With the big lottery drawing over, and the winners slowly being announced, there’s some talk about some of the winners remaining anonymous.  Apparently, it’s only an option in certain states, so some have no choice.  But, if you won a major lottery, would you remain anonymous if you had the option? In some ways, at [...]

My family went through the drive through of a local McDonalds recently.  (Ok, it was last night)  We were buying food for ourselves and a couple of friends who had recently gotten home after a couple of weeks away.  They, for obvious reasons, wanted to just relax, and not have to cook, but were too [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard the saying “You can always make more money”, or the one that goes something like “They’re always printing more”. Perhaps you’ve bought into the guru’s advice that if you work extra hard, and save every penny, you can make way more money than you’ve ever dreamed of. If so, there’s a small [...]

If you’ve read any of the more popular personal finance blogs, books, or attended any of the seminars, one of the more pervasive themes is the idea of enough. Heck, I’ve even written about it before.  Just what is enough, or how much is enough.  They’ll tell you that you need to find your “enough”, [...]

First, this is a personal finance blog.  As such, I try very hard to not comment too much on politics and keep them out of my articles.  But, should I?  Do politics have a place in personal finance?  Do our financial beliefs have any bearing on who and how we vote?  Should they? I think [...]

One of the biggest surprises about the whole Suze Orman “Approved Prepaid” Scam/Fiasco, to me, is that Suze Orman is a person who has been a role model, financially, for many people. She has been dispensing her brand of advice for many years, has multiple best-selling books on the subject, and regularly appears on news [...]

I’m a fan of parody video’s that take a financial twist. So, when I found this one the other day, parodying the LMFAO hit, “Sexy and I know it”, I couldn’t help but share it with all of you. Take a listen. The creator claims to be “the best rappin’ 8th grade English teacher on [...]

In the financial sector, there is a term that you have likely heard before.  That term is Float.  I’ll try to define it as it pertains to this article. Float – To use known time delays in processing of financial transactions to allow for extended time to cover cost of transaction. Much like any other [...]

If you’ve been paying any attention to other personal finance blogs over the last week, you’ve heard a good bit about the financial blogger conference that took place in Chicago last weekend. While I don’t work full-time as a blogger, I do make money from blogging, which makes FINCON a professional conference for me. For [...]

Early yesterday morning, I awoke to my wife jumping out of bed.  “Do you smell smoke?” She asked.  Let me tell you, there are few things that will pull you out of that just woke up groggy state than a question like that.  And, sure enough, I did.  A quick check told me that there [...]