Archive for February, 2007
Why You Should Consolidate Student Loans
College tuition has increased at rates well above inflation in the last few decades in order to support the cost of highly-trained professors, university research, facilities, activities, equipment and the like. College has gotten so expensive that most students can’t afford to pay for it upfront any more, and according to a recent NPSAS study [...]
Seven Ways to Spend Less Money on Movies
Everyone enjoys taking a few hours, going down to the local movie theater getting some popcorn, kicking back and watching one of the latest Hollywood Blockbusters, but it can get rather expensive. The same goes if you want to go out and buy a new DVD, sure it’s enjoyable, but at $15-$20 a pop for [...]
What God Has To Say about Money Part 4: Tithing
In the last few days, we’ve been taking a look at a number of different things in the bible relating to money. We’ve looked at what the bible has to say about debt, investing, and being generous, today we’re going to take a look at one of the more controversial issues when it comes to [...]
The Ultimate Guide to Making Money through Freelance Writing Online
When it comes to the internet, there’s a motto that says “content is king.” There are a lot of places on the internet that would like to make money through advertising, but they need some content to draw readers there, which has created an opportunity for anyone with half-way decent writing skills to make some [...]
Don’t Bank At Wells Fargo
I live in a small town of about 7,000 people, and even though I live in just about as rural of a place as it gets in this country, I still have four different banks that I could choose to make use of, and that’s just on a local basis. If I wanted to an [...]
March Reader Appreciation Giveaway
Wow, it’s (almost) already March. This year is absolutely flying by! This is the third month of Getting Green’s existence, and we’re very happy to be able to each each and everyone of you how to handle your money just a bit better. We teach nothing but sound, conservative, and Christian financial views and make [...]
Ten Facts the Credit Card Industry Doesn’t Want You to Know
The idea of a credit card is a peculiar notion that has only come about in the last fifty years. Instead of paying for purchases with wealth that we already have, we are now borrowing money for every day purchases, even things as quick trip to McDonalds or a bottle of pop from a vending [...]
Are You the Next Automatic Millionaire?
If you take a walk down to the local bricks and mortar version of Amazon.com, chances are you’ll find a number of different books about money. Now we all know that we should pay close attention to our finances, but who has the time? We’ll be lucky to read one book a year about money, [...]
What God Has To Say About Money Part 3: Investing
For the last few days, we’ve been taking a look at what the Bible has to say about money. So far the bible has been very straight forward about the topics of debt and being generous, however investing is a bit more of a peculiar topic. In the last 2000 years, investing have become exponentially [...]
How to Talk to Your Parents about Money (For Young Adults)
If talking to your children about money is like holding their hand while they try to ride a bicycle for the first time, talking with your parents is like holding their hand while you walk through a minefield with them. There are a few instances where you might come out okay, but there are a [...]
WOWIO: Free Books, Like the Library, But Better! (And a Free iPod Shuffle)
Libraries are really an amazing resource. You have thousands of books to read at your finger tips, yet very few people actually make use of them. A lot of people just order books of Amazon because it’s more convenient to do so, but what if you could read free books on your computer for nothing. [...]
Great Ways to Grow Your Net Worth
The best way to measure your financial success is how much money you have. It’s not how sophisticated your financial plan is, or what your credit score, it’s your net worth. It’s simply a calculation of everything you own minus everything you owe, it’s how much money you have! Since I’m in college and have [...]
What God Has To Say About Money Part 2: Generosity and Giving
This week we’re taking a look at what the Bible has to say about money. Yesterday we took a look at what references there are to debt in the Bible, and today we’re going to look at what God thinks about being generous and being a giver. The bible is very clear on this subject. [...]
Making The Most Of Your Coupons Without Going Coupon Crazy
I’ve always tried to be quite frugal with money, but coupon clipping was something that I didn’t even think about considering until just a few months ago. I always though coupons really weren’t anything more than encouragements for me to buy things that I didn’t need anyway. I realized that I spend a certain amount [...]
Great Alternatives To PayPal
In the last few years, it’s become quite apparent that there are some real problems with using PayPal to send and receive money. Recently I wrote an article entitled “The Problem With PayPal” describing its many flaws and questionable policies. With PayPal, you waive the right to being able to use a charge-back to get [...]
The Problem With Savings Bonds
When my fiancé and her brother were younger, one of the wealthier businessmen in her small town gave them savings bonds as gifts for use in their college education. Her brother happened to call us the other night and asked how he might be able to cash his out because he was having a bit [...]
What God Has To Say About Money Part One: Debt
This week we’re going to do something a little bit different on Getting Green. Instead of me preaching the conservative financial advice that I normally give, we’re going to look at what someone else has to say about money, some one much more important than you, me, or anyone else—God. Even if you’re not a [...]
How to Get Yourself Out of a Financial Mess
After my first year of college, I came to the stark realization that I had several thousand dollars in student loan debt and a credit card bill that was getting a bit higher each month, and definitely was not moving in the right direction. I had next to nothing in savings, and even worse, I [...]
Ten Ways to Start Spending Less Money This Week
It’s tax season once again, the time to look for all of those receipts you promised yourself you would save at this time this year. You have to scrounge around for all sorts of paperwork, and spend hours trying to figure out the tax code which is longer than several novels. When all is said [...]
How to Avoid Get Ripped-Off When Trying to Make Money Online
When the internet first came out, it really wasn’t much more than a novelty for people who knew a lot about computers. Eventually businesses realized that they could extend themselves online and potentially make a lot more money. In the late 1990’s commerce on the internet snowballed when venture capitalists began investing in anyone who [...]
10 Ways to Make Money without Spending a Dime.
There’s not one of us who would enjoy having a little bit of extra money in our checking accounts at the end of the month. We don’t get part-time jobs because it will take away the little precious time that we do have for ourselves, and we don’t start part-time small businesses because we have [...]
Banking Reviews: GMAC Bank’s Money Market Savings Account
Let’s face it, banks which offer high-yield savings accounts are a dime a dozen these days, and the market has practically been commoditized. Whoever offers the best rate at the time will generally draw the majority of new customers. There are so many different options to place your savings at that it makes it rather [...]
The Problem With Suze Orman
If you happen to turn on MSNBC every now and then or have gone down to your local bookstore, chances are you’ve seen her television show, her radio show, or on the cover of one of her books. She bills her self as an “internationally acclaimed personal finance expert,” which many people regard her as. [...]
Telephone Excise Tax: Get An Extra $60 From the IRS This Year!
One hundred years ago when the American government thought that it needed to go to war, it didn’t just borrow money up to its eyeballs as it does today. Rather it had to find a way to raise the money, since it was much harder for the government to borrow large sums of money. One [...]
Banking Reviews: UFB Direct’s High-Yield Money Market Savings
If you’ve been looking for any sort of savings account, you know that there are dozens if not hundreds of different banks that would love to take your money and give you quite a decent rate of return for savings accounts. ING Direct pioneered the business in the late 1990’s, and now dozens of other [...]
The Reverse Mortgage: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
For whatever reason, a lot of people fail to plan for their retirement. They know that retirement is coming sometime and that they can’t work forever, but don’t take any active steps in order to successfully plan for their retirement. They find themselves at age 65 without any money, probably some debt, and nothing but [...]
Why I’m Going to Graduate School (And Why You Should Too!)
It’s kind of hard to imagine that I’ve already been going to school for sixteen years, seventeen if you count preschool. By this time, most people would rather just be done and over with their education and actually start taking home that big paycheck. After making the low five figures, I can see why it [...]
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