Consider this image the inspiration for this post.  It’s one of many daily photos and videos that the folks over at failblog.org post to their site.  If your curious, the fail here is that she’s sitting on a chair over the treadmill.  And at the core, they are right.  Just sitting there, she won’t get [...]

When you’ve got bills and debt to pay off, you are constantly feeling like you’re running a personal finance marathon.  Each month is a sprint to the finish to see how much debt you can pay off.  We do it to get to that finish line.  To send that last check (or bill pay payment) [...]

Habit.  It’s a dirty little 5 letter word.  I read somewhere that it only takes 6 times of doing something before it becomes a habit.  Habit is a close relative to addiction, although somewhat easier to change. If you’re like me, you’re a creature of habit.  You like doing things the way you’ve been doing [...]

It would be so very easy to say those words. When our finances crumble a little or crash completely, just say “I quit”! Two simple little words. But, they have a whole set of repercussions. I can’t count the number of times in the last several years, when the weight and toil of digging ourselves [...]

Did you know that you can get Beating Broke delivered directly to your Kindle?  (hint: I wouldn’t be writing this post if you couldn’t.) That’s right!  You can get Beating Broke delivered directly to you Kindle!  For only $0.99 a month, you can have the content of Beating Broke delivered.  There’s a 14 day free [...]

I had intended on posting a wrapup this weekend, but the weather was just too nice and I had way too much outside stuff to try and get done before it turns into a winter wonderland up here. So, you get the wrapup today, a day late, but there none-the-less. Here’s some great articles from [...]

In today’s economy, with today’s prices, coins have become nearly worthless.  We all know that the penny costs more to manufacture than it is “worth”.  When was the last time you paid for anything with a few pennies?  Or with a few nickels?  Heck, even paying for anything with a few quarters is becoming a [...]

Special diets (unlike regular old diets like Nutrisystem, Weight Watchers, or even simpler ones like the Slow Carb Diet) are almost always a result of some sort of food intolerance or disease.  Lactose intolerance requires that the afflicted person refrain from milk and dairy product that contain lactose.  Of course, there are milk and dairy [...]

Are you aware that the company that developed and markets the FICO score has little to no rules as to how it does so?  There’s no oversight into the algorithm that it uses to create your credit score.  There’s no regulation that delineates what factors they should take into account or how heavily they should [...]

The Skinny On: Credit Cards By Jim Randel I’m sure a few of you have heard of this series of books by Jim Randel.  He was kind enough to send a few of them my way for review purposes.  <– That’s my way of disclaiming that I was given these books specifically for review.  My [...]