Personal Finance Advice

With the price of gas continuing to climb, Discover Card has timed their current promotion well. If you have a regular Discover Card, you can take advantage of it at no cost. Discover is running a 5% cashback program on gas and some related auto products for all their current card holders, but you must [...]

We have our newest satellite site up which is focused on the basics of investing at Investing Page. In addition to being a new sat site, it’s also our first sat site where we are starting out from day one with a manager for the site. Roger Sorensen, who has been writing on personal finance [...]

While balancing your check book is not a difficult thing to do, the statistics say that you probably don’t do it. According to Moebs Services, an economic research firm, 87% of consumers don’t balance their checking accounts. If you don’t know how much money is in your account, you’re much more likely to bounce a [...]

I mentioned a few tips back to use less (Use Half The Amount) to save money, so the question you’re probably asking yourself is how in the world do you save money by using more? The answer is by using more of what you already have instead of throwing in out. According to statistics from [...]

I read an interesting article about new legislation being proposed in California where your tax refund could be split and sent to two different accounts instead of just one. The reasoning is that by doing this, people will be more likely to send part of their tax refund to a retirement savings account instead of [...]

Advertisers have done a wonderful job through media markets to convince that their product is superior to the water that comes out of your faucets. It wasn’t that long ago that bottled water was almost non existent and everyone drank what came out of the tap. Today it seems that most people feel they are [...]

Get your fill of tax cartoons: Tax Cartoons 2006

If you are a current personal finance blogger, I have some news that may be quite interesting to you. I am leaving my paid personal finance blogging position at the end of this month and they are looking for someone to replace me. I’m leaving because of time – with all the other projects I [...]

Borrowing instead of buying is always a good choice, but for many it has been a problem finding people who would willingly let you borrow from them. What if there was an organization in your area where all the people listed the things that they had to lend out and you could borrow from them [...]

For those who have extra time and are looking for more reading, there are plenty of articles to take a look at in carnivals and festivals. Here are the most recent ones: Education: The Education Wonks Frugality: Punny Money (note: this is one of the best festivals I’ve come across in the way it has [...]

While most people don’t like to pay taxes, what’s even worse is when you know someone who should be paying taxes, but they are cheating on them to not pay their fair share. According to the IRS, taxpayers underpay their taxes by some $300 billion. If you have enough information on how they are cheating [...]

It has almost become a mantra for those trying to save money on energy when purchasing new appliances: Make sure that when you purchase an appliance, it has an Energy Star rating to save money. It seems that the Energy Star rating may not mean as much as many of us have been lead to [...]

You’ve probably heard that high school seniors aren’t doing too well in their knowledge of personal finance with high school seniors scoring just over 50% of the answers correctly (52.4%) on the latest Jump$tart Financial Literacy test. To be fair, however, you should give yourself the test and see how you do, too. So grab [...]

If you haven’t done your Spring cleaning yet, it makes financial sense to set a day or two to do so. Not only will it help get your house in order, it will also save / make you some money. Clutter can be a huge expense during the year. Not knowing where things are when [...]

Sometimes the best deals you can get on fresh produce is not on sale in your local supermarket. Finding other outlets where food is sold can save you money and introduce you to different varieties of fruits and vegetables that you won’t find in the grocery store produce section. Farmers’ markets are an excellent source [...]

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I feel strongly that it’s the parents’ responsibility to teach their kids about money and finances because the fact is, they aren’t going to learn it anyplace else. If you have young kids that need practice counting money, there are a number of excellent free online resources available that are both educational and fun to [...]

Okay, I admit it. I have a curiosity of people’s coin jars. I love it when I visit a house for the first time and they have their coin jar in full view. I find it interesting the way that people collect their coins. Even though almost everyone in the world does it, no two [...]

A few months back I wrote why I don’t keep my money in Japanese banks – which is because they pay horribly low rates. The other side of the coin is that you can borrow money in Japan at rates that most people in the US would have a heart attack if they saw. I [...]

Batteries can cost a small fortune if you use them a lot whether they be for emergency items or electronic devices. The first step you need to take is to determine which type of batteries you need to save the most money which will depend on what you are using them for. Here are two [...]