If this is your first time visiting, check out the story behind this blog. Otherwise, please join the others by subscribing to my RSS feed or get updates via email so you don’t miss any personal finance articles!This is developing into a Monday series where I will discuss motivation and inspiration to counter our [...]

This is the last Sunday of the year and I’d just like to say that I will miss the lazy Sundays of 2007!! I’m sure everyone had a lot of fun during the holidays but it’s about time to turn our focus back to our careers and goals for 2008. Hopefully, reading these [...]

Yesterday, I talked about selling losing stocks so we can realize a capital loss to reduce taxes. However, we cannot just sell the stocks and buy them back just to get the tax benefits because it will violate the wash sale rule. This rule prevents us from taking a tax loss on a [...]

Today and tomorrow Next Monday is the last day to sell losing investments because you can deduct taxes from it. In the US, we are taxed on net capital gains for the year, which means that we should sell stocks that we have a capital lost in to offset all the capital gains, minimizing taxes. [...]

How many of us have to work today and feel really bad?  How many of us are complaining that someone we know doesn’t have to work the same time we are grinding away?  Why do we even care what other people have or don’t have to do?
I’m sure this won’t make the rest of us [...]

Christmas is a time of giving and we sure had our Christmas shopping fun today as we bought a bunch of gifts!  While we are busy entering our spending into our budget spreadsheet, check out these fine articles from around the web!

Debthelp urges us to be debt savvy for Christmas!  The title says for a [...]

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Your Hard-Earned Dollar in 2008
So, it is well-known that the U.S. economy has been weak for most, if not all of 2007. The housing market slump continues to [...]

I’m very bummed out because I lost $50 yesterday. I was in the Toronto airport coming back to California when I bought some ice wine for my colleagues in the duty free shop. I contemplated for a long time whether I should make the purchase because the ice wines were pretty expensive but [...]