The very basic essence of stocks is that you buy a “share” of a company in order to own a portion of the company and “share” in it’s successes.  If the company decides to not reinvest it’s profit into itself and instead pay a portion, or all, of that profit to the owners, you get [...]

As I’ve covered before, shortly after my wife quit her job, she joined a couple of her previous coworkers in starting a business of their own.  As anyone who has started a business of their own knows, there are many, many unexpected things that can come up.  With proper planning, many of those things can [...]

Here’s a list of other blogs that are participating in the personal finance realm.  Many of them are Yakezie(Yakezie Top Personal Finance Blogs) as well! No Water in Hell – Punch Debt in the Face Water and Links – Free From Broke Not Just a Drop in the Bucket – American Rivers (one of my [...]

Today is Blog Action Day 2010. What is Blog Action Day? Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking a global discussion and driving collective action. This is the first year that [...]

Building credit is a phrase that you’ll see around the Internet and anywhere most financial experts talk.  It’s basically the act of getting a loan with easily repayable terms, or piggybacking on someones loan, in order to create a positive record on your credit report and thus increasing (building) your credit score. But, for many, [...]

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 [...]

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