This Kiplinger feature on MSN has a number of good ways that we waste money. Slide 12 of this series (these aren’t my favorite ways of presenting things, but I see how it generates more ad impressions for MSN!) has the following suggestion: If you’re stashing your cash in a traditional savings account earning next … Read more
Old age gives itself plenty of warning. First there are the milestones of life: college, marriage, first child, next children, first child goes to college. Then there are the signs of decay: hair loss, failing eyesight, memory lapses, aches and pains. These happen well before falling and not being able to get up. And we … 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
This guest post is brought to you courtesy of Leon Harris. He writes for Financialized, an investing and finance blog that offers an unbiased perspective on personal finance topics. Everyone knows that a 401K is set up almost exclusively as a retirement plan, and as such, it comes with some pretty hefty penalties for early … 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
David Ning over at Money Ning disagrees with the conclusion of this how-rich-is-rich article from CNN Money (via Yahoo! Finance). The conclusion is that it might be necessary to have $12 million banked to retire. Now, to be fair, the $12 million figure comes from assumptions are out of reach for most people: In retirement … 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
Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, J. Money does, for one. Not only does he have his own millionaire club with a swanky gold leafy discus logo … but he’s crunched the numbers and he thinks that it can happen on just five bucks a day. Granted, that’s $5 a day for 40 years, … Read more