Free Health Screenings & Healthy Lifestyle Tips

As the health care debate rages across the country, one of the things that’s often overlooked is how much money we could save with better preventative medicine.  It’s often much cheaper to invest time and money up front to help prevent, delay, or minimize expensive medical conditions, yet our insurance system is setup with the […]

How Much Money are You Hiding in Your Swiss Bank Account?

The Bank Secrecy Act requires United States citizens holding a financial interest in, or signature or other authority over, a bank, securities or other financial account in a foreign country to report these accounts to the government. Of course just because there’s a law requiring you to report the money doesn’t mean that people have abided […]

Quicken Discounts Thanks to Microsoft Money

Quicken discounts of $20 off Quicken Deluxe and Quicken Premier are available for the next two weeks. Intuit is running the special offer since the personal finance software Microsoft Money is no longer available for sale. Microsoft Money Discountinued Although Microsoft Money will be supported through the end of 2010 many long time Money users are […]

Budget Travel Book Winners

The budget travel tips are in and the random number generator has selected some winners!   David is giving away two copies of his book in the contest and since we had so many useful entries I’m going to ship copies to two more readers. Here are the winners as chosen by Random.org along with their budget […]

Best Financial Advice You Wish You’d Taken

What’s the best financial advice that you’ve heard, but then ignored?  Can you think of a piece of advice that you wish you had followed? Of course, you may have more than one but what’s the discarded advice that really sticks out in your mind, or that would have had the biggest financial impact? Here […]

Financial Planner Profile – Neil Vannoy

After putting together the financial planner websites with blogs list a few weeks ago I got a chance to meet a few of them in person at an event.  One of the planners I got to visit with was Neil Vannoy of Vannoy Advisory Group. Getting Acquainted Neil’s a Certified Financial Planner in Texas and apparently […]

Angies List Contractor Service Follow Up

Angies List called me up yesterday to follow up on the contractors that I’d been searching for.  When you signup for Angies List you set in your profile what contractors you’re looking to hire and they wanted to get my feedback on the company that I’d worked with.  What kind of experience I had, was I […]

Cash for Clunkers

Cas for Clunkers has been the source of a lot of debate over the last few weeks.  Here’s a funny “crash for clunkers” video followed by a range of thoughts and opinions on the Cash for Clunkers program. (You’ll have to wait through a 15 second commercial on the video, you can’t fast forward, I […]

Alternative Energy Saves the Day

Our nation’s main sources of energy won’t always be there when we need them, when that happens I sure hope we’ve found enough alternative energy to keep us staggering along. I know this from personal experience since our family just got back from a trip around the Midwest that was fueled largely by alternative energy.  […]

FNBO Direct Savings Challenge

FNBO Direct originally challenged a group of five people to pay themselves first and the president of FNBO Direct is now expanding the challenge to Americans at large. FNBO Direct Pay Yourself First I think it’s great that FNBO Direct is encouraging people to save more money and to pay themselves first.  Here is how they describe it: […]

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