Archive for the ‘Basics’ Category

Back to Basics: Keep on top of your income streams

Saturday, November 8th, 2008

If you're like me, you have a job, and you also may have money invested and in savings.  Your investments may have lost some, or a lot, of their value over the past months. But you are still making money, hopefully.  Having a job or a source of income is ...

Back to Basics: Start doing the little money-saving things again

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

I'll admit that when I get a little bit of breathing room in our budget, I get lazy.  I'll go out with friends to lunch, or head to the vending machine for a snack.  I don't plan finances as much as I should.  And it costs me more than if ...

Back to Basics: Downsize

Friday, October 24th, 2008

(By the way, NCN has a new podcast out after taking a break for a few months.  He talks about staying true to the basics in this one.) In times of plenty it's natural to want to enjoy more of what life has to offer.  When people feel rich, they feel ...

Back to Basics: Plan, plan, plan

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

At the beginning of this series, I mentioned that part of the reason for the series was to remind myself of the basics of wise personal finance.  The risk in doing that was that I would run across one (or more) of the basics that I was utterly incompetent in, ...