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Tips on How to Deal with Debt
The following is a guest post from Allana Ritchie. Allana is a content writer for Debt.org, where she writes about personal finance and little smart ways to spend (and save) money. Allanna has an...
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Health Insurance – Do You Know What You’re Looking At?
Every year during my friends and family’s company open enrollment periods, I will get a couple of questions about the offerings that they have to choose from. This is because I am in the health...
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Applying Thriftgenuity to My Weekend
This is the first weekend that I am not traveling or have soccer refereeing. Because my weekends to this point have left little time for anything else, I’ve got a list of things to get accomplished...
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The Liebster Award
Jennifer at Money Aches was kind enough to nominate me for the Liebster Award. This is very cool and unexpected, my favorite combination. The rules of the award are as follows: This award is given to...
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A Craigslist Gig That Proves You Can Make Money Doing Almost Anything
Backstage during a production of Oliver in college. I am on the left. Last week, I started looking on Craigslist in the “gigs” section for some odd jobs to fill up my time now that soccer refereeing is...
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The Housing Market: Have We Really Recovered?
The following is a guest post from John Gower. He is a writer for NerdWallet, a personal finance website dedicated to helping you save money with the best savings rates. It was not that long ago that...
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Reflection Friday: June 14, 2013
Welcome to the first installment of what will become my standard Friday posts. I believe in learning from all experiences and taking the lessons forward into new ventures. Therefore, I reserve the...
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Budgeting In a Pet – A Cat vs. Dog
I will admit, I am not really a pet person. I love dogs, but every time I consider getting one, the cost and responsibility outweighs the positives. To this point, I have moved around regularly for...
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You Get What You Pay For, Except When You Don’t
Our first farmers co-op delivery There are so many facets of life where the phrase “You get what you pay for” gets mentioned. I think that everyone agrees that it applies in at least a few cases. For...
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Reflection Friday: June 28, 2013
I noticed a theme this week in both the blog posts I read as well as the comments to my posts this week. Matt at Mom and Dad Money wrote an article called Bad for the Budget, Good for the Soul. In...
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Can You Afford to Have a Baby?
Matt from Mom and Dad Money and I decided it would be fun to trade blogs for the day. I have a guest post about health insurance on his page and below is a great post from him below about things to...
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Avoid Issues When Using Your Health Insurance Benefits
A few weeks back, I wrote about the basic terminology of health insurance. Yesterday, I guest posted about questions to ask when choosing a policy that is best for you and your family. Today, I...
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Debt Management: Control on Your Finances
The following is a guest post from Amy Lawson of Tax Credit Guide in the UK. She writes about managing and avoiding debt. Borrowing money is easy and usually one has an outright plan on how to pay...
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No Sympathy Regarding Student Loans
By now, most people know that congress has not extended the 3.4% interest rate on federal student loans. Nearly every news story describes it as the rates doubling. They seem to gloss over that the...
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Accepting Money from Parents – A Basic Guide
I recently heard a story from a friend about planning for her son’s wedding. I won’t go into details, but basically, there is tension surrounding the funding of the wedding. The general rule of...
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Make Your Smart Phone Pay for Itself
Like many thrifty people, I struggled with purchasing a smart phone. What do I need it for other than games and widgets that will only distract me and not be necessary? My wife got one before I did....
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Use Your Sense of Competition to be Frugal
I noticed recently a number of articles about the struggles of saving money and keeping debt at bay. Essentially, it is the constant struggle between knowing what is right and a need to fulfill...
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Embrace Having Cheap Tastes
Monday, I wrote about making a game of saving money and competing with the sales people trying to take your money. There were some great comments about how other folks do similar things. What is the...
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Free Bread On Craigslist, What Would You Do?
Today’s post is short and sweet. I want to know what others would do if faced with the situation I came across this week. One of my favorite online activities is to peruse the free section on...
View ArticleFriday Reflection – July 19, 2013
It was a crazy week for me in the work world. I mentioned a few weeks back that the health insurance industry is active right now with a lot of job opportunities presenting themselves. I received...
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