Cut Your Tax Bill
With the Federal deficit and national debt so high, the US government is looking for as many ways to gather money as possible and that will continue into the foreseeable future. Unfortunately, the tax...
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How to Be Penny Wise but Pound Foolish
Have you ever hear the phrase, “Penny wise, pound foolish?” Mom used to use it (among many others!). It means that you are watching your small stuff like a hawk but not taking care...
Look Who Left a Legacy
My Aunt recently sent me a beautiful email full of superb pictures – each with a message at the bottom. Throughout the series of pictures, the message remained the same. When it is our...
Building Memories on a Budget
Dyed in the wool finance experts may scorn the expenditure of money on building memories. After all, they claim, isn’t it better to put that vacation money into your retirement savings – so that...
How to Teach Your Child to Delay Gratification
Before 2008, delaying gratification seemed to be a lost art. Why delay gratification when you can have it all now – after all, you only go around once, right? Since the great recession, (some)...
The Most Important Key to Wealth
How to get rich (preferably fast!) is a topic much debated. Start your own business, add multiple income sources, win the lottery, get the right job in the right field, write a best seller,...
The Help Aging Parent’s Want
You hear a lot about how adult children are wanting (or having) to help out their aging parents. You don’t really hear much about the help that those aging parents really want. I’m a...
Review of: Learn to Earn
Learn to Earn A Beginner’s Guide to the Basics of Investing and Business by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild Summary: Peter Lynch, who grew Fidelity’s Magellon mutual fund from 18 million to 14 billion...
Develop Healthy Family Savings Habits
American families generally focus on the single family unit when developing savings habits and planning for the future. But often savings habits are passed on from one generation to the next and may be...
Junior Achievement Still Teaches Financial Literacy
Teaching kids about money and finances is becoming much more mainstream today than it used to be. Public schools are offering personal finance classes. Numerous websites advocate for financial literacy and various institutions and...
