Archive for March, 2007
Credit Cards with the Best Rewards
Consumer credit has become so rampant in this modern era that people are using credit cards for purchases as low as a dollar, and are often times financing that pack of bubble gum over the next thirty years. Some people do pay off their credit card every month though. If you are going to use [...]
Cars with the Best Gas Mileage
I’m not sure how much gas is in your part of the country right now, but in South Dakota it’s already up to $2.55 a gallon. There are no signs of prices dropping and chances are with increased demand for gasoline in the summer, prices are only going to go up from here. If you [...]
Late Library Book? Unpaid Parking Ticket? Say Goodbye To Your Credit Score
Credit scores are an interesting result of the expansion of the free market and the growth of technology in the last decade. You now have a number associated with you and that number determines whether or not you can rent an apartment, get a cell phone, or qualify for a home mortgage. You can probably [...]
Why God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayers About Money
For Christians, prayer is a rather amazing concept. Many discount our faith, but we know that God will listen to us and our concerns, and do what’s best for us. Jesus even tells us in the book of Mark that “Have faith in God, Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe [...]
Marriage and Money: When a Saver Marries a Spender
In marriage, often times one person is a super saver. This person wants to put any extra money that comes in straight to the bank account and keep expenses as low as humanly possible. The other person who is the spender is not terribly concerned about budgeting and spends money as they please. It’s very [...]
Banking Reviews: Huntington Direct’s Online Savings Account
New online savings banks appear to be popping up left and right. Recently we saw the creation of FNBO Direct and now the next competitor has entered the market. Hunting National Bank has created an online arm they call Huntington Direct and are offering high-yield savings accounts at a very competitive rate of 5.20% APY. [...]
Living Without a Vehicle
Owning a personal vehicle such as a car, truck, van, SUV, or motorcycle has become a way of life for practically ever adult American. We use our cars to get to work, to drive to church, to go pickup groceries, to drop off the kids, you name it, and we’re driving there. The average American [...]
This Week in Finance #2: TGIF Edition
This Week in Personal Finance is a collection of particularly insightful and unique articles from personal finance websites around the web.Blogging Away Debt had some happy news this week when she found out that she’ll be having a baby! Bringing a new child into the world is a great blessing. Congratulations to her and her [...]
Great Ways for Teens to Make Money
Perhaps you want to get your first car or maybe save up for your college education. You might just want to have some more money in your savings account, or have some more cash to impress your special someone. Don’t worry, just because you’re not a full adult doesn’t mean you can’t make some pretty [...]
Shopping Smart on the Net.
In the last decade, the internet has revolutionized the shopping experience. Instead of heading to the mall and looking through each and every store, we can now hop onto Froogle and eBay to shop to our heart’s content. We have access to millions of new products which we did not before and all of these [...]
The History of the Federal Income Tax
It’s almost hard to imagine, but back in the year 1913 the highest tax bracket in the United States was a mere 7%, and it only applied to people making $500,000 a year, which would be about $26,000,000 in today’s dollars! By 1917, the top tax rate had jumped up to 15% for those who [...]
Carnival of Financial Books and Podcasts #3
Getting Green decided to take some of the burden off of Nancy over at Frugal Strategies Blog this week and is hosting the third edition of the Carnival of Financial Books and Podcasts. This is a relatively new and growing carnival which focuses on books about money, as well as the increasingly popular podcast medium. [...]
What to Do When You Have a Car You Can’t Afford
We know that purchases are based on emotion, so it makes sense that sometimes people will buy vehicles based on their feelings about a certain type of car or a new car versus an older car, rather than by logic and what one could and one could not afford. Sometimes people lose their jobs, and [...]
This Week in Personal Finance: #1
This Week in Personal Finance is a collection of particularly insightful and unique articles from personal finance websites around the web. Trent over at The Simple Dollar wrote a great article on how to overcome spending addiction. He’s one of a small group of personal finance bloggers that realizes the “person” part of personal finance [...]
How To Sell Your House in 168 Hours
Let’s say the unfortunate happens and you have an expensive medical bill or have lost a job. Money is really tight and you just can’t make the mortgage payment. You’re behind, before you know it the bank will come and foreclose on your home and you need to sell it and fast. If you let [...]
Comprehensive Reviews of 16 High-Yield Savings Accounts
Are you considering picking out a new online savings account or perhaps considering switching to a new online savings account? Be sure to do your research and carefully select which high-yield online savings account will best suit your needs. Each has slightly different features, fees, and interest rates. You really need to review your options [...]
7 Rules for eBay Selling Success
EBay is really a modern marvel of electronic commerce at its best. It’s the world’s largest garage sale, and then a few million listings on top of that! You can sell and buy practically anything on there, heck Golden Palace bought a half eaten grilled cheese sandwich for tens of thousands of dollars! It’s become [...]
Don’t Get Your MBA Online
There are a very great many people who would like to be successful in the business world. Some of them will just look upon success from a distance envying it and never being able to achieve it. Others will look for a shortcut to get there without doing the hard work that it takes to [...]
$75.00 E-Loan Online Savings New Sign-Up Bonus
For those in the market for a new online savings account, E-Loan just created a very interesting offer which will give you about $75.00 for signing up with a new account. If you’ve never considered E-Loan as a place to bank with before, go ahead and read my full review of their online savings product. [...]
Banking Reviews: AmTrust Direct’s E-Money Market Savings
There are dozens of different banks offering high-yield online savings accounts. Most of them have very similar features and very similar rates, and it can sometimes be a bit difficult to figure out which is the best for you. AmTrust Direct has been consistently advertising on Getting Green for some time now, so I decided [...]
Don’t Watch Financial Shows
For some reason, Americans tend to think if something is on TV or in print, that it’s more likely to be true than if it comes out of somebody’s mouth or is on the internet. This statement is actually probably true, however there is still a number of things which end up on the television [...]
Pay Day Loans: They Just Don’t Make Sense
Over the summer a previous I had picked up a summer internship with the state doing technology work in a town about an hour away called Sioux Falls, which has a population of about 150,000. He was able to rent a bedroom from a couple he knew for only $200 a month, what a steal. [...]
Upromise: Free Money For College
I was browsing around the internet one day and one of my classmates sent me a link to a website called Upromise which made it self to be essentially free money for college. Basically, you register your credit card, and whatever money you spend at specific partner stores, they will give you a small percentage [...]
Five Signs You’re In Financial Trouble
1. You worry about your next paycheck or source of income. It’s amazing that 65% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck. If the next paycheck didn’t come in, most people would be in serious trouble. If you’re one of these people, chances are you have quite a few bills to pay, mouths to feed, [...]
Algoco: Get Paid To Surf is Back
During the ecommerce boom of the late 1990′s, companies such as All Advantage and Spedia came about which paid consumers to download a program which would display advertisements on the users computer and also pay them to refer other people to the program. After the crash of internet companies in mid 2000, their venture capital [...]
Tired of Writing Checks for Tuition? Get the university to write you checks!
In a perfect world, college would be affordable and everyone would be able to go without issue. Reality is a lot less ideal than that; the only way that many people can afford to attend college is by picking up massive amounts of debt. One woman decided that she wanted to get away from her [...]
Personal Finance Basics: Credit Card Terms Explained
Most every adult in America has a credit card, but very few take the time to look hard at their statement and understand what everything means. Rather they just pay their minimum payment and some of the ‘smarter’ credit card holders pay more than the minimum. Take the time and learn all about all of [...]
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