I just saw the new advertisement from Vonage boasting service for $19.99.  VoIP has been an emerging technology for making phone calls across the United States.  This is not a tech blog, but basically it works by using the same type of technology that helps to connect computers with each other on the internet by [...]

Over at Free Money Finance, there is a great article about starting salaries and how annual raises compounded over a long period of time will greatly affect your earning capacity.  However, a true money crasher would be thinking of ways to take the shackles off of their earning potential by creating alternative creative streams of [...]

The people over at Problogger have posted a Job Board that helps connect businesses and blogging entpreneurs with other bloggers.  There are people looking for people to write for their blog, and they are willing to pay fixed incomes and/or share in the revenue from the site.  This is a great opportunity to earn some [...]

In the spirits of the “question of the day” that JLP from All Financial Matters, I am going to start a weekly Top Five Favorites List.  I would like anyone and everyone whom reads this blog to participate in this.  I’m really interested in getting readership involvement, because I learn the most from other people’s [...]

If you have not checked out your local craigslist website on www.craigslist.com, then you need to go do it right now.  The chances of there being a craigslist pertaining to the city you live in or a city near you is VERY high.  Craigslist.com is a classified ads website with literally thousands of ads for [...]

There have been numerous newspaper and magazine articles lately about Generation Next and the things they face and will face as they enter college and the working environment.  I am intrigued by this generation because I am a part of the last half of it.  We are deemed as the technology generation, the ipod generation, [...]

You will hear me harp over and over about consolidating your student loans.  There are several reasons why you need to do it.  For one, it will lock you into a fixed rate for the life of the loan.  Second, you only have to pay one payment per month, rather than several different ones.  Lastly, [...]

Now that the housing market is starting to shift back to a buyer’s market and with the rising popularity of 1-year adjustable rate mortgages, you will start to see more people looking to buy pre-foreclosure and foreclosed properties.  This is a subject that con-artists and late-night “get rich quick” schemes love to talk about.  It [...]

I am still relatively new to the personal financial blogging community, and one thing that I can say is that 9 out of the 10 blogs out there are genuine about wanting to share about our personal financial struggles and successes with the hope of helping each other out.  I hope that those of you that [...]

Today, I was reading an article in USA Today about homeowners that lost a court case contesting the policy language of their homeowner’s policy about storm surge/flood waters regarding the devastation from Hurricane Katrina. The judge upheld the ruling that the policy language is clear about not covering damages caused by storm surge or flood [...]