I have a story for you. A “perfect storm” of vacation credit card problems left my sister in Greece with only 100 Euros in her pocket. The issues sprouted from another trip thousands of miles away. Here is the rundown, and the lesson learned, from the experience.
It has happened to all of us at one point or another, we see something that we want but do not have the cash in the bank to buy it.
Last night I went to a large social event for Jewish grad students and young professionals in my town. It was a lot of fun. I had a good time and met some cool people. I didn’t bust the bank on the bar crawl (only did one drink per bar rather than the two or
Programmable thermostats are amazing inventions. We have a new one in my house that was put in just before I moved it. It is one of the simplest ones out there, but it works. Why are they great inventions? They can save you tons of money. The highest utility cost in this house is gas.
Update: Thrive has been shut down, but you can still see my always up-to-date list of free money management tools. You all know that my favorite part of the personal finance arsenal is Mint, a banking aggregation site that helps with budgeting and transaction history. Thrive has popped up as Mint’s number one competition. The
Everyone keeps talking about how the economy is so bad and there is a big recession and the world is going to end. I would not say it is quite an apocalypse. All of the hype is half of the cause of problems. I don’t think we are in a traditional recession, I think we
