Personal Finance Advice

As part of an ongoing project, I have been collecting people’s money confessions. Some of the more interesting ones I share here. This is confession number 64 in the series: “I wish I had the guts to pay my taxes in pennies.” Other confession already listed: The First 25 Confessions Confessions #26 – #50 Wedding [...]

As the US becomes more and more a cashless society, is it really necessary to have cash at all? In many instances, there may be no reason, but one time that cash is king is when there is an emergency where normal outlets that dispense cash are not available and credit systems may be offline [...]

We all have money secrets that we keep to ourselves. I’ve asked people to anonymously give their money confessions to me after the speeches I give for the past few months. This is confession number 63 in the series: “I have to choose between food and prescription medicine my doctors say I need to take [...]

Almost everyone has some type of money secret that they keep. I have been collecting these secrets for the last few months asking people to anonymously give theirs to me after the speeches I give. This is confession number 62 in the series: “I hate borrowing money from my parents because it always comes with [...]

The older the artist, the smaller the crayons become. Many kids don’t have a problem with broken crayons. Many kids ignore them. Many kids get gifted several boxes of crayons in a year, or build up a collection over time. Throwing crayon pieces away is one of the most dissatisfying clean-up jobs to parents and [...]

I collect money confessions from people who give them anonymously to me after the talks I give and share some of the more interesting ones here. This is confession number 61 in the series: “When I didn’t have money, I always said that I would be generous to a fault if I ever did have [...]

Great ideas can come at any time. More often than not, we are usually preoccupied when the lightning strikes, and we tell ourselves we will write it down later only to forget what it was that was so amazing. No matter what your profession, a lost idea is lost money. A simple way to make [...]

People keep money secrets and I have been collecting some of these secrets from people who attend my presentations. This is confession number 60 in the series: “I have spent over $25,000 on cigarettes in my lifetime and I don’t even like them.” Other confession already listed: The First 25 Confessions Confessions #26 – #50 [...]

There are money secrets that we all carry around with us. I have been collecting money confessions from people who come and see me talk over the last few months. This is confession number 59 in the series: “I have wasted far too much money putting extras on my car.” Other confession already listed: The [...]

I know you didn’t ask for my two cents, but I will tell you anyway that I find figures of speech fascinating. The things we say without thinking say a lot about what we think, and a lot of the most common idioms are about money. For instance, why do we stretch a dollar but [...]

In her book, If You Want to Write, Barbara Ueland states, “Families are great murderers of the creative impulse…” This statement is bold, but unfortunately true for many. Many have had family members shoot down great ideas as too good to be true, too difficult or maybe even stupid. Do you want to start a [...]

Most of us have a hidden money secret or two that we keep to ourselves. For the past few months, I have been asking people to anonymously tell me their money confessions. This is confession number 58 in the series: “I sometimes place quarters into parking meters that are about to run out as I [...]

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When it comes to money, we all have some hidden secrets that we keep to ourselves. I have been asking people to anonymously give me their money confessions and I have been sharing some of the more interesting ones here. This is confession number 57 in the series: “I still chase after rainbows when I [...]

As part of an ongoing project, I ask members of the talks I give to anonymously write down a money confession at the end. I share some of them here. This is confession number 56 in the series: “I spent over $10,000 on baby clothes to impress my friends.” Other confession already listed: The First [...]

We all hold one money secret or another. This is part of a series of some of the anonymous money confessions that I have been collecting over the last few months. This is confession number 55 in the series: “I was the anonymous tipster that turned in my boss for cheating on the company’s taxes. [...]

As part of an ongoing series, I have been collecting the money confessions of audience members that attend my talks and share some of the interesting ones here. This is confession number 54 in the series: “I used to steal money from my mother’s purse to go out with friends even though I knew we [...]

I have been gathering the money confessions from people that attend my talks for the last few months. The more interesting of these confessions I have decided to share on this blog. This is confession number 53 in the series: “People invest money with me because they think that I’m wealthy. I live paycheck to [...]

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This is part of an ongoing series of money confessions that I have been collecting. I have asked participants in the talks I have been giving to anonymously write down a money confession. The confessions that I find interesting I have been sharing here. This is confession number 52 in the series: “When the plumber [...]