Are you one of the many who have retired early? Do you regret not waiting until later so you could get a larger check every month? Well, you may be in luck. There is a little-known process you can go through to get a larger Social Security benefit check every month. It’s just as if [...]
If you value saving money more than keeping friends, I have the perfect article for you. Follow these 10 simple steps and you will not only save money, but also drive away those pesky friends. Depending on how close the friends are, you may have to complete all 10 items on the checklist and possibly [...]
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 [...]
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. Every time [...]
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 [...]
What Do You Call a Bus Full of Lawyers Going Over a Cliff? A Good Start… America has an interesting love affair with lawyers. On the one hand, television shows about lawyers capture our interest year after year. On the other hand, in daily life I cannot think of any profession that is criticized or [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve written before about dressing and looking your best to succeed in the workplace and life, and I still believe this one hundred percent. However, I overheard an interesting discussion that illustrated the desire for casual dress and how people seem happier when they don’t have to “dress up.” First, I’ll give you a little [...]
