This is a guest post by Philip Taylor, owner of PT Money: Personal Finance. Check out his blog to discover more ways to save money, make extra money, and spend money wisely. See his latest review of the best small business credit cards. I remember the days of being single. My wife (then girlfriend) and [...]
Category Archives: Life Lessons
10 Tips to Help You Pay Off Your Student Loans
Student loans can be a huge financial burden. If you are looking for new ways to get out from under your education debt, try employing one or more of the following tips. 1. Know Who You Owe If you have multiple student loans, it may be easy to get confused about who you owe, loan [...]
Steps To Halve Your Mortgage Repayments
If you want to be financially free the first thing to do is get ahead of your mortgage. Sending extra cash to your mortgage each month will help you pay it off faster and save you lots of money over the life of the loan. To find that extra cash in the budget you can [...]
Five tips for saving on your auto insurance
There are hundreds of insurance companies out there and they all charge dramatically different auto insurance rates for the same level of protection. In fact, auto insurance quotes can vary by more than $1,000! What’s hard to find is someone willing to tell you why. Don’t worry; I’ll give you the facts and information you [...]
Keep your car insurance rate, and your money, where it belongs
“I recently shopped around for car insurance and got a great new rate. I saved more than $500 by switching. Now I want to keep it. What should I do?” That’s a question we hear a lot. If you want to make sure you don’t see a rate increase when you renew your coverage, you’re [...]
Learn Life From Your Losses
Today’s guest article is written by Forex day trader, Thomas Grow. Thomas is a staff writer for ForexTraders.com and certainly has some interesting things to share. Life has been pretty rough for many of us, these last few years. Personally, in a very short amount of time, I’ve managed to lose my job, my house, my [...]
Easy and effective ways to determine how much home you can afford
One of the principal questions that most of the prospective homebuyers have is ‘how much house can I afford?’ in reality. It is a fact that housing prices are low in 2010. But, it is also true that thousands of homeowners are losing their cherished homes to foreclosure. That is why it is necessary to [...]
12 Steps to Prepare Your Home for Sale
First impressions are very important to the prospective home buyer, so it’s important to put yourself in their shoes and look at your home as someone else would see it. Preparing a home for sale properly can make all the difference as to how fast your house sells. First observations All too often we are so [...]
The $32,000,000 Travelers Check
This past weekend I went shopping for a bunch of things, one of which was a pair of shoes. The sales person rang up my credit card but apparently hit the wrong button. The register read my card number as the amount of a travelers check. The register read that the store owed me change [...]
Do the Clothes make the Man, or the Man makes the Clothes?
One thing I didn’t expect at this new job was the dress code. Even though it’s business casual, it is more “wear whatever you’d like besides sweats.” I think it gets explained away because the people there are “marketing people”. Now, I am totally cool with this. I like wearing jeans most days. However, those [...]
Feeling Guilty about Overtime
The new job is going well I feel. It’s been less than three weeks and already I am immersed in the marketing field (something I swore I had little interest in when I was at Butler University — Go Dawgs!). No offense to my previous jobs, but I feel like I am doing challenging and [...]
Why You Should Save for Your Kids’ College Education
Today MD from Studenomics and I are debating a hot button personal finance topic: Should you pay for your kids’ college education. He takes the stand that you shouldn’t while I am stepping up to the plate for those that believe you should. Be sure to check out his article HERE and let us know [...]
3 Plutus Award Nominations, 2 Jobs Quit, 1 New Career
What a week this has been. Since the blogger happy hour last Thursday, my life has gone in all sorts of weird directions. Lots to tell and it all ties into personal finance. Things get better as you scroll down, so I hope you pick up on my excitement. Plutus Awards First, and most importantly, [...]
What the Movies Show Us about Pay Day Loans
By now most of you know us bloggers opinions on pay day loans and check cashing places. But to be honest, I have never walked into an Ace Check Cashing location. The closest I have been to a pay day loan place is in some of the movies I have seen recently. Its funny though, [...]
Six Reasons to Work for a Non-Profit Organization
This is a guest article by Flexo from Consumerism Commentary. Flexo is currently on a ten-day, ten-venue tour. “It ain’t the money.” I started my career out of college working for a non-profit organization involved with the arts. Yes, after graduation, I took myself and my thousands of dollars of student loan debt and walked [...]
