Personal Finance Advice

“Adults are just children who earn money.” – Kenneth Branaugh

I was wandering around the web looking for more information to add to Cost of Smoking when I can across this article about how Fat Smokers Save You Money. While this really doesn’t have anything to do with personal finance per se (unless you want to count that you are giving the government a lot [...]

I will be hosting the carnival of debt reduction this Monday. With so many other carnivals out there, this one has taken a second seat the last few weeks and I’d like to get going again with a good variety of articles. If you have anything with a debt reduction theme, please email me with [...]

I was watching TV tonight and they has a special on a town in the countryside where most of the residents are 65 years plus. The town was dying and there was no income coming in until one of the residents came up with an idea. The idea? Selling leaves. You read that correctly. The [...]

Here is the final net worth ranking for 2005. As always, this net worth ranking doesn’t have any important meaning since all the writers are in completely different financial positions. Furthermore, they aren’t competing against each other in any way, shape or form. Still, it’s a fun ranking for bragging rights among those who keep [...]

While I have had fun doing this the last few months, this will be the last one of these that I put together. While I enjoy doing it, with the increase in the number of people keeping track of their finances on the Internet it’s getting too time consuming to gather all the data when [...]

There is a tradition in Japan of giving money to children at the New Year. The money comes from parents, grandparents and relatives – and is called “otoshidama.” Due to this money, most Japanese children are excited about New Years like children in the US get excited about Christmas. Most of the time the money [...]

One of the things that I strongly believe is that there are literally hundreds of opportunities just waiting to be acted upon. I just have to shake my head when people say things like “there isn’t anything that I can do.” All it takes to spot the opportunities is to keep your eyes open and [...]

It was a tough month and the average for the 15 sat sites that were up for the entire month came to $39.09. That compares to the $54.09 average last month for the 10 sites that had been up an entire month. I knew that the average would fall to some degree due to adding [...]