The American Dream: A Fictional Story

Thanks to Danny Kofke, author of the book Live Wealthy With Little Money, for this portrayal of a family in debt. Jim and Laura are a typical American couple. They just got married last year after dating for four years. Jim is a manager of a local department store and Laura is a school- teacher. They […]

Replacing Leaky Windows – Roundup

Leaky windows are just another in the list of homeowner expenses we’ve run into this summer.  We’ve been in our house a little over a year now and have had all kinds of expenses pop up here and there.  The latest surfaced during a recent storm when we found a leak in one of our […]

Interview Series – Cash Money Life

Ryan Guina shares his experiences with money bullies in this edition of the interview series. In case you missed the explanation of the series, I’m interviewing the speakers at the upcoming Financial Bloggers Conference. As you’ll read in his answers Ryan is a former military man and now runs a site called The Military Wallet where he […]

Interview Series – Go To Retirement

If you’ve ever been to a conference before, you know it’s kind of neat to get a chance to talk to the speakers afterwards and pick their brain.  Usually the people who speak at conference are not only knowledgable but more importantly enjoy talking about their area of expertise and sharing their stories and insights. This […]

Best Cloud Data Storage For Your Money

The best cloud services for your data was the topic of a recent research article by Gizmodo best way to store stuff in the cloud. They provided a great summary chart of the various cloud storage services they reviewed and how much data you can store in each.  The thing I was looking for was […]

What Keeps You Up At Night?

Falling asleep has never been a problem for me but a few weeks ago I went to bed worrying and was up all night tossing and turning. The next day I started thinking about all the things we spend money on to help us sleep at night.  Not mattresses and sleep aids but the big […]

Invasion of the Pests

While most of you have probably been fretting over the national debt, whether it will be paid, and what it will mean for our economy – I’ve been dealing with armies of pests.  Of course, I’m concerned about what will happen with our out-of-control debt but I’ve been pre-occupied with termites eating our house, moles […]

Prenups & Beyond: 6 Tips for Money and Divorce

When you go through a divorce, you not only endure emotional bankruptcy, you could face financial bankruptcy as well.  Divorce is actually a common cause for bankruptcy in the US, more often for women than men.  Although divorce is the probably the last thing on your mind when you get engaged and get married there a […]

Check Engine Light Roundup

My check engine light came on last week during my morning commute to work. I spent the rest of the drive imagining all kinds of things that could be wrong and how much each one would cost to fix.  A co-worker suggested I go to an O’reilly or AutoZone and ask them to put on […]

Do It Yourself Lessons Roundup

How did you spend your Mother’s Day weekend?  Our’s was consumed by putting together our kid’s new playset.  We spent all day Saturday and Sunday putting it up and then I had to take a day off work on Monday to get it finished. We had considered hiring someone to assemble the playset for us […]

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