Yay! I’m in on the Carnival of Money Stories #56 – disconnect from facebook edition this week hosted by Personal Finance Analyst with the post The money taboo that should stay taboo - talking to others about their finances. There’s a load of really great posts showcased on there – carnivals really ...
Monthly Archives: May 2010
The money taboo that should stay taboo – talking to others about their finances
We all know people who are having financial difficulties. We’d all even like to help those people by giving them some free advice on how to get out of debt or make their paychecks go further. (Oh how we love giving advice!) Some of us actually do help out financially by giving money to our ...
The “High Cost of Raising Children” Myth
I believe that I would never have saved as much as I have or gone as far in my career as I did without having had my kids – single parent or not. I grew up on a farm with 7 brothers and sisters. On a farm, once they get to be a ...
Above and Beyond – who says they don’t like Mondays?
I LOVE Mondays!!! On Monday, I heard word that I won the Best of Money Carnival #51 hosted by Mrs. Micah over at Finance Freelance Life for my story of how retirement hasn’t turned out quite as I expected in the post Is retirement like a beer commercial with white ...
I am “the emotional investor”
While the rest of you were still busy sleeping off your New Years hangover this last January, I was going shopping. Shopping on the stock market, that is. I wrote about it in this post on January 2 - Following (and leading) the Personal Finance Investor Bloggers. My investing strategy ...
The Average Joe Financial Show (and tell)
Warning! Lotsa geeky number stuff and financial flashing ahead! After years of not keeping track of where my money goes, I’ve been tracking again for the last seven months to determine what my retirement (good market) or semi-retirement (bad market) budget will be for the ...
PMS rant: I Hate Frugality
As I’ve been surfing around, looking at other PF blogs, figuring out what I want to write and what I hope others find interesting, I have to say that I’m getting more and more annoyed by the subject of frugality as the means to get to where you want to go. There are ...
