Author: mnc

List Of The Best Financial Advice 7

List Of The Best Financial Advice

Brian over at FinancialDominance.com has tagged me to participate in the My One Money Advice meme. This meme was started by Pinoyo over at Moolanomy in an effort to help promote financial responsibility and...

Discover Your Money Personality 1

Discover Your Money Personality

In the discussion on the post about how to setup laddered certificates, Mark Anderesen made a comment that touched on the money personalities of people. When you evaluate a financial product or service, you...

More Invites To The Motley Fool 4

More Invites To The Motley Fool

Still looking for an invite to The Motley Fool? The 20 invitations that I had available disappeared quickly but one of the people that I invited is offering his invitations as well. The last...

Feeling Out of Touch with Finances 11

Feeling Out of Touch with Finances

How often do you balance your checkbook and check on bills? The routine that I typically use is to call our “bank-by-phone” number or log into our online account once per week to do...

Net Worth Update: July 2007 0

Net Worth Update: July 2007

As a means of tracking my progress towards my 2007 goals, I am going to be running this as an on-going series of posts. As a bit of background, here are the opening posts...

How To Trim Your Budget 1

How To Trim Your Budget

Would you like a little more breathing room in your budget? Whether you follow a very strict monthly budget where you allocate each dollar to specific goals or follow a more loose budget where...

Join The Motley Fool Discussion Boards 44

Join The Motley Fool Discussion Boards

A few weeks back I had mentioned that The Motley Fool was going to be eliminating their membership service and the discussion boards would be free for everyone to read. However, in order to...

Federal Minimum Wage Increase 8

Federal Minimum Wage Increase

Effective today the federal minimum wage has increased to $5.85 per hour. This is the first increase to the federal minimum wage since September 1997 and ends the longest period without a federal minimum...

Extracurricular Costs Adding Up 0

Extracurricular Costs Adding Up

Do you budget for your kid’s extracurricular activities? How do you limit which activities your child can pursue? Is it by cost or by interest? This summer we have had a handful of costs...