Raise your hand if you like working with your checkbook. Yeah, that’s what I thought. If you’re still using a paper checkbook, you are missing out on about 8 billion benefits to going the “digital” route, so to speak. But the most important one is this: no more math slip-ups. I used to work at…
Personal finance site Christian Personal Finance (the home to my very first guest post – thanks again, Bob!) is celebrating two years of providing great advice on the web! Happy birthday, ChristianPF! In honor of their birthday, they are giving away both a Nintendo Wii and an iPod! If you are a fellow blogger, you…
Credit cards. Student loans. Car payments. Mortgages. Interest rates. Investments. We adults sure know how to complicate things, don’t we? Personal finance blog Christian Personal Finance recently put a post on lessons learned in the first grade that still apply to us today. While it focuses on money, it also speaks to our attitude towards…
I’ve recently talked about the idea that government bailouts aren’t teaching us to be responsible, but there is a new article up at Five Cent Nickel that asks, "Is Personal Responsibility Dead?": Unless you’ve been lost at sea for the better part of seven years, you’re likely aware of the economic problems that have pushed…
Twitter is annoying. There, I said it. I’m not going to pretend that all the benefits of using Twitter are really apparent to everyone. From the outside, it looks like an incredible time-waster, and completely useless to everyone. Just another stupid Internet fad. But to those of us who have gotten familiar with Twitter, we…
