My New Choice

With an estimated jackpot of approximately $370 million for tonight’s drawing, one of my co-workers made the rounds today asking if people wanted to take a chance for the Mega Millions jackpot.
Waste of Money.
While I am completely aware that playing the lottery is about the same as crumpling up your money and throwing it on [...]

This week my post discussing Financial Accountability has been included in the Carnival of Personal Finance being hosted at Mapgirl’s Fiscal Challenge.
My Favorites.
Wow, there are so many quality posts in this carnival that I had a hard time pulling out a few of my favorites. It looks like Mapgirl had a fair amount of [...]

Since I have started this website, I have had the opportunity to *meet* quite a few new and interesting people. One of those people is Stephen Fung, who owns and operates a couple of different businesses including Futurelooks and MEGA Tech News.
The other night I had an opportunity to have an email conversation with [...]

This week my post discussing the I’m In Debt - MTV True Life episode has been included in the Carnival of Debt Reduction being hosted at Climbing Out of Debt.
My Favorites.
As usual, I like to read through the carnival submissions and highlight a few of my favorite posts that I think you will enjoy. [...]

After being the beneficiary of having my posts linked to by a few other sites, I thought I would participate in a similar practice as I know how nice it feels to have one of your posts recognized by other bloggers.
First, I would like to thank Saman at Samanthon.com, Nick at Oubipaws.org and [...]

Assuming that you have children, do you take the time to discuss finances with them? Do you involve them in family financial discussions and decisions? When I was a child, I really do not recall ever talking about money issues with my parents as it seemed that money was not a topic for [...]

There was a new release put out by WordPress.org today due to a potential security exploit for anyone that downloaded v2.1.1 within the last 3 or 4 days.
While I had downloaded and installed v2.1.1 more than 3-4 days ago, I have opted to go ahead and update my site to the latest version to try [...]

How do you handle an increase in monthly income as a result of a salary increase at work? At my employer, they conduct annual reviews for all employees at the same time of year and right now is that time. As a matter of fact, I had my review on Tuesday and received [...]