In our million dollar credit limit article, readers asked how I keep organized with 89 credit cards. I introduced the series of my organizational system in my billpay and anti-filing system. As I shared, Microsoft Money is the center of my strategy. Here’s my tips, tricks and troubleshooting for using Microsoft Money Home and Business [...]

Posted February 13, 2008 in Organization | 1 Comment »

We just finished putting together our goals for 2008. Each year after finalizing our goals we put together a new budget for the year. In this series, we’ll take a look at how we budget, how we use it and our budget by category.
How We Create the Budget
We use last years budget as a starting point. [...]

Posted February 12, 2008 in Our budget | 2 Comments »

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner! It’s time to get out the scissors and red construction paper and make some hearts for those special people in your lives.
From celebrating frugally to funding your Roth IRA, you’re sure to find an article you love. We have 95 great articles in this week’s Carnival of Personal Finance. [...]

Posted February 11, 2008 in Carnivals | 29 Comments »

I think during every post I’ve written this winter I’ve had the ability to look out the window and see it snowing. It’s no exception this weekend as it’s still snowing…. on top of the 58 inches we already had this time last week…. on top of the foot of snow we had on Wednesday [...]

Posted February 10, 2008 in Carnivals, Roundups | 3 Comments »

David over at Money Ning is getting married today. He’s giving away $1,500 to celebrate to his readers! Starting March 1 he’ll give away $100 per day for 10 days. If he gets 1,000 subscribers by then he’ll add five more days!
Entering is easy, all you have to do is subscribe to his email feed, [...]

Posted February 9, 2008 in Quick Money | No Comments »