How To Get A Spouse To Start Budgeting

August 31, 2010
Budgeting With Your Spouse

This post is by Craig Ford.  Craig, a freelance writer and missionary, blogs at Money Help For Christians.  Today is the last day that you can get a copy Craig’s eBook, The Secret to a Successful Budget for 30% off. Married couples don’t always see eye to eye.  If you’re married, you didn’t need me [...]

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What Is An Economic Bubble Anyway?

August 30, 2010
What Is An Economic Bubble

It seems nearly every financial publication released today has the term “bubble” in it somewhere. Many of us know it’s a bad thing, but what does it really mean and how do they happen? Do they truly have an effect on the average consumer? Hopefully we can clear up the confusion of what an economic [...]

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Buying A New Or Used Car? Negotiating Tips To Use With Car Dealers

August 26, 2010
Car Buying Tips

For most people, buying a used car will be the 1st or 2nd most expensive purchase that you’ll make – depending on whether you own a home.  Unfortunately far too many people just don’t do their research, and don’t  try very hard to find the best deal because they just feel intimidated when going to [...]

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How To Get Free Financial Help Online

August 25, 2010
Free Financial Help Online

I’ve talked a lot over at One Money Design about my personal experience as a Money Map Coach and often share how this FREE program is a helpful resource for people experiencing financial challenges. In short, the coaching services are FREE and available through Crown Financial Ministries.  Crown is dedicated to equipping people worldwide to [...]

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Would You Give Up Your Favorite Financial Sin To Achieve Financial Freedom?

August 24, 2010
Financial Sin

This is a guest post written by Jesse Michelsen, the creator of Personal Finance Firewall. On his site he writes about taking every tiny detail into account when managing personal finances, and gives tips on ways to make it easier for those with full lives. I often listen to motivation speeches and read spiritual, uplifting [...]

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Best Of Money Carnival #65

August 23, 2010
Best Of Money

It’s that time again, the time when we all wonder – who will be chosen as one of the top 10 posts of the week in this week’s Best Of Money Carnival?  It’s not easy to narrow it down when there are over 50-60 posts submitted every week, but I’m going to do my best! [...]

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Higher Education Can Have A Negative Effect On Your Level Of Wealth

August 18, 2010
Education And Wealth

We’re all used to hearing that if we want to get ahead in life, you need to get a college education.   Today I want to talk about an idea that is rarely discussed.  The idea that education can negatively affect your bottom line! Education And Wealth:  Millionaires Are Well Educated Now before we get too [...]

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Increase Your Productivity With These Three Powerful Tools

August 16, 2010
Productivity Tools

There is nothing like the feeling of a hard day’s work, where everything has been taken care of and you have nothing else to accomplish. But for many, that’s the ideal day, and not the norm. If you ever feel that your productivity is lagging behind, you’re going to need some new techniques and tools [...]

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What Should I Do If My Identity Is Stolen? Identity Theft Checklist.

August 13, 2010

One thing that none of us ever wants to deal with is having our identity stolen.  No matter how your identity gets stolen, it is one of the biggest invasions of your privacy to have someone besmirch your good name and trash your credit by making unauthorized purchases, getting fraudulent loans and doing whatever they [...]

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Will You Pay For Your Kids To Go To College?

August 11, 2010
Should You Pay For Your Child's College Education?

Paying for our kid’s college has been near the top of our personal finance goals list for a long time. There are a number of reasons I personally feel strongly about this goal: I know what it’s like to have school loans (both my wife and I had them). I have a Biblical perspective on [...]

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Do You Share Equal Financial Responsibility With Your Spouse?

August 10, 2010
Sharing Financial Responsibility

It’s inevitable. An individual within a married couple will become the main financial person. It’s common knowledge that over the course of marriage, either the husband or wife will emerge as the “one who does the finances.” But should this be allowed to be taken to the extreme? Should only one be in charge of [...]

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Mortgage Forgiveness For Underwater Homeowners: Will Obama Forgive Billions Of Dollars In Mortgage Principal?

August 9, 2010
Mortgage Forgiveness For Underwater Homeowners

I was reading up on what’s new in the mortgage markets and the economy over the weekend, and one piece of reporting caught my eye because it seemed like it couldn’t possibly be true.  It was talking about how the Obama administration is considering making a move later this month where Fannie Mae and Freddie [...]

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New 1099 Reporting Requirements In Obama Health Care Plan: A Small Business Paperwork Nightmare?

August 5, 2010
1099 Reporting For Small Business

When The Obama Health Care law passed this year few people actually knew what was fully contained within the bill’s thousands of pages. Only now after the law has been passed are we finding out the details about some of the provisions within the law that could affect us. A lot of people aren’t happy [...]

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Wealthy Heiress’s Empty Mansions Attest To How Material Things Can’t Buy Happiness

August 4, 2010
Empty Mansions

Up on a bluff on the Pacific Ocean sits Bellosguardo – or “Beautiful view.” – a $100 million dollar mansion owned by a reclusive billionaire and 104 year old heiress Huguette Clark. By any account the mansion is beautiful, and the estate is one that any person would love to call home. The thing is, [...]

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