Archive for the ‘Saving’ 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 ...

Low-interest and … slightly less low-interest

Tuesday, May 24th, 2011

This Kiplinger feature on MSN has a number of good ways that we waste money.  Slide 12 of this series (these aren't my favorite ways of presenting things, but I see how it generates more ad impressions for MSN!) has the following suggestion: If you're stashing your cash in a traditional ...

Graduating with a good job lined up? Here’s a tip

Thursday, May 5th, 2011

Are you graduating from college with a great job waiting for you?  If so, congratulations!  Not all of your peers are so fortunate. I went straight to graduate school after college and was a "poor student" for quite a while: another six years after graduating from college.  I quadrupled my salary ...

Two keys to spending financial windfalls wisely

Tuesday, April 19th, 2011

Financial windfalls, planned or otherwise, are almost always welcome additions to the family budget.  (No doubt they're preferable to large unexpected expenses!) Whether those financial windfalls are spent or saved wisely, though, is an entirely different matter.  Fortunately, it's not that difficult to put these windfalls to effective use.  Here are ...