Archive for the ‘Personal Finance’ Category

My two cents on Suze Orman and her prepaid card

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Suze Orman needed to upgrade her leather jacket to a flak jacket tonight in a personal finance scrap match with personal finance bloggers over her new self-branded prepaid debit card.  The Approved Card is her own personally-branded prepaid debit card with what appears to be a decent package of tools ...

A surefire way to get your kids asking you questions about money

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

(And no, the answer is not to give $50/week allowance to a six year old!) Last week our minivan's transmission bit the dust.  (Thankfully it bit the dust in our driveway.)  Over the next couple of days my wife and I discussed what to do: whether to fix our car, whether ...

Cutting payments as late as possible: More trouble than it’s worth?

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

My grandfather was an extremely frugal person.  (As I suppose many people who lived through the Great Depression of the 1930s were.)  One of his frugal habits I remember was that he used to walk downtown to pay his bills in full by check, on the day they were due.  ...

Save thousands on dental care just by brushing your teeth correctly

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Most everyone knows that regular brushing and flossing helps to prevent cavities and more expensive restorations.  Ounce of prevention and all that.  There are so many benefits to having a healthy set of teeth that it's difficult to argue against brushing. But here's a different question.  Do you know how to ...