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!Today, I saw a posting from my landlord about a two bedroom apartment up for lease and [...]

Many of us read countless advices about investing, with a vast majority of them recommending low cost index funds for the individual investor. Some of the articles provide a better argument than others, while some don’t give a reason at all. This article illustrates what happened with one of my reader’s investment portfolio so we [...]

In recent years, we have been taught to use metrics such as miles per gallon (MPG) to determine the gas efficiency of a car. Certainly, driving the same gallon of gas on a Toyota Corolla is many times more efficient than that on a BMW X5. However, many of us don’t realize that it might [...]

It would be very much appreciated if everyone can leave a comment and say Happy Birthday to my fiancée since today is the day!
I cannot disclose what today’s plans are yet since part of it is a surprise, but I typically spend much more money in July because her birthday is in the same month.
We [...]

As I mentioned some time ago, my fiancée and I are getting married in February of 2008. After many weeks of searching and qualifying our options, we decided to have a banquet at a resort close to where we live and also started to do budget tracking.
A quick tally of the major expenses of our [...]

Another week has gone by and I am happy to be back from Canada! I had a discussion with my fiancée about our wedding so stay tuned for tomorrow’s post about the newest update.
As always, I want to thank all the comments everyone left last week and I will highlight some of the posts from [...]

I invited Engineer to do a guest post as he helped answer many of my FICO scores on an earlier article. His site, Engineering My Finances, is dedicated to articles on personal finance and his approach to prepare for retirement. Below is his article about Biweekly Mortgage Payments so check out his site and the [...]

A couple weekends ago, I went to Balboa Island for a luncheon with some friends. While I was there, I realized that a very smart person has established a ferry service that lets people and vehicles to cross the island for a couple bucks per trip. Although there are other ways to get on the [...]