Friday Financial Tidbit-Only one month left in 2012, so make it count!
If you are like me, it’s hard to believe that December is here. It seems like just a few weeks ago that we were celebrating New Year’s and looking ahead to what 2012 had in store for us. But now that...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Putting marriage and children over becoming debt-free
Recently I have started to notice a disturbing trend lately in the personal finance world: the number of articles detailing how younger couples are putting off marriage and having children due to...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Stay away from financial junk food
We know we shouldn’t do it, it’s bad for our financial health, yet we still do it. What am I talking about? I’m talking about financial junk food. Financial junk food looks different to each...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Why I continue to invest when no one else does
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. As of this writing the Dow Jones Industrial Average, which measures stock market activity, is close to 14,000. It closed at 13,860 on...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Your finances aren’t built in a day
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. Last September I had the privilege to attend the Quitter conference presented by Jon Acuff in Nashville, TN. I did a recap of the...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-What’s your system?
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. I don’t usually watch a lot of TV in my free time. That’s because I have other things that are more important to me such as hanging...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-What running has taught me about personal finance
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. Each and every spring I always find myself going through the same routine. Sometimes it’s earlier in the spring, other times it’s...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Saving is different from investing
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. If you have heard it once, you have heard it a million times; you need to save and invest more money. While those are both true...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Keys to getting your house ready to sell
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. As many of you know already from listening to the podcast, my wife Lisa and I are in the process of selling our condo. The reason is...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-What appeals to you most when it comes to living debt...
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. The other day I was pondering what appeals most to me when it comes to living debt free. After thinking about it for a while and...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Does it matter what the student loan interest rate is?
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. With all the drama going on in Washington over whether to keep student loans’ interest rates at 3.4%, let them double to 6.8%, or...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Are your finances actually easier when in debt?
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. If you know much about me, after reading the title of this article you might have wondered if I meant to write this for April Fool’s...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Being house poor
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. When it comes to discussing the things that hold most people back financially, the first few things that come to mind are lack of...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-At the end of the day, it is just stuff
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. I’ve got to be honest with you; I really underestimated the impact moving would have on my life. I thought it would be a week or so...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Is it greedy to want to make more money?
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. I think we all want to make more money. We dream about how nice it would be to have a little bit more to give, save, or spend each...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-The best financial decision you have ever made
To receive notifications of new posts, please join our email list. Usually every Friday I write about ways to improve your finances, save money, or share my views of complicated financial topics. Well...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-Add some financial margin into your life
Is it just me or does it seem like almost everybody today is stretched to their max? We are so busy that we never get a chance to enjoy what we are actually doing because we have to get ready to run to...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-What I am thankful for
Lately I’ve been asking you, the readers of the blog, some personal financial questions to answer on your own. I’ve asked you what the best financial decision you ever made was as well as what would be...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-What would you do with $10,000?
If someone handed you $10,000 today free and clear, what would you do with it and why? That might sounds like a dumb question. But to me, how you answer that questions tells me a lot about your dreams...
View ArticleFriday Financial Tidbit-The power of a list
In an effort to help out my wife while she is taking care of our newborn son, I’ve been running to the store a lot lately to get diapers, medicine, or anything else we don’t have readily available at...
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