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…
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 Saving and Investing. Click here for more posts on this topic. In high school government class, we had to pick some stocks and follow them for a semester in order to see (kind of) how the stock market worked. I had toread more…
This is, in the words of Sam from Financial Samurai, a whale post. I usually try to break essays like this into two posts, but I think this one works best as a single piece. It was, appropriately enough, inspired by Sam’s own whale post- a guest post over at Untemplater called Quit Your Job and Die Alone, which is about looking honestly at revenue vs profits when making the decision to quit your day jobread more…
It is 5pm on Thursday night. This blog is scheduled to be updated at 5:30pm. One slight problem- I have no idea what I want to write about. There are lots of little thoughts going around my head, but nothing fully formed in to a post. I read all the blogs I read today, commented on a number of them, and yet still, nothing really inspired me. I blame the post-birthday, pre-Christmas doldrums. So, since Iread more…
I haven’t written about Occupy Wall Street here, and honestly this post isn’t actually about Occupy Wall Street, but it is about one of the issues they are trying to talk about, and I want to give them credit. On some level, the Occupy movement has already been a great success because it’s changed the conversations we’re having. This is also inspired by a post by Derek over at Buck$ome Boomer. This is not meantread more…
