It’s been a couple of months since I last updated this series.  You can go back and read the preceding 4 parts if you like. (part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4)  The basic summary is this.  One of our cars blew it’s timing belt and royally messed up the inside [...]

I’ve done a bit of work with Printing for Less before, both as an affiliate and as a customer, and they’re good folks to work with.  So, I thought I would pass this coupon along to my readers.  The links are affiliate links, so I will earn something if you purchase through them, but they [...]

It’s been a little while since I last updated you on my wife’s adventures in entrepreneurship.  A long while, in fact.  I think the last update was when they were looking for Business Insurance.  That was almost a year ago, now.  So much has happened in that time!  How will I fit it all in! [...]

After Andrea’s wonderful post on Go Green Method to Save Money: eBooks, and the ensuing conversation that started in the comments, I though it might be nice to share my story in regards to ebooks and ereaders. Where it begins. I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember.  Some of my earliest [...]

The Second Annual Plutus Awards are upon us! What are the Plutus Awards, you might ask?  Well, they are an annual award given out for personal finance services and blogs.  Think of it like an Academy Award for personal finance. The most brilliant part of the whole thing this year is that Beating Broke is [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post on finding a Real Rate of Return for My Lending Club Portfolio, I am unable to invest directly into the loans on Lending Club.  There’s some regulatory issue between Lending Club and my state that makes it that way.  So, I have to purchase my investments through their [...]

Late last week, I participated in the 10th Yakezie Blog Swap. It’s a fun project where a bunch of Yakezie Personal Finance Blogs get together and swap some posts to give our audiences a little bit different perspective with a different voice. This time around my fellow bloggers and I were to share our Best [...]

For the past month or so, I’ve been performing a bit of an experiment.  I’ve been taking 10% of all income from this and my other sites and splitting it between an investment account and my Lending Club portfolio.  The idea, of course, is to see which performs better. In order to do that, I [...]

According to CNNMoney, Wells Fargo will begin testing a program to charge a $3 a month fee for debit cards. Wells Fargo said Tuesday it will start charging a $3 monthly fee for debit card usage to customers in Georgia, New Mexico, Nevada and Oregon beginning Oct. 14. “We regularly review our pricing and take [...]

Swagbucks is running a pretty good bonus on their special offers through the 21st of August.  Here’s the info that I got from them: Swagbucks is always looking for new ways for you to earn Reward Points, and this week they’ve got a promotion designed to help you get your free stuff faster! All this [...]