My New Choice

It is quite common to hear discussions of certain types of debt as good debt or bad debt, with student loans often being classified as a “good” debt. There is an article on WashingtonPost.com, Lesson for Students: The Best Debt is None, that indicates more and more students are finding out that student loans [...]

Have you embraced paying your bills online or are you more old-fashioned with a preference for hand writing checks and mailing bills? Up until recently, I have always preferred to write out my checks and mail each bill.
However, within the last year or so, I have started to pay more of my bills online. [...]

As a new week begins, I am participating in a couple of blog carnivals.  Please take a moment to check out the current carnivals as there are some really great posts included this week:

Carnival of Debt Reduction
Carnival of Personal Finance

Enjoy and please be sure to come back and share your thoughts on this week’s posts!

Did you receive an income tax refund last year? According to the Principal Financial Well-Being Index, 84% of the workers surveyed were expecting a refund on their 2005 state or federal taxes.
With the average American household carrying about $8000 in credit card debt, the average tax refund of approximately $2500 could eliminate over 30% [...]

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger just concluded the latest group writing project that is a collection of ‘How To…” posts and articles, which included my post on teaching your children how to save.
Now that the writing project has concluded, I thought I would share a list of my favorite posts that relate to personal finance (as [...]

In many families, money is a taboo topic that is not to be discussed with the children. Unfortunately this results in many children growing up without learning the basics of personal finance until they have experienced a few hard lessons.
In an effort to educate our kids about personal finance and the importance of saving [...]

In the latest installment of the Carnival of Personal Finance, hosted by Free Money Finance, there are numerous tips and tricks related to personal finance, saving money and eliminating debt. Included in the carnival is my post on how to save $138 in ten minutes.
Enjoy the carnival this week!

When I graduated from college, I found myself with substantial student loan payments and credit card debt from my days in school. While I knew that something had to be done to get rid of my debt, I didn’t really know what to do.

As I surfed the web, I had come across the Motley [...]