Archive for the ‘Saving’ Category

Sharing is saving

Sunday, January 2nd, 2011

Yesterday we spent a wonderful New Year's with great friends.  They're the kind of friends that you can enjoy sharing time with, without the need to put on appearances or impress.  It's incredibly relaxing. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that we scored some great Mr. Rebates savings with our ...

Refinance when your house is under water?

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Free Money Finance regularly posts questions that are e-mailed to him by his readers, with the intent of having other readers offer advice.  Recently a reader asked about refinancing a mortgage that is currently under water (meaning that more is owed than the house is currently worth).  Here's the skinny: $225,000 ...

Five bucks a day ain’t enough, my friend!

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, J. Money does, for one.  Not only does he have his own millionaire club with a swanky gold leafy discus logo ... but he's crunched the numbers and he thinks that it can happen on just five bucks a day.  Granted, that's $5 a ...

Sow your wild oats at work

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Cutting costs anywhere that makes sense adds to that budgetary cushion that can be used to pay off debt, add to an emergency fund, save for college, or anything else.  One fairly easy way to do this is to reduce, or eliminate, trips to the vending machines down the hall.  ...