There’s a small percentage of the population who flies on a regular basis for work or pleasure, but most of us only ever get on a plane to go on a vacation, and maybe very rarely for a business trip. It’s a fairly uncommon occurrence, so it’s no surprise that most people don’t know all [...]
May 30th, 2007 | admin | Comments | ContinuedArchive for May, 2007
2 Years of Freedom
Two years ago today, I was pouring over my financial records, feeling the pressure of credit card debt and student loans piling ever higher. I was spending more than I made, I didn’t even know how to write let alone follow a monthly budget. I had $7,000 in student loans and close to another $1000 [...]
May 27th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
The Ten Commandments of Money
Would you like to be able to work less? How about buy a new car? Maybe get a nicer house? We all have things that we’d like to get, but we just don’t have the money to do so. Fortunately, everyone can become wealthy if they continually do smart things with money for a long [...]
May 24th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Using Credit Card Rewards to Cut Back on the High Cost of Gasoline
Gasoline prices have recently hit an all time high. The other day I had to fill up and had the privilege of paying $3.39 per gallon, and that was for the 10% ethanol blend which is subsidized! The regular gasoline cost a whopping $3.49. In fact, right now only two states have average gasoline prices [...]
May 23rd, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Five Personal Finance Myths That You Need To Ignore
A lot of hear some basic tenets of personal finance when we’re young, and tend to accept them as fact without ever really thinking about the merits of the statements being made. At this time, we’re too young to know the difference, and we hear these things from adults, so we accept that they are [...]
May 22nd, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Eating Cheap, Quick, and Health.
When you’re in college, or are just a young adult on your own, chances are you aren’t taking the time to cook and make some decent food. It’s hard to get in the habit of doing so when you’re the only person you are cooking for. Instead we revert to fast food, frozen dinners, and [...]
May 18th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
How to Eat on the Cheap in the Big City
Up until a couple of hundred years ago, eating out really wasn’t much of an option. There were pubs for drinking, but not much of anything for restaurants. Now there’s a café on seemingly ever street corner in every major metropolitan area. In most cases the food is just as good if not better than [...]
May 16th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Save Money on Prescription Drugs with Free Samples
Whenever you have to go to the doctor, it seems like you almost always get a prescription for something or another! Thanks to modern medicine, there’s a pill or injection for just about every sort of infection or virus that we can get, with the exception of a few of the major things that we [...]
May 15th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Shortage of Posts
I’m sure by now you’ve noticed a severe shortage of posts on Getting Green in the last few weeks. I’ve had a series of nasty final projects, final tests, and have moved for the summer. On top of that, my wedding has regrettably been called off. I’ll spare you the details, but sufficely to say, [...]
May 14th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Cavalcade of Risk – May 9th, 2007 Edition
Welcome to the May 9th edition of the Cavalcade of risk. We’ve had a lot of great entries this week. It’s been pretty crazy with finals, so I haven’t been able to post much, but that should improve in the next couple of weeks quite a bit.
Here are this week’s entries:
Managing Risk in a Home [...]
The Difference Between Frugal and Cheap
There are two types of people who spend very little money, but they are two very distinct sets of people. Some people do smart things with money, but the way they do it takes away from other people financially. These people are referred to as stingy or cheap. There are also those of us who [...]
May 7th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Teach Your Teenager Money Management Skills
If you have a teenager in your life, there’s a chance that they are a handful. It’s hard enough to get them to behave themselves and not break anything or get themselves in trouble with the law, let alone teach them about some of the finer points of life. Sometimes it might seem as if [...]
May 6th, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Ways to Save Energy in Your Home
A lot of us have very reasonable utility bills that we have no problem paying. They’re usually between $50 and $100 a month, and just think of them as part of the cost of owning a home or renting an apartment. It might not seem like a lot, but the cost of residential energy isn’t [...]
May 3rd, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Frugal Gift Giving Ideas
Gift giving has always been a bit of a touchy subject in our society. There are some situations that it seems we are obligated to give gifts, and if for whatever reason we don’t, then we are accused of being cheap-skates or jerks. Sometimes people expect gifts when you don’t feel an obligation to give [...]
May 2nd, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
Inexpensive First Date Ideas
I’ve always had a bit of a problem with dating. Guys finally get the guts to ask a girl for her phone number, only to call them up, and be incredibly nervous or disingenuous about who they are. People date, and they’re still putting on their best face, and they do so for months, without [...]
May 1st, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
How to Eat on $20.00 a Month.
Statistically you will have a major financial crisis in the next seven to ten years. You don’t know how it’s going to happen or when it’s going to happen, but chances are it’s going to happen. It could be a job layoff, a medical problem, a lost loved one, an automobile accident, or something else. [...]
May 1st, 2007 | admin | Comments | Continued
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