Archive for February, 2009

Not a trip to the local grocery store goes by that my child doesn’t race to the bakery section in search of a free cookie. It is always the highlight of her trip and saves me money too. While she munches the cookie through the aisles, she rarely asks to load up other sweet (and [...]

Who doesn’t love to read the words “free shipping” when doing a little online retail therapy? Since many more people are choosing to shop online rather than spend the day at the mall, tempting their budgets, there is now a way you can save even more by completely nixing the cost of shipping fees for [...]

More commercials have been popping up on the television, advertising quick cash for your unused gold jewelry. Consumers who are short on cash may be all too willing to send off their precious items without thinking much about how the process works or the potential risks behind it.
If you are contemplating selling your gold jewelry [...]

Since many households require dual incomes to stay afloat, child care concerns are a necessary part of many family budgets. Granted, you want to ensure that your child is well-cared for by properly trained people and you can’ always rely on simply choosing a child care facility based on price. But child care is one [...]

Spring is in the air! Well perhaps only in our minds but it will be here before you know it. As the cold and dreary days of winter come to an end many people are left struggling with a bad case of cabin fever and what better way to brighten your spirits than a road trip [...]

The national foreclosure rate is not showing any sign of slowing down. Millions of Americans are at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure. On February 18th, President Barack Obama announced a plan meant to stabilize the faltering housing market. Up to 9 million families would be able to refinance or restructure [...]

 Part 2 in a series about protecting the elderly from different forms of fraud.
In the first part of this series we covered how elderly victims are often targeted or fall victim to telephone or mail fraud. Unfortunately this is only one of several ways in which our older loved ones are victimized. If you have [...]

There is not many things greater than a comfy pair of old jeans when hanging around the house but eventually those favorite pair of jeans will turn against you and either stop fitting so well or perhaps develop some holes and tears in some pretty indiscreet places. Jeans that are no longer fit to be [...]

Many of us have prized possessions, such as collectables from our youth and family heirlooms that we want to preserve for our children, our grand children, and generations to come. It might be something like an old sports card from your youth, a doll that your great grandmother owned, or some family photographs from the [...]

Recently, I am finding the clutter in our house to be more and more overwhelming. It is frustrating to not have the time to do something about it but even more frustrating to realize that all of this clutter than seemingly appears from no where is also costing my family money.
It’s not just my family [...]

This week, we were not included in the Carnival of Personal Finance for some reason, but thought we’d take the opportunity to recognize some of the other carnivals we were part of.
TAX CARNIVAL
The Tax Carnival (#48) liked us enough to include Tisha’s post about Tips for Choosing the Right Tax Preparation Service.  I have never [...]

If you make smart decisions with your money and do “rich people” stuff with money long enough, eventually, you’re going to become pretty wealthy. If you’ve been effective with your money long enough and start to see some pretty decent sized numbers piling up in your savings account, you start to have the opportunity to [...]

There are a lot of personal finance sites out on the web, some of which have been around just a few weeks and others that have been around for several years. Normally I don’t toot other blogger’s horns too much, but I’ve found another financial web-log that’s definitely worth checking out. The site is billeater.com; [...]

As we all work to save every penny we can, the postal service will be raising the prices of their first class mail stamp an additional two cents. The new price of the stamps, which are currently $.42, will move up to $.44 starting on May 11, 2009.
The US Postal Service sited the reason for [...]