When it comes to saving money and protecting your finances, it’s often the preventative steps that you take which have a huge effect on how your finances ultimately turn out. This is especially true when it comes to potential and unexpected disasters.
While most financial experts give good advice on how to prepare a basic emergency [...]

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

I received an email that asked what it takes to get out of debt. I don’t think there is an easy cookie cutter answer to this. Yes, it means spending less than you’re making and making payments toward the debt. That’s the simple answer, but what I’ve found is that for the majority of those [...]

Welcome to the second installment of Funny Money Friday – true money related stories. If you come across more funny money stories, be sure to leave a comment or trackback to share with others.
$68 Million Scammed From IRS By Inmates – What are they going to do? Put them in jail?
$175 A Pound Coffee [...]

“One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.” – Robert Kiyosaki

I did a challenge in 2005 where I tried to turn $20 into $5,000 in 6 months in my spare time. Since this generated quite a bit of interest and a number of others joined in with their own challenges, we’re doing it again this year.
For me, it’s a wonderful way for me not [...]

I was thinking the other day that while people often talk about the best investments out there, rarely do they talk about the worst investments you can make. It’s as if there is an assumption that everyone will magically know a bad investment when it appears. While common sense can go a long way in [...]

If you are into second hand store shopping (if you aren’t because you don’t think anything decent would be there and you haven’t been to one in awhile, you may want to take a trip again. The local one by my house in the US is quite nice – nothing like the image I has [...]

For those who do their own stock trading, there is a new low cost trader in town that might be worth checking out: TradeKing.com:
We don’t have a pricing structure, we have a price.
For stock trades, we charge $4.95 per trade. For option trades, we charge $4.95 per trade, plus 65 cents per contract. That’s it.
At [...]

I got about 40 fixed price listings up and we’ll see how they do over the next week. Three have already sold, so let’s hope that trend continues. I’m not completely done with them, however. I listed an bunch without description’s so I need to go back and fill that information in. For the true [...]