I have always marveled at all the things you can do on the Internet. The creativity that people express is absolutely mind boggling and the fact that the majority of it is free never ceases to amaze me. The latest thing that I’ve gotten a lot of entertainment from is Facebook. You know it’s probably a site that is near death when 37 year old

Boston Gal has been profiling various people in her “Money Series” posts for quite awhile now and I’ve been meaning to link over to her category. I love reading about other people’s finances, although lately it seems that it’s more about people’s hardships, which I don’t like nearly as much as reading about people that are thriving. Anyway, she’s got a collection of stories about

My old blogging friend, MadameX has put up a great post about her income and expenses over the last 7 years. She has done an OUTSTANDING job at managing her finances and has reaped the benefits of that with a very impressive amount of saving each year. All this while living in New York, dealing with all life’s curve balls, buying a home etc etc..

I’ve been using Mint.com for over a year now and it seems like a good time to walk through the features and offer up my “likes” and “dislikes”. Let me start out by saying that there is no question I like this application. It’s clean, it works and it’s causing us to watch our finances closer than we ever have before. Why? Well, let’s look

Just a quick note to highlight that we’ve hit the 5 year anniversary of blogging at Everybody Loves Your Money. It has been a long ride and I hope to be blogging in another 5 years. I appreciate all the support from readers in the form of site visits, comments and feedback about the blog. If you have stories that you would like to share

We spent the weekend out at our lake house in the Hood Canal area of Washington state. We had a nice, low key time there and mostly just enjoyed spending time with family. We’ve been trying to keep the costs of going out there low by not heading to the grocery store on every trip out and instead just pulling what we have in the

Nickel over at Five Cent Nickel put up a post today about choosing a mortgage lender. A reader contacted him with the following question: “If bank A offers me a certain APR with roughly $3,000 in closing costs, while bank B offers me a lower APR with roughly $3,000 in closing costs, but bank B is a no name bank, which do I pick? In

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year. It’s been quite a year on the economic front. I hope you have weathered the storms! If you haven’t, may 2010 bring you new prosperity and great opportunities! Merry Christmas!!! On a separate but related note. I just checked outside and, unfortunately, Santa did not leave a new BMW or Lexus

I find this absolutely alarming. Over 60% of students getting free or reduced lunch across the country? WOW! http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=11&sid=227970