Money

By Life is Not Hard • November 19th, 2008

Each Sunday, I sit down and read the Sunday paper and like most people I usually discard the coupon inserts. Just recently I began to think how silly it was for me to have a site recommending different ways to organize your personal finances, while I was throwing money away each week. I [...]

It’s coming up on the Holiday Season and once again one of the hottest toys this year is Elmo. If you haven’t seen Elmo Live yet, check out the video below. It’s like having your own little Muppet!

As it gets closer to Christmas Elmo gets harder and harder to find at stores. [...]

I’m sure you have all seen the ads promoting the ability to work from home and make tons of money using the internet. A couple years ago, it was fairly simple to throw up a website, put some ads on there, do a little promotion and blam!, money began rolling in. Those days [...]

Since a lot of students read my site, I thought I’d write about jobs for high school and college students. The first part time job I took was when I was fifteen years old. My Mom told me that if I wanted to drive when I was sixteen I needed to get a [...]

Many sites have outlined the advantages and disadvantages for Internet banking. I have two accounts that I use. One is my checking account with WAMU and the other is my savings account with ING. I love the granularity I get with my WAMU automatic payments, which includes options all the way down [...]

High end Halloween costumes for kids don’t have to be super expensive. Here are a list of costumes for kids that can be purchased without breaking the bank during these tough financial times. Happy Halloween everyone!

When I first set out to expand my financial knowledge many recommended that I look into Warren Buffet. Since that time I have read many books and articles on the man and how he sees the stock market. For those of you that are unaware of who Warren Buffett is, I suggest you do a quick Google search for him. He is really a fascinating person. This past week a new book came out The Snowball. I have been looking

As many of you know, my goal on this site is to pass along information that I have learned over the years that I feel should have been taught to me in school but wasn’t. Most of my debt was built from my second year of college to about 5 years post graduation. [...]

I recently took my car in for the scheduled maintenance, which I do every time the scheduled maintenance light comes on. I own a 2006 Honda Accord and like taking it to the dealer for the regular checks, at least until the warranty is up. On my last trip there was some recommended [...]

I know many of you have been requesting that I write a post on my experience with the personal budget software, YNAB. I have mentioned it in several posts but have yet to give my review. Spoiler alert - I love it!