Consideration provided by Compare the Market One of the reasons that I dislike payday loans so very much is because of the terribly high interest rates that the payday loan companies get away with charging.  Couple that with the high fees, and it doesn’t take a genius to see why most people who know anything [...]

Being a frugaler means making some sacrifices.  We sacrifice in order to save a few bucks.  Sometimes, it becomes a bit of an addiction.  We get a small high off of the act of saving.  While you can certainly have worse addictions, even an addiction to saving can be a bad thing at times. Taking [...]

I was reading a story somewhere where a person was being interviewed about their debt.  In the interview, the person was speaking about how they had this credit card debt and how they just couldn’t get out from under it because of all the interest, fees, and other ways that the credit card company throws [...]

Every few weeks, you see an article that goes into great detail on the costs of having children.  In these articles, they talk about how much it costs to have a child at the hospital, to buy diapers, formula, clothes, and even talk about future costs like sports, cars, and college.  But, if there’s one [...]

That’s right.  Bull.  All these experts go on and on about calculating the opportunity cost of something and adding that in to your cost analysis when deciding whether you should do something yourself, or hire it out.  Heck, even I have used it before.  But, we’ve all taken it way too far. Let me ask [...]

When you think of the 1950s, do you think of an idyllic happy time?  Or do you think of it as an unexciting period in our country’s history?  There have been numerous changes in our society over the last 50+ years.  Many believe these changes have led to an easier and overall better way of [...]

The following is a guest post from Squirrelers, as a part of the 2nd Yakezie Blog Swap. The topic is “What is your best day-to-day money saving tip” Most of us who are personal finance bloggers and/or blog readers are interested in finding ways to save money. Over the years, we have been given advice [...]

Everybody is familiar with the story of Peter Pan, right?  That old tale about the boy who refused to grow up and spent all his time flying around neverland with his friends? Well, you may not realize it, but you probably know a few Peter Pans yourself. I Don’t Want to Grow Up! What makes [...]

Save! Be Frugal! A penny saved is a penny earned. There’s a plethora of maxims meant to encourage us all to save our money for a rainy day. To hoard our excess funds so that we can spend them at a later date and enjoy their usage. But, is saving our money a waste of [...]

When I entered college, I had no debt. Well, I guess I had some as I’d already signed the papers, but hadn’t received the money, for the loans I was going to be using to partially finance my education. When I finally graduated, 7 and a half years later, I had mountains of the stuff. [...]