The end-of-year holidays are festive for most people: attending parties, decorating, giving gifts, listening to music, visiting family, eating a bit too much. At work it sometimes means announcement of raises or year-end bonuses when there’s profit to be shared. People may be entering the new year with a fatter wallet and a bigger paycheck. … Read more
The answer to the problem of how to expose children to money doesn’t have one right answer. (There are wrong answers, though, such as “Give the child as much money as she wants.”) One of the points of debate is whether to tie the allowance to chores or not. Tying the allowance to routine chores … Read more
Michael Masterson, author of Automatic Wealth, Seven Years to Seven Figures, and most recently The Pledge, is very rich. (Selling books is only part of why he’s very rich.) In his latest book he writes about reading effectively for maximum return on investment. In each piece of reading, it pays to hunt for one good … Read more
A couple of weekends ago, a guy was walking around the subdivision looking for customers. He was painting house numbers on the curbs in front of people’s houses. He was a bit older than I was. Under typical circumstances, painting house numbers on a curb isn’t an unusual job for a teenager. But it isn’t … Read more
J Money is one of the liveliest personal finance writers I know, and an awfully hard worker. In between this and his other blogs, he’s got LoveDrop.org going on, a new idea in paying it forward to individuals who’ve come upon hard times. Ahh … to have a third of his energy and a tenth … Read more
Our county had our annual Fall Festival today. After trying in futility to corral all kinds of parade traffic, and after doing some hearing tests for the Lions Club, I went around to the vendors inside. I ran across someone I had done some website work for before. It speaks to my lack of self-confidence … Read more
If keeping your day job is the cake, then investing in yourself outside of your day job is at least the icing, or maybe even another four or five cakes’ worth. But if that sounds like way too much work, there’s always the chance you can hit the jackpot by suing the entity that consumed … Read more
My Google fast-flip brought up this article on the U.S. News site: 21 Ways to Make Extra Money In Retirement. It was aimed at present retirees. The advice ranged from one-time money raisers (sell your stuff) to on-going money savers (ask for discounts, use a rewards credit card) to on-going money makers (consult, temp, garden, … Read more