Family or Marriage • Finances & Money • Frugality
For some of us, we NEED two (or more) incomes to survive. Living on one salary or wage isn't an option, but regardless, I'll say you need to live like you only have one income. If you're stuck deep in debt or you're barely scraping by … [Read more...] about Dual Income? Live Like You Only Have One
Finances & Money • Giveaways • Taxes
Well, I think we had some problems with leaving comments, and I did some rework with some of our spam filtering plugins, but I'm not sure yet if it's fixed. I apologize if you tried to leave a comment and couldn't, but please contact me anytime you … [Read more...] about Winners of TurboTax Deluxe Contest
I know book reviews can be extremely boring, so I'm glad David Bach's PR people asked me to just review one chapter from his newest book "Debt Free For Life: The Finish Rich Plan for Financial Freedom". I was asked to review Chapter 10,The Student … [Read more...] about David Bach on Student Loans [Debt Free for Life]
Ok, I have admitted many times before that I purposely don't advise on taxes or investing on this site for a reason. That reason is because 1) I changed from Accounting to an IT major intentionally and 2) Taxes and Investing are both boring and scary … [Read more...] about Reader Question: Diminishing My Taxable Income
Banking • Debt • Finances & Money • Home
Ok, this was our second attempt at paying off our second mortgage. If you recall, the first attempt resulted in a returned check from the mortgage company, but this time we did it the right way. Just to recap our debt/mortgage/etc. situation for … [Read more...] about And we finally paid off our second mortgage! (9 years early)
Banking • Credit • Debt • Finances & Money • Home
Last week I told you about the mistake I made with trying to pay off our second mortgage. Well, another tip that I learned a few years ago occurred to me that I know some of you have also had to deal with: Sending in extra payments We're on a … [Read more...] about Another Mortgage Tip: Sending Extra Payments
Faith & Spirituality • Family or Marriage • Finances & Money
My online and real-life friend "J Money" from BudgetsAreSexy.com is co-leading a new endeavor that I've written about here before called Love Drop. It's a way for you to contribute to those with a specific need and then watch the action unfold when … [Read more...] about Watch the first Love Drop…and see what J Money really looks like!
Banking • Finances & Money • Home
Here's a quick tip I learned the hard way. As some of you know, we did a dumb thing a little over 6 years ago and both financed 100% of our home purchase and also opted for a 5/1 interest-only loan (for the first 80%), all while we could barely … [Read more...] about Check your mortgage company rules before trying to pay off your loan
