More than two years ago I posted Your Problem Isn’t Starbucks, emphasizing the importance of Saving Strategy # 5: Major on the major, minor on the minor. Working with Ode Magazine, I created a video further illustrating the importance of the strategy. I think you’ll find it simultaneously liberating and motivational. Am I right?
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I’m quickly approaching the completion my second book: The Savings Solution. While the book is almost all new content, I am revising some of my favorite and relevant blog posts and including them as sidebars. One such sidebar follows. Although adapted from a post I wrote back in December, 2007 it is as relevant to [...]
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When speaking on college campuses I often give student an opportunity to make some money.
You: Seems nice of you.
To get the cash, they must stay after my seminar for a market research study. Since I offer $25 for 30 minutes of their time, nearly the whole audience wants to participate.
You: What do you do then?
I [...]
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I just finished reading 15 most hated fees at CNNMoney.com. Included on their list are many you’ve heard before such as:
baggage fees
termination fees charged by cell phone companies if you cancel before your contract ends.
Neither of those fees bug me, however.
You: Why not?
Because they’re not hidden.
You: Meaning?
I know about them well in advance and choose [...]
After a very successful trip to Annapolis, Maryland speaking at the University of Maryland’s Personal Finance Seminar for Professionals, I returned to an enormous box on my desk.
I approached in cautiously.
You: Did you fear it was a bomb?
Of course not, why?
You: It’s possible.
I think you’re watching too much TV.
You: What does that have to do [...]
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I just saw the article “Earn Tax-Free Income” over at Forbes. It’s a clever topic and the piece actually delivers. While some of the suggestions are not for those without resources (e.g., buy an apartment building), you may find that you already doing others (e.g., using a cash-back credit card). Yet it’s a comprehensive list [...]
My brother sent me a link to On a tight budget? Odds are you’ll spend more. Since the article’s title suggests that trying to micro-manage expenses was a failing strategy, I was intrigued. After all, and as long-time readers know, I like the rule “Major on the major, minor on the minor” Therefore, I [...]
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Apparently, somewhere in the middle of the thousands of pages of health care reform is a new tax on using tanning salons.
You: Do you use tanning salons?
Me?
You: Yes.
You: We clearly haven’t met in person. Imagine something rather white, like a blank sheet of printer paper or an albino.
You: Got it.
I’m slightly whiter.
You: Wow. Really?
Almost, it’s [...]
The folks over at Career Overview recently put together quite a list of 100 personal finance posts. Includes as the top “Smart Habits” post was my article Do Debit Cards Separate You From Your Money Emotionally?
Other good reads include:
Jeremy at Gen X Finance wrote: Your Car is Making You Poor and What You [...]
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Saving for a home or, more precisely, how to save for a home is today’s Q & A.
You: Q & A?
Although Friday comes every week, Friday Q &A comes around only when someone submits a good question AND I have time to answer it. Both happened this week, so here we go. Want to ask [...]
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