This weekend I was looking through the safe that holds all of my most important documents, like family birth certificates, insurance policies and the secret recipe for mom's sauce, when I ran across my Social Security card.
Now I'll wager that, if ...
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5 Tips for Making a Commuter Marriage Work
Most married couples wouldn't dream of living in separate houses, let alone separate states, but this situation is a reality for millions of couples. It doesn't mean they're unhappy. In fact, it has nothing to do with the emotional state of the ...
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Mailbag: What Will Happen to Pensions If Hyperinflation Hits the Dollar?
Hi Len, I've been reading your blog for close to a year now and love it! Do you think traditional pension payments will increase in some way during hyperinflation? While anything can certainly happen in the financial chaos, it seems there would be ...
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How to Get Hired for a New Job Even Though You Have Bad Credit
Finding a job is never easy. And if you've got some scuff marks on your credit history, the task is even more challenging.
Not many employers hire people without first combing through their credit report these days. That's because the report gives ...
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How to Take Environmental Protection to the Next Level
Many communities have made great strides in implementing "Clean Earth" campaigns and promoting green awareness. Neighbors and friends alike have pulled together for recycling drives, litter control, and much more to improve the environment. For some, ...
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How Misplaced Financial Priorities Lead to Lame Excuses
My teenage son Matthew had a bit of a tantrum last week -- okay, actually it was a full-scale meltdown -- after he found out that I wouldn't let him ride his BMX bicycle until he got the brakes repaired.
It turns out his bike brakes broke (try ...
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Are Two Household Incomes Really Better Than One?
Not too long after our first child was born, the Honeybee left her position as a paralegal for a bankruptcy attorney to become a stay-at-home mom. It was a decision that we had both happily agreed to before we were even married. That course of action ...
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How to Leverage the Internet to Earn Extra Income
Do your weekend adventures leave you with little balance to survive the month? Do you always find yourself looking for your calculator whenever an expense stares you in the eye? Then maybe you could start exploring the option of working part time to ...
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My 13-Year-Old Daughter Shares Her Financial Fears
Readers: Today's post was written by my daughter, Nina. -- Len
I’m only 13 and I’m worrying about my future. Not in an academic kind of way, but in a financial one. That's because there are certain things that terrify me about growing up and ...
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What It Really Feels Like to Be a Billionaire
Who doesn't dream about being rich?
I'm certainly not afraid to admit I occasionally wonder how it would feel to be independently wealthy.
The other day I was reading an article on the world's 200 richest people and stumbled upon a couple of ...
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Why Financial Success Often Depends on the Road Not Taken
Decisions, decisions. Like it or not, our lives are defined by them.
It's no secret that a big part of our financial success is based upon the decisions we make in life.
Just ask any person who has jeopardized their financial future by, say, ...
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100 Words On: How to Get an Instant Raise (without Kissing Up)
The official US inflation rate in 2011 was "officially" 3.2 percent, but arguably higher, while the average pay hike was just 2.9 percent. Maybe that's why, when it comes to job complaints, surveys show that employees grouse about their paltry ...
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Is A Career In Medical Billing And Coding Worth It?
Many people have been left guessing as to what profession to get in, especially with all of the turmoil in the jobs sector. Some areas of the job market have seen massive layoffs and shrinking services. In a world becoming more and more ...
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Black Coffee: Indispensable Job Advice for the Employed & Unemployed
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 ...
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Quit Sniveling: How to Make Lots of Money Doing What You Hate
Readers: Nobody has written more guest articles for my blog than my good friend, the inimitable Mr. Credit Card. Today Mr. CC is going to entertain us with another of his always thought-provoking ideas. By the way, Mr. Credit Card has just updated ...
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How Being Absentminded Resulted In A $2750 Year-End Windfall
At least I'm calling it a windfall. Let me explain.
You see, if I leave a twenty dollar bill in a winter jacket only to rediscover it after it has been hanging in the closet for nine months, that's a windfall.
Now I can hear a lot of you out ...
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Why Baseball’s Jayson Werth Is Worth $126 Million (and You’re Not)
This is a guest post from my good friend, Mr. Credit Card, from www.askmrcreditcard.com. For the past three years, his Philadelphia Phillies have been the nemesis of my beloved Los Angeles Dodgers.
I certainly feel we can learn a lot from how ...
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The (Dead)Beat Generation
Should you walk away from your mortgage just because your home depreciated?
So you refinanced. Or bought too much house. You divided the mortgage payments by your income, and decided you could swing something a few percentage points higher than ...
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2009 Drive-By Movie Retrospective: Or How I Earn $4/Month Blogging (And You Can Too!)
Me: Well, Honeybee, thanks to Netflix you and I have watched a lot of movies from the comfort of our living room.
The Honeybee: I've got a question for you, Mr.Financial Genius: Is Netflix paying us for yet another one of your blatant plugs for ...
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What Would YOU Be Willing to Do for a Million Dollars?
Several years ago I wrote a very popular post highlighting the seven deadly sins of personal finance. Of course, one of those seven deadly sins was greed.
Greed often makes people do some really crazy things they wouldn't otherwise ...
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