Money Rules by Jean Chatzky
April 5, 2012
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a rulebook you could check for every money decision you were struggling with? Well Jean Chatzky wants to help you with that. She recently came out with a new book called “Money Rules” that’s different than your average personal finance book. It’s a collection of the money rules […]
Why You Hate Doing Your Taxes
March 30, 2012
As part of my TurboTax giveaway I asked you to comment on what part of doing your taxes was the most confusing or frustrating. I was expecting to hear a lot of similar frustrations but you actually had a wide range of things that bugged you about doing your tax return. It does make sense, […]
How to Setup Your Dream IRA in Under 10 Minutes a Day
March 25, 2012
Why would it take more than one day to setup an IRA? Shouldn’t it just take 20 minutes to open an IRA online? It sounds pretty simple to just start an IRA but when you look at the number of eligible people who don’t have an Individual Retirement Account it makes you wonder – what’s […]
Social Media Savings You Can Take to the Bank
March 22, 2012
If you ever feel like you’re just wasting time on social media sites, here’s some good news, it could end up saving you money. Thanks to programs like American Express Sync and Klout Perks now some of the time you’ve spent online might start to pay off with savings in the real world. I’ve been […]
7 Tips for Cutting Cable Costs
March 14, 2012
Thanks to Andrea Woroch for sharing some tips on cutting cable costs in this guest post. When I was a kid, cable television was a luxury. It was a rare treat only found at hotels and friends’ houses. My parents didn’t want to take on the extra expense and they worried all of the extra […]
5 Expensive Decisions That Can Haunt You for Life
March 9, 2012
Some of your decisions about money are forgotten weeks or even days after you’ve made them. Other decisions will stick with you for far longer and will impact your finances for years to come. Here’s a list of 5 things you should give some serious thought to before taking the plunge. As you read through them […]
TurboTax “Under the Hood” Giveaway
March 3, 2012
TurboTax hides a lot of details “under the hood” about tax forms that many of us don’t care to know about. If you’ve used TurboTax to file your taxes for a number of years you might remember that the desktop version of the software had two different modes you could choose between Step-by-Step or Forms mode (you can’t […]
Angies List Costco Discounts
February 24, 2012
Usually when I write about Angies List it’s to talk about the latest home project we’ve used the service to find contractors for but there’s another benefit of Angies List that doesn’t come up that often. Angies List Discounts I touched on it before when I wrote about the discount movie tickets we found on Angies […]
Sell a Car on Craigslist Without Losing Sleep
February 22, 2012
If you’re wondering whether it’s worth the trouble to sell a car on Craigslist, last month we sold our car on Craigslist for $3000 more than the dealer offered us on a trade-in. I’d never put up a car for sale by owner and didn’t really know much about the detail of how to sell […]
Tax Organization Tips & Giveaway Winner
February 18, 2012
Thanks to everyone who participated in the tax organizer kit giveaway in preparation for upcoming tax season! If you missed it, all you had to do was share a tax tip to enter into the giveaway. Tax Tips As the chart below shows, one tip was by far the most popular. People said it in […]
