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I realized a few days ago that my sister’s flight will arrive in Los Angeles for my [...]

Think you know everything about 401k and IRAs? I invite you to take the Kiplinger’s Retirement Quiz! After each question, it will instantly tell you whether you got the question right or wrong and then give some information related to the topic.
What I want to talk about though is actually the statistics that [...]

With so many news articles about subprime loan and people being suckered into low teaser rates that ultimately reset, one would think that there wouldn’t be many ads about mortgage products that shouldn’t be sold to the general public in the first place. Today however, I got an ad from ING Direct advertising their [...]

Everyone must be confused with the title because we don’t usually see slacking off and motivation in the same sentence.  Let’s face it, everyone slacks off.  This is a given.  In fact, my boss told me that he slacks off once in a while too.  He mentions solitaire as his favorite computer game to kill [...]

Two more weeks and I’m getting married!  I’ve just been way too busy these days trying to figure everything out!  I can’t begin to imagine what it’s like for my fiancee right now because she is pretty much the lead on all the coordination between everybody!  I anticipate to be even busier for the next [...]

I just saw a commercial from H&R Block about the option of having our tax refund put onto a debit card (actually, they started offering it as an option last year). I’m totally against this because I don’t think it is the best idea to have someone else hold my refund. If anything, [...]

My fiancee is very good at helping us save money because she isn’t afraid to speak up!  Just today, she managed to save us $500 because she spoke up when we were treated unfairly.  The place we picked for our wedding ceremony had a $500 wedding coordination fee and we were told that it was [...]

I bank at Wells Fargo and I couldn’t deposit a check today because there ran out of envelopes at the ATM! Luckily, I didn’t need the money to be in my account but what if I did? Would I have tried to deposit the check without an envelope? What would’ve been my [...]