Let’s face it.  The current level of personal finance education is staggeringly poor.  Students in our public schools are receiving little, if any, education on how to properly handle their finances.  Most of the parents of those same students are so bad with finances that they are unable to teach their kids anything either.  One [...]

The giveaway for the copies of Money Rules by Jean Chatzky is over, and the winners have been drawn! (drumroll…) The winners are: Hank Coleman! Elisabeth Good! Kay Lynn Akers!   Congratulations to the winners.  They’ve all emailed me back to confirm and to give me their mailing addresses.  The books will be in the [...]

Just a reminder, this is the last week that you can go and sign up to win the Tablet Time LeapPad bundle, or $250 cash!  It’s easy to sign up, in fact, if you already like us on facebook, or follow us on twitter, you already have some of the steps to enter taken care [...]

It’s not every day that we have a giveaway here on Beating Broke, let alone one that’s this good! I’ve teamed up with Measuring Flower who is the coordinator of the Tablet Time giveaways and with Mom With a Dot Com, and Mama Nibbles who are the hosts of this Tablet Time giveaway, and several [...]

What do you get when you mix a group of personal finance bloggers that believe in selflessly helping others with the holiday season that’s all about giving?  One heck of a giveaway, that’s what! A bunch of the Yakezie members (myself included) got together and pooled some money and books together and came up with [...]

UPDATE: The giveaway sign-up period is over, keep an eye out on Consumerism Commentary for a list of all the May Giveaway winners! I’m partnering up with Consumerism Commentary today, as part of their May Giveaway month, to giveaway a Free Amazon Kindle!  It’s today (May 20th, 2011) only, so you’ve got to sign before [...]

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 [...]