Pimp Your Finances

In last week’s Market Share Battle, “Review of Free Online Money Management Tools“, we compared 3 free web-based money management tools: Mint, Wesabe, and Yodlee.  This week, we review 3 more web-based tools for managing your finances: Quicken Online, Geezeo, and Buxfer.
The services are all free, and consolidate information from a variety of sources to give users a [...]

This post marks the first in a new series called “Market Share Battles”.  Every so often, we’ll do a side-by-side comparison of some finance related products, websites, or services.

In this week’s Market Share Battle, we review free web-based money management tools including Mint, Wesabe, and Yodlee.  These products summarize financial data from multiple accounts, and offer helpful features designed [...]

I recently wrote about twenty mistakes that keep you from getting rich.  This week, I’ll take the opposite approach, and write about twenty rules that will make you wealthy. 
Last year, cnnmoney.com published a list of twenty financial rules that never grow old.  Each rule includes a related quote from a famous historical figure.  Here is [...]

Most money books just tell you what you should be doing – which most of us already know, but ignore anyway.
“Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes – and How to Correct Them” is unique in that it examines why we don’t do the things we know we should be doing.  It seeks to improve [...]

Going without teaches you to appreciate what you have, and also motivates you to improve your situation.
In a recent post on kiplinger.com, Erin Burt describes some of the other lessons she has learned from being broke.   Here’s her list and my commentary on each lesson.
1. Know your priorities
When you don’t have enough money, you quickly [...]