Go check out the brand new Under 30 Honor Roll website.  It is a website dedicated to educating and informing people under 30 about personal finance.  The greatest part about this aggregate website is that the writers are all people under 30 whom have been there and done that.  We’ll make the financial mistakes, [...]

I knew that Parker Brothers was hurting when they kept coming out with every gosh darn version of Monopoly that they could think of.  But this information is very troubling to me.  No matter what version of monopoly you are playing, whether it is knitting-opoly or gator-opoly or whatever, you are using cash to buy [...]

Let me start off by saying that I think that you should ALWAYS pay cash for a vacation.  It is silly to finance a luxury.  You may feel like you deserve a vacation, but they are still a luxury expense.  That being said, I am a huge proponent of living it up when you go [...]

As a twenty-something, I have really never paid attention to long-term disability insurance.  Because I am in the prime years of my life, I have this feeling of invincibility like nothing could happen to me.  I feel great and I work at a desk job.  But lately I started thinking about how one tragic event [...]

I was listening to a radio show the other night where a guy was describing that he went out and bought three properties with zero money down.  Now, he has had some deadbeat renters and he is 3 months behind on the mortgage payments.  He is having a hard time selling the properties and is [...]

This blog article from USA Today talks about a poll that shows that young people in their twenties are most likely to opt for a Roth 401(k) when their employers offer it as a retirement benefit. 
About 14% of the twenty to thirty year old demographic opted to invest their money into a Roth 401(k).  A [...]

My generation has fallen into a huge trap when it comes to our philosophy about higher learning.  We have created a society of young people whom think that having a college degree will automatically make them successful in the marketplace.  Young people will spend anything and everything to get a so-called “prestigious” degree, and most [...]

I love the subject of marriage and money, because money is one of the biggest problems within American marriages today.  Knowing that makes me intrigued by the subject, because I want to be able to help married couples with money someday.  I was thinking the other day about how I am such a money nerd, [...]