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!After contemplating my options of replacing my current Dell laptop’s dim LCD screen, I went to the [...]

It is always a good idea to do a checkup on the progress we’ve made with our savings and measure that against the savings plan that we make during the beginning of the year. This way, it allows us to make necessary changes if we are falling behind schedule and make sure that we [...]

This is a guest post from Debt Lead, who has a debt consolidation website by Kimberly Credit Counseling.
Are you one of those people that are in way too deep when it comes to debt but just don’t know it yet? Are you one of those people that don’t have enough money to pay the bills [...]

I’m happy to report that my current annualized yield on my investments is +9.99% when the Dow hasn’t even gone back to the break even point this year. It wasn’t long ago (January 16th, 2008 to be exact) when my annualized yield on my investment was -99.79%!
I know it sounds like my whole investment [...]

Being a numbers guy, I was always calculating how much I needed to pay monthly once I bought my dream house. I remember a year ago when my wife and I almost bought a house, I was using my pen and paper to write down all the necessary expenses like property taxes, home owners [...]

We look for all kinds of ways to motivate ourselves, but sometimes all we really need is a little change of environment.  An extra light here, books on the other side of our desks etc can do wonders to our energy level.
One of the things I did lately was change my laptop from a Dell [...]

Between my blog and work, I’m logging a ton of hours on the computer. My eyes are starting to feel really tired these days and as I look into the possible reasons for this, I realized that my laptop’s screen is really dim. I compared my own laptop against my wife’s and the brightness difference [...]

In about 2 weeks, I will be going on my honeymoon with my wife. We’ve decided to go to Japan, a place where I’ve always dreamed of visiting one day. Even though our itinerary is already set, many day to day activities are not finalized yet.
Should we try to be frugal in our [...]