Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
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 “dislikesâ€. 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
Parade has a great article about a family that moved in to their dream home but ultimately sold it, bought a house that was much smaller and half the price, and then donated the difference to charity. One thing that I found interesting about their story is that doing this didn’t hurt their family, rather it actually helped them become closer. It doesn’t sound like
Nickel over at FiveCentNickel has accomplished what I would really like to do. He has paid off his mortgage in about 7.5 years. You can feel the excitement and satisfaction in his writing as he explains how he did it. I’m impressed. We are also paying additional towards our mortgage since it’s really the only debt we have. My goal isn’t quite as aggressive as
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
Free Money Finance is having a March Madness event that is highlighting the best of the best personal finance blog posts. He’s pitting two great articles against each other in a series of games. It’s a great way to check out some quality personal finance articles and broaden your reading list of good PF Bloggers. Go check it out!
If you do any blogging on the Internet, I’m interested to know what blogging platform you use. I’m really interested to hear what type of desktop blogging software you are using in conjunction with WordPress. I’ve been having trouble with Windows Live Writer with WordPress. It only seems to work for a little while after I upgrade to the latest WordPress version. After awhile, it
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