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The afterlife; it’s one of mankind’s greatest mysteries. In the world of personal finance, we “crossover” the moment our last mortgage payment is made, and for many folks, what lies on the other side is no less perplexing. Last month I received an interesting question in my inbox from a reader named Susie who was on the verge of crossing over with her last mortgage payment. While many of us dream of the Continue reading 9 Ways to Use Your Money After the Mortgage is Paid Off If you are in the advisory business and make a profit by selling your knowledge and skills, you may benefit from purchasing a professional indemnity insurance policy. If you happen to live in the UK, insurance companies such as Markel Direct UK would be a good place to start with. Professional indemnity insurance will protect you and your business from claims for financial loss or damages due to mistakes or negligence Continue reading Professional Indemnity Insurance Defined If you’re looking to earn the biggest annualized net return on your college investment, studies consistently show that your best bet is via a science- or math-based technical degree. With that in mind, one would assume science or math is the most valuable subject taught in grade school. Not true; it’s English. Especially when you consider that our customers, bosses, and colleagues often gauge our competence and evaluate our work based Continue reading 100 Words On: The Most Valuable Subject Taught In Grade School I don’t know about you, but I find a lot of things in life that often make me stop and just shake my head in pure bewilderment. For example, why do tourists go to the top of tall buildings and then put quarters in telescopes so they can see things on the ground? And I still can’t figure out why Hawaii has Interstate highways. Then there are the audacious prices some folks are Continue reading $12 Million Underwear and Other Strange Finds on Amazon & Ebay With our kids now 12- and 14-years-old, we no longer have to worry about babysitters. To be honest, the Honeybee and I rarely used babysitters at all even when the kids were younger because we were fortunate enough to have two sets of grandparents living relatively nearby who would usually fill in for us. The few times we did hire a babysitter — a very nice teenage girl who lived up the Continue reading How Much Should You Pay the Babysitter? (Well, That Depends.) Most everybody thinks they’re underpaid for what they do. But in reality, there are a handful of select jobs where this claim is especially true. A few years ago I compiled a list of the 10 most underpaid jobs. The provocative list was a collection of occupations that I felt were grossly under-compensated considering their overall contribution to society; jobs like trauma scene clean-up workers and electrical linemen. Since then, I Continue reading 10 Thankless Low-Paying Jobs That People Often Accept Anyway It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe… Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week… So the Honeybee was listening to her iPod the other day when she felt the need to stop and inform me that, “It must be Continue reading Black Coffee: Obscure Insurance & Apple’s Latest Amazing Innovation From a purely financial perspective, there’s no doubt that it’s better to maximize income tax withholding exemptions on your W-4 form because the resulting additional take-home pay can be invested or placed in an interest-bearing savings account. After all, the alternative is to give the government an interest-free loan every year. Even so, I still prefer to get an annual tax refund — mainly because the guaranteed lump sum Continue reading 100 Words On: Why I Don’t Feel Guilty Getting a Yearly Tax Refund By most accounts, there are more than 250,000 words in the English language. Of course, I have my favorites. For example, I’ve always been quite fond of platypus; I smile every time I hear myself say it. For some reason, there happens to be a soft spot in my heart for the word kerfuffle too. And I probably shouldn’t admit this, but I also find myself occasionally thinking of ways to insert words like Continue reading The Best Household CEOs Understand the Power of Saying ‘No’ |
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Black Coffee: My Latest Challenge - Around the Horn in Ten Words or Less
It’s time to sit back, relax and enjoy a little joe…
Welcome to another rousing edition of Black Coffee, your off-beat weekly round-up of what’s been going on in the world of money and personal finance. Here’s what caught my attention over the past week…
Last January I challenged myself to try giving good personal finance advice in a weekly article of 100 words or less. Now I’ve got the urge to
Continue reading Black Coffee: My Latest Challenge – Around the Horn in Ten Words or Less