Should you Buy Mortgage Life Insurance or Kick it to the Curb?
Tue, 05/22/12 | No Comment

One of the relatively newer insurance products to hit the market is “mortgage life insurance”.
If you’ve bought a home in the past few years, you’ve probably been offered the opportunity to purchase a policy.
And if …

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12 Garage Sale Tips to Increase Traffic & Sales
08/22/11 | 3 Comments
12 Garage Sale Tips to Increase Traffic & Sales

I just wrapped up the second garage sale I’ve ever done.
I made over $200, getting rid of clutter that I had zero use for. I was able to sell the 5 sale items that were …

Emergency Savings: is 6 Months Still Enough?
08/17/11 | 22 Comments
Emergency Savings: is 6 Months Still Enough?

I was perusing unemployment duration data on the BLS website recently (yes, this is what personal finance bloggers do) and noticed that in the month of July, the average duration of unemployment was up to …

Why Our Politics are Broken: Political Ad Money & How to Fix it
08/16/11 | 5 Comments
Why Our Politics are Broken: Political Ad Money & How to Fix it

If this past month has shown us anything, it’s that the U.S. political climate is toxic, cancerous, deceitful, arrogant, and all around dysfunctional.
The result of this lunacy is that our nation’s debt is climbing, our …

Buy a House for the Mortgage Tax Deduction? Not so Fast
08/15/11 | 7 Comments
Buy a House for the Mortgage Tax Deduction? Not so Fast

At some point every single one of us has heard the advice, “Buy a home, so you can get the tax deduction.”
The reality is that this piece of advice being a financially smart move is …

Consumers Need 12-Step Programs Too: My Counseling Session with Mother Earth
08/10/11 | 20 Comments
Consumers Need 12-Step Programs Too: My Counseling Session with Mother Earth

We are all wasteful consumers. I am, and unless you live naked in the woods eating only the nuts and berries you find and walked to your local library to read this post – you …

Virgin Mobile Price Increases by 40%: A Sad Day for Cheap Data Plans
08/3/11 | 9 Comments
Virgin Mobile Price Increases by 40%: A Sad Day for Cheap Data Plans

Is this the day the cheap data plan died?
I had been keeping an eye on the Virgin Mobile Beyond Talk plan for the last year. At a prepaid $25 per month for 300 talk minutes, …


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