Personal Finance Advice

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Big Three auto CEOs flew private jets to ask for taxpayer money
This is when you know the Economy is Doomed!
Savers caused the financial crisis
Worst Year Ever for Stocks: ‘Irrational Exuberance’ [...]

We must understand the word, wealth. The dictionary defines the word, wealth, as the state of having plenty of money or possessions. Ok, what does plenty mean? An adequate or more than adequate amount. Would you say that you are wealthy? Probably not. Would you say that you have an adequate amount to get by [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

The Economy: Hundreds Line Up For Jobs At New In-N-Out
GM failure: The shockwave
Homeowner denial: My home is gaining value
Whitehead sees slump worse than Depression
Banks raising fees–again!
American buying binge [...]

AC/DC released their first album in 8 years on October 20th, 2008 and within a week, Black Ice hit number one on the Billboard Hard Rock chart. They have sold over 200 million albums worldwide. They were ranked number 4 in the “100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock” list from VH1 and 7th on MTV’s [...]

Last week, I outlined our plan to make November a spending crash diet. We have only $400 to pay for gas, groceries, entertainment, etc. — everything that isn’t a monthly recurring bill — for the entire month.
By day four, hubby began pouting.
“This sucks. Everything costs money. It’s so depressing,” he said, as he unloaded [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

People having trouble paying their utility bills
In this economy, even sex doesn’t sell
Food storage makes a come back
Do you save too much?
Do you believe in ILLUMINATI?
How I beat [...]

This past weekend the battery in my cordless phone died. I thought, “No problem. I’ll just run out and get a new battery.” When I got to the store I was disgusted to find that a new battery cost $18.99. My disgust grew when I turned around and looked at the phone display. I could [...]

I see many people worrying themselves sick over this economic crisis. Their worry is jeopardizing their health and happiness. They can’t sleep or eat (or they eat and sleep too much). They’ve stopped exercising. They aren’t taking care of themselves and their relationships. If their worry were a positive force for change, that would be [...]

At the beginning of this year, I was looking for a way to supplement our income. I do seasonal data processing and the spring season had not yet begun. I had prior experience with selling handmade jewelry on the internet and had all ready decided that I wanted to use the internet for my venue. [...]

I have a friend who is, shall we say, “crunchy” (in the best sense of the word). She and her family eschew many modern conveniences such as dishwashers, fast food, and big box stores in favor of doing things the old fashioned way. They are environmentally conscious to a fault and very outdoorsy. A few [...]

I love saving money. Ask my wife, she’d be the first to tell you. She thinks I’m a tightwad and that I wrote the book on skinning a flint. I like to think she is maybe a bit facetious. Maybe.
But then again, I am mature enough to see the grain of truth in such [...]

My husband loves the movie, Forrest Gump. He can almost follow the script word for word. This is a football, beer and pizza loving man, we are talking about here. When I asked him why he liked the movie so much, he couldn’t explain it. So the last time it was on TV, I really [...]

At any given time in your life you may find yourself in a financial situation not of your making. The recent credit crisis in America is a prime example. It is a uniquely perfect storm to be sure, the kind of economic crisis that comes along once every 50 -100 years perhaps, but that doesn’t [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Why Asian Foods Save You Money
Where the pros are putting their cash
U.S. may take stakes in banks
Iceland’s Banking System has been Nationalised
Will a freezer save you money?
Top 10 [...]

Not long ago I wrote about low hanging financial fruit. These are the easy things you can do to save money that don’t require a lot of time, effort, specialized knowledge, or lifestyle alterations. Now I’d like to move on to the high hanging financial fruit.
Once you’ve gotten into the habit of saving money and [...]

We are looking for someone in debt that is willing to blog about it. We recently purchased the Blogging Away Debt Blog and are looking for someone to take over the blogging from Tricia once she has paid off all her debt. Tricia will still be around blogging for awhile, so you would be blogging [...]

If you own a home, you probably already know that maintaining it costs a lot more than you expected it would when you bought it. Even if you are not living in the first home that you bought, every house I have known has cost me more time and money than I anticipated. [...]

I have demanding hair. It’s thick and curly and tends toward frizziness if I don’t beat it into submission. Like many women, I’ve fought a lifelong love/hate battle with my hair. At times I’ve wanted it straighter, shorter, longer, thinner, thicker or (rarely) curlier. As I’ve aged, however, I’ve mellowed toward my hair and realized [...]

As the economic decline slides further into uncertainty, we have to take a hard look at our own familial finances and begin to ask some serious questions. It’s time to take off those rose-colored glasses.
First, we all need to understand what we, as individuals, can and cannot control.
We can control how much we earn

If you [...]

Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:

Buffett: “We had an economic Pearl Harbor hit”
September Madness
Opinion From A Well Run Bank (pdf)
Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership
The Case for Doing Nothing
Main Street’s Rage at [...]