A Blog about Saving and Managing Money
Family-oriented holidays always cost money. You are expected to show your love by spending money on those you love. And while a sincere expression of sentiment is well-deserved, we want to curtail the financial excess of the businesses that gouge consumers over these special occasions. After all, some holidays were
A strategic investment, in my opinion, is an asset allocation that is made with a specific goal in mind. For example, suppose you have $5000 you want to shelter against inflation for a year. That means you want to be able to buy in a year about what you could
There are four ways to start a small business, especially one you run out of your home. You can invest your savings You can borrow money You can seek investors You can negotiate payments in advance Most people don’t have much in savings or good enough credit to qualify for
How often do you look at your grocery receipts and congratulate yourself for saving money? Grocers today have figured out that by bundling savings deals into their prices they earn goodwill from consumers. Naturally, many grocers now tell you how much “you saved today” or “you could have saved today”
This is a question my friends and I used to debate about from time to time. As everyone started buying houses and earning value they switched to using home value to pay off credit cards. But when you don’t have a home equity line to draw on, can you really
The stock market is a complicated system. Anyone who tells you they have a sure-fire strategy for making money in the stock market is either lying or fooling themselves. The volatility in stock prices means that most people will lose some value every day. Most people who try to invest
Warren Buffett is without question one of the most successful businessmen of all time. Unlike many millionaires and billionaires who either had seed wealth handed to them or just happened to be in the right place at the right time, Buffett started out with nothing in life. In fact, he
