Category: Budgeting

This article has been updated for the 2023 new car model year. Each year, I enjoy researching and publishing a ranking of the cheapest new cars sold in the …

Ooma Referral Coupon Codes! Update: Ooma stopped running their referral code promotions, so now I recommend that you Purchase Ooma on Amazon, as Amazon typically has the lowest price …

A penny saved is not only a penny earned. In monetary terms, it’s actually about 1.33 pennies earned (if you are in the 25% federal tax bracket). That alone …

I have been running a personal finance blog for over six years now, but I have a dirty little confession: these days, I don’t budget <insert crowd hush and …

This is a long lost post from the 20somethingfinance archives. I wrote it a few years ago, and for whatever reason, it was lost and never published. The dates …

One of the most enlightening and beneficial personal finance exercises one can complete is to calculate your average monthly budget. I say “monthly budget”, but for the purposes of …

A friend approached me the other day with a question, “Hey, do you use the Mint.com app? I think it would be a great way for me, for example, …

I have a love-hate…OK, it’s 99% hate relationship with Comcast and cable TV. I negotiate with Comcast frequently (most recently saving $200 over 6 months) – and that gives …