Eight Things My Hair Taught Me About Personal Finance
I have demanding hair. It’s thick and curly and tends toward frizziness if I don’t beat it into submission. Like many women, I’ve fought a lifelong love/hate battle with my hair. At times I’ve wanted it straighter, shorter, longer, thinner, thicker or (rarely) curlier. As I’ve aged, however, I’ve mellowed toward my hair and realized [...]
Nine Ways to Reduce Fees When you Hire an Attorney
What Do You Call a Bus Full of Lawyers Going Over a Cliff? A Good Start…
America has an interesting love affair with lawyers. On the one hand, television shows about lawyers capture our interest year after year. On the other hand, in daily life I cannot think of any profession that is criticized [...]
The Plain Truth and Your Finances
As the economic decline slides further into uncertainty, we have to take a hard look at our own familial finances and begin to ask some serious questions. It’s time to take off those rose-colored glasses.
First, we all need to understand what we, as individuals, can and cannot control.
We can control how much we earn
If you [...]
Personal Finance Weekend Reading & Newsletters
Weekend reading is a round-up of personal finance and money related stories that caught the eye of our forum members this week:
Buffett: “We had an economic Pearl Harbor hit”
September Madness
Opinion From A Well Run Bank (pdf)
Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership
The Case for Doing Nothing
Main Street’s Rage at [...]
Casual Dress: When It Makes Sense for the Workplace
I’ve written before about dressing and looking your best to succeed in the workplace and life, and I still believe this one hundred percent. However, I overheard an interesting discussion that illustrated the desire for casual dress and how people seem happier when they don’t have to “dress up.”
First, I’ll give you a little [...]
Five Legal Music Sites that Can Save Money
A love of music can be an expensive love. Over the past four decades, I have watched my 8 track tape, vinyl LP and compact disc collections become varying degrees of obsolete. In the case of the eight track tape, I rejoiced in its demise. In the case of the vinyl LP [...]
How to Maintain Your Finances in Difficult Times
When my mother died, I worried a lot about my father. How will he cope? What will he eat? Despite my worrying, I didn’t need to worry much about his finances. His forethought saved his financial life, despite our family’s terrible loss.
Dad always has been a stickler for details. This carries over into his [...]
Pick the Low Hanging Financial Fruit
This weekend I read a book called 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save The Earth by John Javna. As the title indicates, it’s a book about living a greener lifestyle. In the book the author talks about “picking the low hanging fruit” when greening your lifestyle. By “low hanging fruit,” he means those [...]
Fight for Your Right to Line Dry
My mom likes to show my friends an embarrassing picture of me. I’m 3 years old, hanging on to my favorite blanket as it’s drying on the line.
Laundry hanging on the line, drying in the breeze, was a frequent part of my childhood, and probably yours too. I didn’t even think about it. It [...]
The Zen of Giving Away Your Stuff
Here’s something marketers don’t want you to know: Stuff cannot and will not ever make you happy. In fact, stuff can make your life more complicated and miserable than you can possibly imagine.
I learned this lesson a really hard way. I nearly lost everything in Hurricane Katrina.
I say nearly because we didn’t know [...]
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