The following is a guest post by WilliamPaid.com If you are like many, around the 25th of the month, you start getting a little nervous. Not because time is flying by or you haven’t met your monthly quota at work. No, this gnawing little feeling has to do with that four letter word: Rent. At WilliamPaid.com , we know a thing or two about rent, so here are six ...

photo credit: alanwoo I’ve blogged on numerous occasions how we religiously keep our receipts . They are the foundation of the financial reporting system for our family finances because we use them to track, identify, classify and graph our itemized expenses. We’ve done this for so long and trained ourselves to save every single receipt from every single purchase that we make. I realize that while this works for ...

It’s my turn this week to host the Yakezie Carnival. I’ve mentioned the Yakezie group on several occasions and joined the group back in March of this year. It’s a wonderful group of bloggers who have formed a partnership together and I’ve made many new blogging friends through this group. A few bloggers submitted posts for this carnival. For the majority of blogs I visited their site and highlighted ...

The following is a guest post. Please see the end of the article for the author bio. Discover three ways to quickly reduce your credit card debt. Stop panicking and take back some control of your finances by using these three simple tips. Credit card debt happens very easily even when we are trying to be careful. All it takes is to forget one of two of your credit ...

Here are some favorite reads from this past week. Mrs. Accountability writes that she recently joined a food coop . More Style than Cash shares Ten ( Legal ) Ways to Make Some Extra Cash from Your Home . Bucksome Boomers gives some ideas on how to Update your Interview Wardrobe without Spending a Fortune Personal Finance by The Book writes How Minimum Credit Card Payments Will Keep You ...

This is a guest post from MD of Studenomics – a blog for normal 20-somethings that want to save money and enjoy life. You know the deal. If you enjoy this post, please subscribe to the feed for more! I recently wrote about the flip side of frugality . I got some negative responses (as expected) and surprisingly I also received some positive feedback. Today I’m going to defend ...

Swiping a card to pay for your purchases has its up sides. It’s easy, convenient, fast, and you don’t need to carry cash with you every time you go shopping. But using your credit card does carry the risk of having it stolen. We all tend to believe that credit card theft, identity theft, and misuse of credit cards only happens to somebody else. The reality is that it ...

Photo Credit: Andres Rueda The following article is a guest post, courtesy of Alban. Please see his author bio at the end of the article. There are always going to be warnings about spending on your credit card just to get the reward points, however, if you’re smart about collecting points and responsible in paying off your credit card balance within the interest free days, then there is no ...

Did you know this month is Financial Literacy Month? I know it seems we have a month for everything, but I’m glad there is a month dedicated to increasing financial literacy. You see, I didn’t grow up learning a lot about finances. My family, like so many others, lived paycheck to paycheck. As far as I know, my family never used a budget , because there wasn’t enough money ...

Are you tired of debt? Yes? I am too. So when I was given the opportunity to review Jordan E. Goodman’s new book Master Your Debt: Slash Your Monthly Payments and Become Debt-Free , I took it. An Overview of Master Your Debt Master Your Debt covers a lot of ground in 200 pages.  From how the economy got so bad to a checklist of what you need to ...