If you’re new here, subscribe to my RSS feed to easily see all the latest money management tips, tools and resources. Thanks for visiting!There are three faithful friends — an old wife, an old dog, and ready money–Benjamin FranklinOnline savings accounts are a great place to stash your cash. Also called high yield [...]

Did you ever receive a gift card to a store where you never shop? Or have you ever had a gift card to a store that filed for bankruptcy, like Sharper Image? When a retailer files for chapter 7 bankruptcy, gift card holders get in line with every other unsecured creditor. What [...]

In the world of personal finance, payday loans have become the symbol of ultimate financial distress. The payday loan industry suffers from a poor reputation rivaled only by the tobacco industry. Lately, I’ve done a fair amount of research on the economics behind short-term cash advances. In the course of that research, [...]

Recently, I took my son, Gavin, to the CoinStar machine to turn the random coins he’s been getting into cash. Added to the last two years of birthday money, his total was right around $150. As he stared at that money (and lamented the fact that now all he had was paper instead of a [...]

Two of my personal finance blogging friends have recently introduced a new site and Ebook that are absolutely worth checking out. The first is a new site called Personal Finance Buzz, or PF Buzz for short. The second is an Ebook called the College Grad Money Guide.
PF Buzz
PF Buzz was created by a [...]