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I’m still in the middle of reading Countdown, so you get a reprieve from the boring-ass book posts.  Instead, I’ve got a couple of cool things to share with you.
First, you may recall a while back I was plugging for my brother since he and his fiancé were finalists for a free wedding from Bloomington, […]

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So Chris and I met with a financial planner last night and it was both interesting and informative. The most notable thing I think we learned is that first time homebuyers can help finance their home through their IRA retirement fund.
Typically when you make an early withdraw from an IRA you are subject to […]

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Kind of crazy that we’ve been able to avoid going to the grocery store since last sunday at this point. We’ve managed this primarly through 2 means. The first is great friends like Clint who cooked for us twice last week. The second is through eating out. I know what you […]

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If you live in a city, you should probably invest in a bike. I’m not saying go sans-car…lord knows that my wife and I couldn’t do that. However, having a bike can equal some significant savings in the long term, and a substantial return on investment.
Lets say that you take some form of […]

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I neglected to mention a couple of key items in the previous post. First, our total bill, after coupons, was about $44. So we essentially saved 50% off of our total bill ($22.71). Another thing to remember, is that does not include items that were just on-sale. For example, we got […]

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Growing up my mother’s sunday ritual consisted of clipping coupons. I didn’t realize that for a family of 5, coupons really did make a big difference in the cost of weekly groceries, especially with three growing boys. Since I’ve been out on my own I haven’t really thought much about coupons, after all, […]

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Over on the right, scroll down just a bit, and participate in my poll about retirement accounts and the kinds that you are using. I’m interested to see what others are doing, and if you have thoughts, please, share them with the class.

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If you are like me, and a novice to the retirement planning world, then you probably ask yourself questions like, what exactly is a 401K, IRA, Roth IRA, whats the difference between them, what about a 403b?
I don’t intend to answer all these questions right this moment, but I’ll give you a brief rundown of […]

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There are many important lessons that you can learn from Suze Orman’s Young, Broke, and Fabulous. The one that we are working on putting into practice right now has to do with savings and credit cards.
As I’ve said before, my wife and I do pretty well in terms of financial income and we should […]

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As you may have read before, I made some poor financial decisions when I just got out of college. I had creditors calling me left and right, as my wife noted, to the point that it was embarrassing to answer my phone, and made her think I was seeing someone else. That does […]

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