More often than not, finding help to run a fundraiser can be an almost impossible task. This can be even more difficult when you need volunteers who will work free.
Unfortunately, most people don't know where to begin when it comes to ensuring ...
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How Your Employer Is Stealing From You
Does anybody remember the Allentown woman who was sentenced to 57 months in prison for stealing $1.6 million from her employer over the course of an entire decade? Believe it or not, many employees misguidedly feel it's really no big deal to raid the ...
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How Forex Brokers Earn Money
The foreign exchange market involves buying and selling different currencies based on whether their value will appreciate or depreciate. This exchange takes place between traders and speculators. Forex is a high-risk market that trades $5 trillion on ...
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100 Words On: Why Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Make You Wealthier
When governments interfere with the free market by raising the minimum wage, prices for everything naturally reset to accommodate that wage; it doesn't matter if the hourly minimum wage is $15, $20, $25 -- or even $1. Think about it; if raising the ...
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The Importance of Knowing When to Change Your Career Path
Capital One recently conducted a national survey and found that more than three quarters (77%) of Americans admitted that at some point in their career, they've taken a job that didn't align with their interests, ambitions or long-term goals. Capital ...
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5 Nuggets of Financial Wisdom from The Thomas Crown Affair
The Thomas Crown Affair is a fun movie that grants the viewer permission to imagine a world where money is not a concern. It transports viewers to a world where private planes, yachts, European luxury cars, tropical excursions, fine art, and mansions ...
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Why It’s Better to Be a Shareholder than an Employee
A common theme on financial blogs is how to retire early and enjoy the financial freedom that goes with it. Living off of dividends, interest, and other forms of passive income requires being a serious investor. Here's my take on becoming a full-time ...
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5 Side Businesses You Can Start from Home
If you're one of the few people who can walk into your work and demand a raise, good for you! Most of us can't do that, but almost everyone wishes they had some more money in their pockets -- especially at the end of the month.
Luckily, there are ...
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If You Can’t Live on $40,000 Per Year, It’s Your Own Fault
Awhile back I described ten common characteristics of debt-free people.
In that article, I specifically asked my readers to consider this question:
"Why is it that there are families out there with household incomes under $40,000 comfortably ...
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The $100,000 Salary Benchmark Is Woefully Overrated
In 2004 my gross annual income crossed the magical $100,000 benchmark for the first time.
Reaching that milestone became a personal goal after graduating with an electrical engineering degree in 1988 and taking my first job at a salary of $31,000. ...
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Which US States Offer the Biggest Bang for Your Buck?
I've always been fascinated by maps. Throw me a map of anyplace and I can be mesmerized for quite a long time. Don't ask me why; it's just how I am.
So I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that the other day I spent almost a half hour poring over ...
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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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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 h ...
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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 b ...
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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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Flexible Spending Accounts Provide Free Money. Why Pass It Up?
The relentless rise of health care costs can really put a strain on your household budget. Even with an insurance plan, health care expenses can add up when you consider most people still have to pay deductibles, copayments and other items not cover ...
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It’s Time Unemployed People Start Working For Free
Okay, not all unemployed people, but definitely some of them. Let me explain.
Last month the U.S. House of Representatives passed another 13-week extension of unemployment benefits on top of the current California maximum of 79 weeks. And just last ...
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