The Mint.com personal finance service that took the webs by storm is being picked up by online rival Intuit.  Techcrunch is reporting the price to be $170 Million. I can only imagine that Intuit will be melting the Mint service into it’s line of Quicken software.  Maybe making it an advanced version of the Quicken [...]

It would appear that the saga is far from over.  (If you want the full story, you can read part 1 of My Wife Quit Her Job) Just when you think you can’t handle any more of a challenge, a little more gets thrown on top.  Obviously, God knows we can handle more. Since my [...]

Before you get all excited, this isn’t a story of financial bliss.  Less than 3 months after our second child, a daughter, was born and amid all this turmoil in the economy, my wife quit her job.  Why?  Suffice to say that she was extremely unhappy at the position and didn’t feel that she could [...]

The day I’ve been anxiously awaiting is getting very near!  Sometime next month, I will be paying off the loan on our remaining car loan.  Yippeee!  Really, it’s only about 3 months or so ahead of schedule, but ahead is ahead.  Paying off that loan will eliminate all car payments for us.  When the first [...]

Don’t know what PFBWLC is?  It stands for Personal Finance Blogger Weight Loss Challenge.  A bunch of us PF bloggers got together (challenged by Baker at Man Vs. Debt) and took a challenge to treat our weight the way we treat our debt.  We started 5 weeks ago on June 1st and will conclude on [...]

I was watching my local news when they did a spot on people who were vacationing a little closer to home this holiday season because of the economy or other reasons when one of the people who they interviewed blamed their need for staying closer to having lost money in her 401(k).  Besides the fact [...]

What does being “debt responsible” mean, and how do you do it? Being debt responsible means taking responsibility for your debt and it’s payoff without making excuses or trying to find easy ways out through debt write-off, negotiation with creditors, or bankruptcy.  In a nutshell, if you signed on the dotted line, you must pay [...]

J.D. at Get Rich Slowly has a great review up of a new exhibit at the Epcot center at Disney World, Orlando.   He and his wife went down to Orlando and gave “The Great Piggy Bank Adventure” a test drive. The Great Piggy Bank Adventure features five stations, each of which allows kids to play [...]

I want to share a story with you about work. About working for what you want, so that you can not only get what you want, but pay for it with cash. My roommate in college (one of many) graduated college with no college loans. Not because he had scholarships, but because he paid for [...]

If you read this blog through a feed reader, or just haven’t visited in the last week or so, you likely haven’t seen the new banner that I’ve put up on the right side of the site.  It’s a lovely little banner (designed by me) for a White Paper / Report that I put together.  [...]