Welcome to the 12 Days of Christmas – Personal Finance Style! Over the next two weeks, personal finance bloggers around the Internet will be bringing you the 12 Days of Christmas with a financial twist! We hope you enjoy the series!
On the second day of Christmas, the bloggers brought to me….Two Guaranteed Ways to [...]

Inspired by: Frugal For Life’s 25 Ways I Save Money. Dawn’s original article was posted in September of 2006. Patrick at Cash Money Life and passed along. It seems to be gaining a life of it’s own as a viral question. So, I’m all for running with the other lemmings;

Years ago, I accidentally paid my gas bill FAR in advance by sending them both their regular check, and the check for another utility. Both were cashed by the utility.
That means, that even though I made the check out right, and the name on the check didn’t match the person/business cashing it, the bank [...]

You only lose your virginity once, and here’s the story of my first-time investing,.. in all the glory and horror.

Every year about this time, since I started making a high income (yeah I know, brag, brag,..) I’ve always enjoyed a little year-end bonus that the government bestows.
If you make over $97,500 this year you probably already know what I’m talking about. The Social Security Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) stops taking money [...]