Personal Finance Advice

It’s pretty hard to lose me as a customer. I am usually quite forgiving and realize that everyone has their bad days and things can go wrong that are not the fault of the person I’m dealing with. I almost always give a company a chance to rectify the issue at hand and in most [...]

Continuing with our small amounts are important series, we have a new giveaway. We changed things up a bit and will be giving one $25 prize, as well as five $5 prizes. One of the ways to enter is to leave a comment on how you save small amounts of money, and I would love [...]

I have always been one who believes that it’s important to get all the big personal finance issues in order before you start looking at the small stuff. If you are losing several hundred dollars a month paying too high of an interest rate on your house payment and decide to spend your time trying [...]

The Rafflecopter Cash Giveaway Project is a free, ongoing, bi-monthly giveaway that is open to all personal finance and money bloggers. Each giveaway has a different personal finance theme. The goal of the giveaway is to encourage blog readers to find ways to improve their finances to help them reach their financial goal as quickly [...]

As an advertiser, there’s a great opportunity to build your social media platforms, build your email lists or get sign ups for your site as part of the SavingAdvice Giveaway Project. This is a project where a number of personal finance bloggers work together to increase the social media platforms of all. By participating in [...]

This is a list of former giveaways and the participants in them Finished Giveaways January 17 – January 31 (Theme: “No Spending Challenge” Prize: One $100 cash prize) a Rafflecopter giveaway Frugal Portland Rather Be Shopping Gen Y Finance Journey Debt Roundup Money Bulldog Reach Financial Independence Eyes On The Dollar Making Sense of Cents [...]

Most people who are trying to get their personal finances in order are well aware of the debt snowball. This is basically a way to pay down your debt in a quick and efficient way. What less people are aware of is the debt snowflake. The debt snowflake is basically finding small income opportunities and [...]

Anyone who writes a blog quickly realizes that there is a lot more to do than simply write articles. We have started to build a number of blogger tools to help solve blogging issues I have had in the past, and we would like to share these tools with other personal finance bloggers (and bloggers [...]

If you are someone who enjoys gardening or has extensive landscaping in their yard, a great outdoor gadget to consider purchasing is a rain barrel. Rain barrels are containers which capture rainwater (usually from your gutter system coming down from your roof) which can be stored for use around your home and yard. There are [...]

There are many ways to save money when using both your washing machine and dryer which everybody should be attempting to do when possible. One of my favorite simple tricks to save money that doesn’t cost a cent and takes less than a minute to do is to place a dry towel into the dryer [...]

I know that some of you were probably hoping that the title of this article indicated there was an equivalent of a AA group for money bloggers (it might be something worth starting because I’m sure there would be big money in it!) Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your perspective), this article is about the [...]

We all know that we should do it, but most of us don’t because it’s either too much of a hassle or we simply forget. Every time we leave our computer and it remains running, we are wasting energy. While each individual time we do this may not seem like like a lot of wasted [...]

With the 4th of July just around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about the fireworks that you’re going to be buying to celebrate. Depending on how extravagant you want to go, the cost of a home display can get quite expensive. With a little bit of planning and organization, however, you can create [...]

Do you work for a boss that you don’t like? It may be having a much larger impact on you than you ever imagined. Recent research has found that a bad boss not only effects you at work, but also how everyone in your family relates to one another, your physical well-being and even an [...]

With gas prices once again on the rise, more and more people will be looking for ways to save money on gas. In their pursuit to achieve this goal, they very well may end up hurting their pocket book. Many people assume that they are saving money on gas when they really aren’t. Here are [...]

Here are a few articles that I came across this past week that peaked my interest that may provide some good weekend reading: An interesting take to help locally owned businesses in difficult economic times. Cash Mobs are organizes customer groups that gather together to spend money at a specific struggling locally owned business in [...]

I have to admit that I enjoy figuring out new ways to use things. I’ve never thought much of the lowly dryer sheet (sometimes referred to as a fabric softener sheet), but have come to learn that it can do a lot of wonderful things — even after it’s been used. You may be surprised [...]

There’s a lot of talk about how parents can prepare their kids for financial independence, but it’s just as important to point out ways that parents can unknowingly hurt their children’s financial success. If you haven’t started teaching your kids about how to be financially responsible, now is the time to begin. It’s never too [...]

Here is some reading that I came across this past week that I found interesting. How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did: Kind of a scary article, but one that should wake you up to how much information stores can garner from your shopping habits. Stores are data mining [...]

For anyone struggling to make their mortgage payment or whose house is currently upside down, the offer of someone paying your mortgage payments would seem like a dream come true. That is what an advertising company, Brainiacs From Mars, says it plans to do. They recently signed a deal with one homeowner to cover their [...]