Student Credit Card Reader Question

A reader, Iris, wrote in with a question about the best student credit card for her son: “Hi- Your website is very helpful. My son is in med school-no income, big loan. I’m helping him shop for a credit card to build a credit rating(he uses debit card usually). What’s best for him-Capital one no […]

Mortgages and the Housing Market On My Mind

Buying and selling houses, and living with the resulting mortgage payments, is something our family thought a lot about last month.  The home buyer tax credit for existing home owners got us started investigating putting our house on the market.  As we cleaned out the garage and tried to decide if real estate agents are worth the money we weighed the […]

Debt Free Adventure

Debt is a nasty creature and if you’re fighting it, you should check out the site Debt Free Adventure, authored by Matt Jabs. As you can tell from his about page and twitter profile, Matt takes a biblical view on the principles of debt reduction and financial stewardship. The Bible doesn’t hold debt in very […]

PocketSmith User Review

PocketSmith is an online personal finance software tool that uses a calendar based approach to planning your finances.  One of the PocketSmith co-founders, Francois Bondiguel, asked me if I’d like to try out the software and write up a PocketSmith review.  Since I have too much on my plate already I declined. However, since I think […]

Thanksgiving – 24 Daily Thankful Moments

Thanksgiving seemed the perfect time for me to look at things that I complain about in my daily life and to instead look for reasons to be thankful for them. What I did was break down a day into 1 hour chunks, look at something I typically complain about in each of those time slots, […]

TradeKing New Account Overview

The Tradeking promotion that runs through the end of the month reminded me of a conversation I had with a co-worker last Spring about online brokerage accounts. She’s from a different generation and doesn’t feel comfortable opening a stock trading account on the Internet. Her son suggested she open her own account but she had […]

Black Friday & Christmas Shopping Tips

I was looking back through the posts on the site from last November and saw a bunch of posts on Christmas shopping, Black Friday, etc.  The shopping season is here again so here are some tips on budgeting, shopping, and holiday deals: Black Friday Deals or Cyber Monday Savings? Christmas Budgeting – Building A Christmas […]

Cleaning Out the Garage

Our garage hasn’t been this clean and organized since we moved into our house! Since we’re debating selling our house my wife is on a de-cluttering mission so we spent the whole weekend cleaning out our garage. Organization Saves Money One thing I was reminded of as we worked is how you can save money by […]

My Two Dollars

This week I recommend you check out My Two Dollars, written by David. Like many personal finance bloggers he doesn’t consider himself a financial expert, but rather blogs about his own experiences with money; such as being in-over-his head in debt, getting married and then changing career paths. I’m actually a little jealous of David […]

House Hunting Tips for Busy Parents

After several nights of weighing the pros and cons of buying a house one thing we realized is that we simply didn’t have enough information to make a good decision. We haven’t been in the real estate market for years now so we don’t really know what our house will sell for or what we […]

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