Christmas is one week away, and you have probably been so busy buying gifts and going to parties that you have not had a chance to sit down and reflect on the past year.  Whether you are celebrating Christmas or any other holiday, this season is all about giving.  Giving gifts and giving of yourself [...]

Shop online, especially if you are buying electronics.  Online retailers have less overhead, more rebate promotions, and Google Checkout will give you $20 off on your first time using Google Checkout with every purchase over $50.  Many retailers offer free shipping this year as well. 
Pay Cash for your gifts.  I’m talking about paying with cold, hard [...]

My wife and I sat down today and mapped out our expenses for the next 6 weeks based on my pay periods.  We figured out which bills needed to be paid during which pay period, and took the remaining amount of money after all the bills were paid and figured out where that money needed [...]

Unfortunately, the holidiays bring out the best and the worst of people.  Scams are most commonly found around the holidays, and consumers need to be educated about what to look out for when going shopping in the stores and online this year.  CNN Money has a good article about which scams to look out for [...]

So, you want to get in on the blogging phenomenon, but you don’t know what to do.  Maybe you have tried managing a blog in the past and it was a failure.  Well, I am not an expert in this field, but I have been doing it long enough to know what works and what [...]

Most of you are aware that there are a growing amount of people in the “blogosphere” that make a full-time income from blogging.  I still feel new when it comes to blogging, because I learn something new every day.  Blogging is the media of the 21st century.  I am convinced that it will dominate information [...]

I had to give a shout-out to my alma mater, the Florida Gator football team, for making it to the national championship game this January 8th in Glendale, Arizona!!!  Say what you will about the imperfect BCS system, but it is all we have right now to determine a champion.  I am a proponent of [...]

I wrote a post about the budgeting envelope system a few months back, and my wife and I have started to implement it now that we have the time, and our income has gone down severely since she started school full-time.  We have started out very well with it so far.  We went to the [...]