American Express Bank Savings Review: High Yield Savings Account

American Express has been around for 160+ years, has one of the most recognizable brands in the world and now savings accounts as well!

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Please Vote For Me In Free Money Finance March Madness!

February 6, 2009

This month over at Free Money Finance they’re holding the personal finance bloggers “March Madness” event.  Basically FMF puts together a bracket of submitted finance posts, and there is a competition to crown a champion!  What does the winner get?  Exposure on one of the biggest and best personal finance sites out there, as well [...]

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Voter Support For Stimulus Package Is Dropping

February 5, 2009

The more I’ve been hearing about the stimulus package that President Obama has been pushing these past few weeks, the less I’ve liked about it.   It seems to be full of all sorts of unnecessary spending, and a good deal of it not even targeted in ways that could actually help.  Now, according to a [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: More Blessed To Give

February 5, 2009

In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’ Acts 20:35 In our current times, the phrase  “It is more blessed to give than to receive” is one [...]

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Ask The CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™: Inheritances And 401ks

February 4, 2009

I’ve been getting a lot of reader questions lately, asking what I think they should do when faced with certain situations. I’m always happy to give advice, but this week I thought I would go to a professional for answers.  In today’s post, I’ve asked Jeff Rose from http://www.goodfinancialcents.com to answer a couple of reader [...]

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Jumpstart Your Economy: Check Out Our Posts And Submit Your Own!

February 3, 2009

I just wanted to do a quick post to recap the Money Life Network’s series from this past week called “Jumpstart YOUR Economy: Tips For Starting The New Year Off Right“.  The series takes a quick look at ways that we can all prepare for the new year, even in tough economic times.  I think [...]

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Small Decisions Equal Big Results

February 2, 2009

photo credit: elusive. One thing that I’ve learned over the past year is that the smallest of decisions can affect your financial life in a big way.   In the short term making the choices to initiate small changes in your saving and spending habits may not seem like it will make much of a difference, [...]

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Devotional: What’s Important

February 1, 2009

photo credit: Evil Monkey Ali Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, [...]

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Personal Finance Bible Verse Of The Day: Giving Back

January 30, 2009

The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.  Psalm 24:1 As a person who is interested in personal finance, and the process of creating wealth, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the topic.   You might even say that I’ve gotten a bit obsessive about it at times. One thing I’ve realized is [...]

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Emergency Funds Make Your Life Better! (Or At Least More Stress Free)

January 29, 2009

I used to think that emergency funds really weren’t necessary, that they were just something that people who were overly cautious about money worried about.  Why would i ever need to have one?  After all, that’s what credit cards are for!  If we ever have an emergency we’ll just put any expenses on the credit [...]

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Social Media Tip For Bloggers: Link Your Social Media Profiles To Your Blog URL

January 28, 2009

I was recently browsing through my Twitter stream when I saw something on the profile page of one of the social media big wigs that I thought was a great idea.    He had set it up so that he could link to any of his social media profiles just by typing in his URL and [...]

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Dealing With A Job Loss: What To Do When You’re Laid Off

January 27, 2009

photo credit: lovelypetal My wife is in the middle of a possible layoff right now, and as anyone who has been through this knows, it’s a hard situation to be in.  So often a big chunk of our self worth is tied up in what we do for a living, and then when the rug [...]

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Dillyeo.com Free $10 Gift Card Offer! Tuesday Only!

January 27, 2009

If you’ve been reading this site for long, you probably realize that I like getting stuff for free.   Today only if you sign up over at Dillyeo.com you can get a free $10 gift card! We will be launching a promotion in which we will be giving away free $10 Dillyeo.com Gift Cards on Tuesday [...]

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Jumpstart Your Economy: Doing Your First Budget

January 26, 2009

What Is A Budget? First things first. What is a budget? A budget is basically a written plan where you decide where each and every dollar will go in the coming month.   You figure out how much income you’ll have, and how much you’ll need to spend for necessities.   The difference between the [...]

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Devotional: The Value of a Person

January 25, 2009

photo credit: samirluther This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom or the strong man boast of his strength or the rich man boast of his riches, but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the Lord, who exercises [...]

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