As the national average of gas prices drop back to the $3.50 a gallon range, no one seems to worry about the ultra high gas price anymore. It’s vanished from the nightly news, missing from blog articles and forgotten over lunchroom conversations. After all, gas is not $4 a gallon anymore so no problems right? [...]
Now that I decided to roll my 401k into a traditional IRA, the next step is to figure out the company that I should roll the money into. As the funds will likely remain in the same place until I’m past 60 years old, it is a decision that I should carefully [...]
Some of us are creative thinkers, especially when it comes to making excuses about saving for our emergency fund. From the weak economy to the falling dollar to high gas prices, there are new ones every day. To break the trend of using our creativity to think of excuses, I challenged myself to instead think of some [...]
I have seen it time and time again. My dad changing careers because of $50 a month, my friends switching jobs for a better pay and my old classmates telling me they demanded a higher salary or they consider quitting. Let’s face it. Money is an important part of our job and without it, we [...]
Yesterday, I received a notice from the rental car company telling me that I didn’t pay toll on one of the toll booths in Chicago, Illinois. Didn’t pay toll? I would never skip that and I live in Southern California. As my blood started pumping faster and I was beginning to fill with anger, I [...]
Now that I plan to quit my job and pursue my own business, it’s time to look into how I should handle my current 401k account once I leave the company. As I don’t have a huge 401k account balance, the penalty if I don’t do anything will be relatively small but this doesn’t mean [...]
