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 Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of interest. Better Groceries for Less Cash by Randall Putala has a subtitle that pretty clearly describes what you’ll find inside the covers: 101 Tested and Proven Ways to Save on Food. While organized into chapters, this fairly short book’s main purpose is to simply relate a ... 
Many of us are starting gardens, watching what we eat, and giving organics a try. Others count calories, exercise more, or drink plenty of water to shed pounds and live longer. What ... 
The Money Diaries: The 20-something ex-pat taking on the expense of her own apartment
18 comments — written on March 22nd, 2010 Today is another post in the Money Diaries series, which is based off New York Magazine’s Sex Diaries. We’ve collected stories from real people about their spending habits over seven days, anonymized them, and posted them here. * ... 
Last week, as my lovely wife was waiting in line at the supermarket checkout aisle, I wandered around. I don’t really enjoy waiting around for much of anything. It’s a mixture of impatience, attention deficit, and boredom, but in the time between putting the groceries on the belt and taking our bags to leave, I usually wander around the front ...  By Andrea Dickson
In a consumer world, I am among the least savvy of consumers. I buy stuff on a whim, often without doing my research, and am frequently disappointed in what I end up buying. But every now and again, I find a product or service that is so incredibly awesome, so life-changingly helpful, that I can’t stop ... 
Tracking Your Expenses
Now that you are familiar with how much income money you have coming into your home, it has become time for you to pay attention to the expenses that you have on a monthly basis. You should begin with the regular payments and the fixed payments that you make, such as your rental payment or mortgage payment, insurance ... Sometimes you just need to stop spending money for a few days. Maybe you are already over budget, or close to it, and the month isn’t over. Maybe you have savings goals with attached deadlines, and need to kick a little extra towards one of those goals before the deadline comes and goes. Or maybe you just hate to see ... Iris writes in: I was wondering if you could comment on the debt reduction/elimination ads I keep seeing on tv. Are these companies reputable? Are they doing anything that I can’t do myself? I would hate to pay a huge fee for something I could do myself. I would really like to reduce our debt load so ... 
Now that you know where your money is coming from and where it is going, the next step in this budget creation process is going to be for you to break all of your expenses up into two different categories, separating your fixed expenses from your variable expenses. Fixed Expenses - These are the expenses that tend to stay the ... |
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Ask the Readers: What will You Buy with Your Tax Refund? (Win Turbo Tax Prizes!)
By Linsey Knerl
We’ve already asked whether you look forward to tax time, and people are just now starting to see their refunds (or bills) filtering through their home offices. We want to know what you plan on doing with that refund — if you get one. OR what you believe people should be doing with their refunds. (Now’s ...