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!Major news on the personal front because Emma received a new job offer!  With the job change, [...]

I’m waiting for a check worth a good amount to be sent to my attention. I’m really not sure why I am setup for checks because I’m always anxious whenever I wait for that check to come every month. Checks are slow, provide almost no visibility of when it will come and inconvenient [...]

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?
Same [...]

 
 
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 analyze. [...]

 
 
Some of us are creative thinkers, especially when it comes to making excuses about saving for our emergency fund.  From the weak economy to falling dollar to the high gas prices, I seem to hear something new every day.  To break the trend of using our creativity to think of excuses, I challenged myself to [...]

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 [...]

The past Thursday marks the first time I met some fellow bloggers face to face! One of the advertising networks hosted a gathering in my part of town in Orange County for all of us to meet and aside from all the free wine, drinks and food in beautiful Newport Beach, I got to [...]

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 remembered [...]