House Swapping: Fad or Possibility
Posted on September 21, 2007 - Filed Under Real Estate, Saving, Spending | 3 Comments
House swapping is the increasingly popular activity involving two homeowners staying at each other’s houses for a set period, typically allowing both to vacation gaining a more authentic experience for a low cost. Homeowner A would live in Home B for a time period, while Homeowner B lives in Home A.
I have seen this growing in popularity […]
11 Money Tips For College Students
Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under Saving, Income, Spending | 5 Comments
It’s September again and time for the fall semester to start back up, and yet again it makes me realize I have only been out of college for three years now. It seems like so much longer. Working for two small growth companies so much changes and evolves in a year, both for the company […]
Read More..>>Cheap Flights: AirFareWatchDog.com
Posted on September 4, 2007 - Filed Under Saving, Spending | 1 Comment
One of the major downsides of Expedia, Orbitz, and Travelocity is they only search the major codeshare airlines while excluding the smaller, cheaper, and regional options. I came across a new site, AirFareWatchDog.com that provides search options for locating fares on almost all airlines including JetBlue, Southwest, Spirit, and Allegiant plus many other smaller regional airlines. I […]
Read More..>>Financial Mistakes I Have Committed
Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under Debt, Financial Planning, Spending | 2 Comments
Everybody has made financial mistakes. Personal finance is a complex and broad subject matter with countless variables and decisions. I found it interesting reading interviews with some of the top personal finance authors and hearing their financial mistakes. Liz Pulliam Weston talks about carrying a credit card balance as well as holding onto underperforming, high expense mutual funds. Suze Orman states […]
Read More..>>Upgrading Your Home: Want vs. Need
Posted on August 22, 2007 - Filed Under Real Estate, Loans, Home Savings, Relationships and Money, Financial Planning, Spending | 5 Comments
How do you know when it is time to upgrade your house? The average length of time spent in a home seems to have decreased over the years. I know very few people my age that do not move a few times before settling down, along the way buying and selling a couple of homes. […]
Read More..>>HOWTO: Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) Deconstructed
Posted on August 20, 2007 - Filed Under Insurance, Unexpected Expenses, Saving, Spending | 6 Comments
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) have been something I never fully understood. They seemed complex, cumbersome, and although a good idea, were executed poorly. Over the years FSAs have become simpler and more convenient, allowing the user to have real savings without all the hassle. There are two types of FSAs: health care and dependent care. Health […]
Read More..>>The Golden Rule of Personal Finance
Posted on August 18, 2007 - Filed Under Debt, Financial Planning, Saving, Spending | Leave a Comment
Personal finance can be overwhelming and confusing. With all the pitfalls and intricacies along the way it takes time, experience, and education to understand it all. But to simplify the point of everything this personal finance blog has written and condense it into one sentence it would be as follows: The simplest way to live […]
Read More..>>Book Review: Affluenza - The All-Consuming Epidemic
Posted on August 14, 2007 - Filed Under Book Review, Net Worth, Relationships and Money, Saving, Spending | Leave a Comment
After seeing some other personal finance bloggers churn out book reviews like machines, I figured it was my turn to give a critique of a few of books. I will be posting more book reviews in the future, but today I just got finished with Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic.
Affluenza is defined as “a painful, contagious, […]
How Much Is Enough In Silicon Valley?
Posted on August 6, 2007 - Filed Under Relationships and Money, Net Worth, Financial Planning, Saving, Income, Spending | Leave a Comment
For many Silicon Valley millionaires the sky is the limit. Their neighbors drive six figure cars and live in seven figure houses. Keeping up with the Jones’ in Silicon Valley has become out of control. In this weekend’s NY Times article entitled “In Silicon Valley, Millionaires Who Don’t Feel Rich”, the working class of the small […]
Read More..>>Personal Finance Links Of The Week
Posted on July 26, 2007 - Filed Under Spending | Leave a Comment
Here are some of my favorite links that I stumbled on from the past week:
LifeHacker presents a new Firefox Extension for Wesabe.
Three dollars or Less Meals from Cheap Eats.
20 Firefox Extensions That Will Save You Money
How To Organize All Of Your Financial Documents In A Filing Cabinet
