Month: April 2020

There are so many great rewards programs out there! It can be tempting to sign up for all of them. We could sign up for all of them – they are free to join, after all! Should we join all of them, no. I can’t tell you how many...

Debt elimination is something that most people would like to do, yet a lot of people have come to believe that they will simply be in debt for the rest of their life. I find this to be a sad state of affairs. The biggest problem with debt is...

I am an affiliate with sweatcoin. When you follow my link to their site and sign up, I am rewarded with Sweatcoin. It costs you nothing to join the program. While my handyman work was slow in the winter, I went online looking for some other ways to earn...

With the global financial crisis looming as the economic shutdown related to COVID-19 continues, I won’t go into much detail about why everyone should have an emergency account. I previously wrote about carrying emergency cash. That is not part of this emergency fund. The emergency fund I am talking...

The concept of a marriage being likened to a board of directors came to me years before I even met my wife. When I was 21, I was voted onto the board of directors of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Laramie, Wyoming. At the time, I was the...

My grandparents had a cool shopping list apparatus similar the one in the picture. I saw my Mom make lists when I lived at home (and she still makes lists!). When I was in college, I heard a wealthy guy give a talk about personal finances and one of...

As I write this post, we are amid the Corona Virus crisis. This challenging time has brought to light the importance of managing emergencies and having emergency funds. It is times like these that test our financial durability. Carrying emergency cash is a part of the financial durability that...

It amazed me how people were panic buying when COVID-19 spread its way around the world. It got me wondering if that many people really have so little food at home. An alarming number of people live paycheck to paycheck. It makes sense that they might do the same...

I love playing the game of Monopoly. One of the things that make a big difference in the game is knowing the rules. It amazes me how often I am playing the game with someone and they don’t know the rules! A common rule that is not commonly known...

Everybody loves a good story! For many people, the story that their money shares with them is like a murder mystery. The common questions are, “Who did it?” and “Where did the money go?” Well, if we have the courage to listen, our money will tell us the story...