After reading personal finance blogs for several years now, there is little that I haven’t seen. One of the recurring themes on some blogs is quite disturbing – grown adults who accept / demand an “allowance” from their parents. I’ll cut to the chase – if you’re over the age of 18 and living on [...]
My son had his cell phone stolen about a month and a half ago. For some reason I never called Sprint about it – nothing showed up on the online statement for about 2 weeks, so I figured it was just lost. Today I happened to check my statement though, and it was ugly. Normally [...]
On the last day of December 2007, I wrote up a list of personal finance goals for 2008. Since we’re officially halfway through the year, it’s time to see what kind of progress I’m making on those goals. Pay off all my credit cards before the end of 2008. Well, halfway. I paid off my [...]
Not to the site, but to me! I turned the ripe young age of 26 today. Instead of taking the day off to relax and rest, I’m working as usual. After work I’ll head out to a nice little Mexican restaurant with my wife and son to celebrate. Nothing too fancy, just a nice time [...]
While in some cases that may literally be true, I mean it metaphorically. A married person – man or woman, has no money. That is, if they want to have a successful, happy marriage. All newlyweds take heed – when you marry, it is no longer “Mine” or “hers” or “his”. Everything, every single dime [...]
Every once in awhile, a word or phrase comes along that everyone loves. They love it so much that they use it in everyday life, and in normal conversations. They use it so much, in fact, that they absolutely kill it. “Snowflake” is one of those such terms. Everyone, it seems, is playing with snowflakes. [...]
When it comes to financial matters, we like to put things off. I do it. You do it. Most people do – no reason to deny it. It’s just so much easier to say that we’ll do it tomorrow. The problem, of course, is that tomorrow never comes. The late General George Patton said it [...]
Every day, it seems, a friend or coworker mentions to me that they’re going to be blowing a large sum of money on something frivolous. Wether it’s a new truck or SUV, big-screen TV, $2000 dog, or some other expense, I shudder internally. When it comes to the truck or SUV, I do take some [...]
After reading a post by Mrs Micah, I realized that I too have a sleep debt. I work about 55 hours per week at my day job, and roughly 16 on my small business. That’s a total of 71 hours of work per week – which is quite a lot. It is down from my [...]
If you’re like the average person, you work hard to earn a paycheck, and probably spend more of it than you should. You do try to put some away with the goal of someday becoming wealthy. What does wealth mean, exactly? There are a few different interpretations of wealth. Many think that being wealthy just [...]
