Track expenses diligently for a whole year, and your time at taxes will be much, much less unhappy … We are a week into the new year. It’s alarming how quickly time flies by, isn’t it? The beginning of a new calendar year is a great time to start tracking your personal finances carefully (though … Read more
I do a few things pretty well. Cooking hasn’t been one of them. For a surprisingly long time I’ve been able to get by knowing hardly the first thing about preparing a hot meal: Through high school my parents prepared the meals. Through college I had a meal plan. Through graduate school I only did … Read more
Swagbucks.com is a website that rewards its members with points (called SB) that can be redeemed for gift cards and other goodies. Over the years I’ve earned hundreds of dollars in Amazon gift cards (my favorite!) for searching the internet, answering easy polls, watching a few videos, and telling people about Swagbucks.com. This morning Swagbucks.com … Read more
A friend of ours was paid a pretty high compliment. I heard things about the finances of a successful community event during a committee meeting a few weeks ago. Specifically, after the accounting was done, it ended up squarely in the black financially. The person reporting out in the committee meeting credited much of the … Read more
At FinCon15 I attended a talk delivered by Stefanie O’Connell, who blogs at The Broke and Beautiful Life, among other activities. Her talk at FinCon outlined how to become an expert at something without official expertise, and gave as an example how she built a reputation as a finance expert for the millennial age group. … Read more
Pretty much any discount or reward can be expressed like this: Get << awesome reward >> when you << do X >>. Here, << awesome reward >> can be something like: 7% cash back free shipping 10,000 airline miles 50% off a set of paring knives etc. And << do X >> is something like: sign … Read more
If you have the option of paying for something in full, or paying for it in installments, which method do you choose? A number of factors play into making a wise decision.
There was a good question asked over at the Money StackExchange site dealing with an alternative to conventional health insurance called a health care sharing ministry. The cogent parts of the question are below: … The basic idea of a health share is that it is a non-profit organization where members pledge to pay a … Read more