Personal finance

How to Get Your Spouse More Involved in the Family Finances

by Melissa

In many marriages, there is the financial geek who enjoys setting the budget, paying the bills,  and managing the money.  Often the other spouse wants no part of the finances. While this is not always the case, it is true for many marriages. This arrangement may work well for awhile, but over time, the spouse [...]

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In Honor of Financial Literacy Month: Back to Basics

by Miranda

April is National Financial Literacy Month, and that means it’s a great time to reflect on your finances, and think about what we can be doing to improve financial literacy for our children, and for others around us. One of the best places to start when it comes to improving your finances is the basics. [...]

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Contemplating Marriage? Love Is Not All You Need

by Melissa

The Beatles famously sang, “All you need is love, love, love, love is all you need.” So many of us buy into this simplistic belief and think that love conquers all. Many of us rush into marriage and ignore the red flags that are before us, thinking problems will work themselves out after we are [...]

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Should You Buy a Bigger House?

by Melissa

Because home prices and mortgage interest rates currently are so low, if you are in a stable financial position, now might be a good time to enter the home buyers’ market or sell your current house and buy a bigger one. Remember all of the McMansions people built and bought before the housing bubble burst?  [...]

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Do You or Your Spouse Handle the Finances Solely? Why This Might Not be a Good Idea

by Melissa

When a couple gets married, one of the first things that have to decide is who will pay the bills and make financial decisions. Ideally, both people in the relationship would make joint decisions and have open discussions about their finances, but unfortunately, this seems to rarely happen.  Instead, they may talk out large purchases, [...]

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What Would You Do If Your Spouse Died?

by Miranda

There are few things in life as traumatizing as the death of a spouse. Whether your spouse passes suddenly, in an accident, or suffers from a long-standing illness, it’s hard to face life without your companion and partner. And one of the most difficult things to work through is the money. When you lose a [...]

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The Three Best Financial Moves You Can Make for Your Child

by Melissa

My grandmother was a young bride during the Great Depression, and some of the frugality she practiced during that time never left her. When I was young, I routinely saw her washing aluminum foil and plastic bags for reuse. She and my grandfather lived in a trailer park during retirement to minimize their monthly expenses, and [...]

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10 Things Similar About Personal Finance And Running The NYC Marathon

by Glen Craig

It was a little over two years ago that I completed all 26.2 miles of the ING NYC Marathon.  This past weekend over 40,000 people ran the race.  Let me tell you running a marathon is an awesome experience!  There’s a lot of work and pain but it’s all worth it once it’s over. Know what [...]

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Financial Blogger Conference 2011 – Meeting the PF Blogger World and More

by Glen Craig

I woke up at the crack of dawn, if you can call stumbling out of bed, cursing the alarm waking up.  Strike that, it was about an hour before dawn.  At best I had four hours of sleep.  I had an hour to get up, shower, and finish putting my stuff together before I hopped [...]

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My 7 Links – Free From Broke

by Glen Craig

It’s been a while since I took part in a blog meme.  Recently Tom from Canadian Finance Blog nominated me to contribute to a meme called “my 7 links.”  It was created by a site called TripBase (click through that link to see the specifics).  The rules are basically to match an article you’ve published [...]

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