house. Thanks to Problogger for inspiring all of these top 5 lists: The Top 5 Ways to Become a Millionaire Top 5 Ways To Save Money Without Noticing The Top Five […]
Why Your Mom is the Engine of Growth in the Global Economy
May 8, 2007
Without your mom and my mom, the global economy would fall apart. Here are the top five reasons why mothers are vital to the growth of our economy: Moms Influence Spending Decisions Running a household means spending money. Over the course of her busy life, a mother will purchase many different products or services for […]
Personal Finance Week in Review – No Air Conditioning Edition
May 6, 2007
How much does a new air conditioning unit cost? We just made the unpleasant discovery this morning that our central air isn’t working so I’m assuming the worst, thousands of dollars to get it fixed. I’ll have someone come look at it first thing on Monday; hopefully the wallet damage won’t be too bad. I […]
Why You Should Become a Personal Finance Blogger
May 4, 2007
Writing about personal finance will definitely help you learn about money. Lazy Man lists ten ways personal finance blogging has helped him with money. Here are thirteen lucky reasons, in no particular order, that you should become a personal finance blogger: You can answer your friends questions at work about their 401k investments. You can […]
Lazy Online Banking
May 4, 2007
This week’s reader question comes from Binary Dollar. He is covering the question of what to look for in an online bank account. My contribution wasn’t as thorough as some of the other answers because I setup our online bank account more on a whim than as a result of exhaustive research. ING Direct We […]
