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 ...

After suffering from debt issues, you may want to start rebuilding your credit as soon as possible. However, you are likely to find a combination of cold shoulders and vultures – some put you down, and some want to bleed you dry. Unfortunately, filing too many (rejected) applications can also have a negative impact on your credit score. Since your bad credit history has proven you to be a ...

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Photo credit: Ken Wilcox. The following post is by guest writer Jacques C. Sprenger. Please see his author bio at the end of the article. Raising a family is not a course offered in college and it should be. Many couples feel financially confused when the first baby arrives. “How can we plan ahead for our children and for us in such a way that everybody’s needs will be ...

As this post is going live, my poor Pacific Standard Time body has been out of bed for a few hours. I’m in Arkansas right now, and I’m headed to the Walmart Shareholders meeting. Walmart flew me and my fellow Walmart Moms out to Bentonville for the meeting and some other business. I’m looking forward to it, as I heard the Shareholders Meetings are a lot of fun! I’ll ...

Aubrey G. Jenkins had a passion for numbers, which he used during his 28-year career in the financial departments at The Dallas Morning News and its broadcast entities, at the time known collectively as A. H. Belo Corp. More

We spent the emergency fund this week. Not the whole thing, but boy did it feel like it! The first expenditure was actually planned. We needed a new timing belt on our van, to the tune of $600+. Big repairs like that hurt, but it’s better than buying a new car, which is the alternative. Then Monday night, my son needed to go to the emergency room for stitches, ...

I was asked to review the book Your Money Ratios: 8 Simple Tools for Financial Security by Charles J. Farrell, J.D., LL.M. I’m also excited to announce that I am offering a giveaway of this book. Would you like a chance to win the giveaway? To enter to win all you have to do is leave a comment below. One winner will be chosen using Random.org and announced here ...

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 ...