Success comes to those with the right name. In America, you’re sure to have doors opened for you if your surnamed Walton (of the Walmart fame), Koch (Koch Industries) or Mars (think Snickers and M&M’s), names that are synonymous with “old rich”. But the name game means so much more today in the wake of [...]
Photo by: A Fighting FaithNo, I’m not talking about the ol’ “Bill Gates will send you money if you forward this email” spoof. I am talking about Microsoft’s Usability Research team. Clearly Microsoft has a lot of new products that need testing, and it can’t all be done in house; they need a larger audience [...]
Photo by: emdot Only 0 days 5 hours 2 minutes left until Hanks Holiday Handout drawing! To make my goal of having my net worth be $1,000,000USD by 2020 I need to have a plan laid out. Yes it will change through the years, My wife and I will get raises; we won’t get the [...]
Oh, where to start with this one; it is a fairly dead horse to beat, but I DID recently read it, and it DOES have to do with my blog as I’m posting anything that has to do with money, and it certainly DOES have to do with money ($7 specifically from the discount book [...]
So I decided to try out Flexo’s monthly expense template, and it isn’t looking too promising for me this month. I’m doling out more than I am taking in this month. Off the top, that sounds like it is bad, but really it isn’t TOO bad. I figured my cash allowance was high this past [...]
UPDATE! AGLOCO CALLS IT QUITS! How long have people asked this question? I suppose since the beginning of money. I certainly have had my fair share falling for scams. Without a big investment you’re kind of limited in your options. I have never had a lot of cash to work for me so I have [...]
We’ve had a post (or 2 or 3) go across here preaching several ways to make money online with today’s tricky economic woes. Well, we’ve stumbled across another (Thanks Pete). Pete has cashed in a few hundred dollars with the site and has sold me on it. Once you get the ball rolling, it REALLY [...]
I’ve had 2 posts worth of BAD investing decisions so far (1, 2). I didn’t want people to think I’ve not made any GOOD decisions, because I have, just not as many yet. I’m still young, had no financial education, and had some bad financial advice early in my career. But I’m riding the wave [...]
So yes, I’ve been in hiding for a while now, but it hasn’t been without keeping finances in mind! I’m a month away from having the third member of the family join us, our third little lady is due August 25 – so I’ve been working on some side projects – one of which is [...]
One of the major goals of my site (written in my disclaimer) is to be able to give my children a better financial education than I received when I was growing up. The most financial education I have now is that I should be as frugal as humanly possible in every situation as we didn’t have [...]
