Month: December 2012
20somethingfinance hits a landmark birthday this Thursday: 5 years! What started out as a twinkle in my eye during the start of my Christmas vacation 5 years ago has …
A friend of mine (and loyal reader), “TC”, sent me an email with an interesting proposition for a new post: review a reader’s finances, give suggestions, and open up …
Does the FDIC Cover Investments too? Most people know that there is a governmental agency called the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or FDIC) that protects bank deposits (or NCUA …
The average U.S. Consumer is now spending over $1,000 per year on holiday gifts, in addition to a few hundred spent on themselves while combing through all of those …
The Great Recession meant a lot of things to a lot of people. For many, unfortunately, it meant some combination of job loss, extensive periods of unemployment, home foreclosure, …
The Self-Massage Tools I Didn’t Know I Needed: My Story It was a normal mid-summer day. I jogged about two miles in to work, did a few sit-ups when …