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!Have you experienced times when being thankful was really hard? I have. I’ve gone through difficult times when it’s hard to think about anybody but myself. One thing [...]

Over the past week I’ve written a series of articles about the most important personal finance habit to develop, spending less than you make. To recap, here are the articles:

How to Develop the Habit of Spending Less Than You Make
51 Painless Money-Saving Tips
A Simple Approach to Budgeting
10 Online Budgeting Tools

The reader response to these [...]

My daughter turned 13 this past week, and we’re celebrating with family today. I look at pictures from just five years ago, and it’s amazing how much she’s grown and matured. And it reminds me of a decision I made at that time to leave a high paying, prestigious job for a lower [...]

Saturday Night at the Movies uses great films to explore some aspect of personal finance. Published Saturdays at 7 PM, get your front row seat by subscribing to The Dough Roller.
My step father was a hard worker. As a child I helped him do a lot of work around the [...]

Money has the unique ability to bring out the best and worst in all of us. And on those occasions when it brings out the worst, particularly between friends or family members, it can devastate a relationship. I’ve seen families torn apart and close friendships come to an end because of disagreements over [...]

This week my colleagues and I in the M-Network are writing about the personal finance implications of owning a car. You’ll find posts on whether to buy a new or used car (@ Paid Twice, @ Gather Little By Little), how many cars to own (@ plonkee money), how to buy a car (@ [...]

Reading through Money Magazine this month (I won a subscription from ChristianPF, a member of the M-Network), I was reminded that I was due for my free annual credit report. Requesting your report is easy. Simply go to www.annualcreditreport.com:

From this site you can request annually a free credit report from each of the [...]

Michelle Singletary writes a weekly column for the Washington Post called The Color of Money. I’ve always enjoyed her writing because I find it to be so practical. Yesterday she wrote an article called, Too Rich To Be Poor-Mouthing, which discussed her readers’ reactions to a couple struggling to save a little extra [...]