When it comes down to setting your budget, saving your money, spending your money, and acting responsibly with money overall, you are your own worst enemy.  You and only you are responsible for keeping your self-made goals.  There are tools that you can use to help yourself, but the only enemy that you need to [...]

Personal finance isn’t all just about the best ways to save money and live frugally.  There are other things to consider; other rules that should be followed.  Some have absolutely nothing to do with saving money.Many of the posts here at Beating Broke deal with saving money, budgeting, and living frugally.  On many occasions I [...]

Well, it’s more like Earth Week at Amazon.  They opened it up today and it’s pretty nice, if you’re trying to do as much as you can to go green.  They’ve got some links on different things that you can do to go green and have a smaller footprint.  They’re not essays, but you might [...]

That title is so going to mess up my template.  Way too long.  But, with all the earthquakes lately, it seems appropriate.  In any case, this is gonna be a rocking wrap-up.  Lots of fun links for y’all this weekend! Money Crush has a $100 Giveaway Consumer Boomer talks taxes and health care Personal Finance [...]

I just saw a press release  article on Spirit Airlines’ decision to begin charging for carry-on luggage.  They justify it by saying that it will allow for cheaper fares by not making customers who don’t want to carry-on luggage subsidize those who do.  The fees, $40 at the gate, $30 in advance, and $20 if [...]

For the past three years, I have participated in the ND Technology Occupations Student Loan Forgiveness program.  The rules were pretty simple.  You had to have a College Degree in a technology related field, and have a job in North Dakota in a technology related field.  If you met the rules and got your application [...]

April, besides having a horrible day for pranks, is National Financial Literacy Month.  It’s been promoted as such since 2000 and was officially recognized by the U.S. Congress in 2003.  Too bad they haven’t improved their own financial literacy since then.  But, I know many of us have.  There are several ways you can improve [...]

I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time, but today’s post from DoughRoller with A Dead Simple Alternative to CD Laddering was the icing on the proverbial cake.  And I think that DoughRoller is right.  Or at least, what DR says is in line with what I’ve been thinking too. Here’s the basics.  A [...]

Another week gone by, another weekly wrap-up! Christian PF talks about the pros and cons of variable annuities Stay at Home Mom CFO gives us the low-down on a terrible new debt collection practice Simple life in France is growing oranges.  She thinks. My Journey to Millions is questioning the Constitutionality of the Health Care [...]

No matter what your point of view on the health care reform bill, there’s a pretty good chance that it will be law for at least a little while.  So, it makes sense to try and digest all the stuff that is in it. I don’t know about you, but I don’t intend to read [...]