Has it really been a year? It is time, once again, for Women’s Money Week. Let me be honest, everything I say in any of these posts applies to men as well as women, but I do think it is important to have events that focus on women and their relationships with money. Why? Because in a lot of ways, men are still seen as the bread winners and financial decision makers. It is less trueread more…
My plans for this past three day weekend were to do nothing. I was very much looking forward to three days of not much. Saturday went exactly according to plan. I had a massage appointment for my shoulder and then C and I took June and Larry to the dog park while Howie stayed home with J (at 13, too many dog park trips will aggravate Howie’s arthritis). Sunday started pretty lazy, too. As C wasread more…
The point of this post is not to argue either for or against healthcare and/or immigration reform. It’s simply a story to remind us of how things interact, and how sometimes things interact in ways we never quite expected. This is the story of an immigrant fromMexicoto theUnited States. He originally came to the country in a not quite legal fashion. (I know absolutely none of the details.) He was not trying to freeload offread more…
Today is Election Day in the United States, where I, and most of my readers, live. Because this will post around the time that most East Coast polls are closing, I have to imagine that if you are actually reading this today, you are looking for a break from election coverage, and that if you are reading this on Wednesday, you are happy to be done with election coverage. With that in mind, I thought itread more…
I had a hard time deciding whether or not to write this, let alone whether or not to post it. This is a POLITICAL post, and so if that will bother you, please feel free to not read it. But I don’t think anyone can argue that politics are outside of the realm of the personal or the financial, so in that sense, this belongs here. What I say here shouldn’t come as a surprise toread more…
Feeling Left Out Do you ever see some piece of marketing and think to yourself- I am not the target audience for that ad, but I should be the target audience for that product? I accept that I am not going to be the target audience for everything. We watched Zombieland that other night, and since we are not fans of zombie movies, we weren’t the target audience for it, and didn’t find it nearly asread more…
Trying to be Responsible My mother is short selling her house. As she was looking at her finances last year, she came to the realization that once she retires at the end of this summer, she would not be able to afford her mortgage payment. Being the responsible person she is, my mother started working almost a year ago with a real estate agent, an attorney, and the banks (she has two banks, one holds theread more…
Here’s the Deal We are loaning my brother $3,000. I can hear all the financial bloggers screaming at their screens this very second “No, don’t do it!” “Never lend money to family!” “That’s a bad, bad idea.” And I suppose for some people, that is true. It’s never been true in my family. Let’s start with the fact that Charles and I would not be where we are today if family had not been willing toread more…
Back in January, I wrote about My Brother’s New Venture. With his permission, I am now going to be writing a few more posts on the topic. Do You Want to Own Your Own Business or Boss People Around? Does this seem like a silly question to you? Do you think to yourself- Of course if I own the business, I’m the boss. If that’s the case, you might want to re-think entrepreneurship. This isread more…
I am very excited to be participating in Women’s Money Week 2012. I am breaking from my usual posting schedule to post everyday this week in support of this project. Today’s post is about Money in Your 20s/30s/40s/50s/Retirement Click here for more posts on this topic. Today’s topic is also known as “Money in Your Life”, and that’s the view I’m going to be talking about. You see, what I want to talk about can happen in anyread more…
