The Truly Best Jobs In The World + MORE

One of the unfortunate truths is that many people make investing far more complicated than it needs to be.
It’s common to treat investing as a mystery that can only be penetrated by those with special insight and knowledge. However, buying stocks doesn’t have to a complex process.
Just about anyone can learn how to buy stocks with a little time and effort…

When I graduated from the University of Florida, living at home with my parents was not where I expected to find myself. With my degree in industrial engineering, I had envisioned starting a career immediately. But instead, I found myself job-less, stressed out, and mailing lots of resumes. In fact, being jobless and frantically sending out […

Growing your own food can be a very rewarding activity in many ways, from watching the fruits of your labor grow day by day to enjoying the actual fruits (and vegetables!) harvested fresh from your garden. You’ll trim your grocery expenses over time, and if you join a co-op or community garden, you’ll even expand your social circle!
Of course, it may take some time, labor, and upfront costs to get a garden planted and flourishing…

Investing is often considered the best way to get your money to work for you. But if you’re a beginning investor, there are a number of hurdles and a long learning curve that could derail your financial future if you jump into investments without proper planning. That’s why it may make more sense to focus your attention on becoming a maverick money saver before attempting to be a good at investing…

Little late on the net worth update this month. I guess it just kind of slipped my mind. I contemplated not doing one this month, but then I realized that would mess up my archives. I don’t necessarily post these updates for you people. Why would you care what my net worth is anyways? But instead post these so I can go back and see how Girl Ninja and I are progressing over the years…

I have never been one to be an avid yoga enthusiast. While I am more of a runner myself, I understand the benefits of yoga and can appreciate those who are committed to it. I have tried yoga a number of times and I do enjoy it when I have time to attend a class. Aurorae Yoga is a yoga product company that specializes in mats, accessories, clothing and bags to make an individual’s yoga experience the best that it can possibly be…

AT&T is now rolling out a no-contract plan, joining T-Mobile and Sprint. Could it save you money?Probably. “A monthly $70 contract-free plan from T-Mobile, compared with a two-year $100 contract from Verizon, saves you $720 over two years,” The Christian Science Monitor found.But as always, the devil’s in the details…

Senator Elizabeth Warren, the architect of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, introduced a bill in Congress to give student borrowers a break. The premise is that students, whose education is important to the economic growth of the United States, should receive some of the same advantages as banks, who receive preferential treatment in the form of low-interest loans from the Federal Reserve…

Over the course of my career, I’ve gone out on a limb multiple times.

In the summer of 2008, when oil topped $140 barrel and Wall Street banks predicted a “super spike” to $200, I told readers to sell it short. Within five months, oil tanked more than 70 percent.
In August 2009, everyone hated the U…

I’m getting better and better about getting rid of stuff! This whole moving thing has really sparked some fire under me, and I’m throwing away stuff left and right – even stuff I like! 🙂 (Well, not *throwing away*, but selling stuff and donating things to nab those tax write-offs/etc…)
One pile I cannot easily give up, however, is my bookshelves full of finance and business books…

If there’s one thing I’ve learned during the past few years, it’s that all of us – yes all of us – are so much more adaptable than we think.
Growing up, my parents worked extremely hard, and my siblings and I were very fortunate. However, that nice life we knew came to a very abrupt and unsetting end in 2005 when Hurricane Katrina completely devastated my family, my home, and my community…

…and Friday, May 17th, 2013, is National Bike to Work Day. Are you participating? The month (started in 1956) and associated events are put on by the League of American Bicyclist (League) as part of National Bike Month.
It couldn’t be easy to participate in these events. Simply ride your bike…

Five years ago, I wrote an article about the “flexible casserole recipe” that I found in the wonderful book Complete Tightwad Gazette by Amy Dacyczyn.
In my original article, I lauded the flexible recipe as it enabled people to easily fit whatever ingredients were on sale into a simple casserole that would work for dinner…

You want and need income from your portfolio, and you’re not alone. Investors have been on a tear, seeking out bigger-dividend-paying stocks and bidding them up in short order.
When it comes to bigger dividends, real estate investment trusts (REITs) have benefitted from this drive for income. Prices for REITs have been soaring as investors have been seeking out the tax-advantaged dividends paid by them as well as taking advantage of recovering segments of the underlying real estate property assets…

One of the ways that you can grow wealth over time is to invest. Unfortunately, many Americans don’t understand how to get started.
According to a recent survey from NerdWallet Investing, 81% of Americans don’t know that a brokerage account is needed to invest online. (This doesn’t mean that 81% of Americans aren’t investing at all…

Your credit score is something that you should always be aware of since it is the one important number that lenders and creditors use to assess your credit worthiness. It is vital that you take good care of your credit standing because a good credit score can help you when you apply for an account, a loan or mortgage…

Money, sex, power, love, faith and family. What more do you need to live a happy life? I’ve read a number of very uninspiring “Best Jobs” articles by career think tanks and I’ve decided to write my own. I really don’t know what some of these publications are thinking. It’s as if the best jobs on their list are all their top advertisement clients or something…

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. I recently got sick for the first time in almost a decade, and was bed/couch-ridden for a good four days. Since I had some time on my hands, I was able to watch a few documentaries on my Netflix queue. One of those was The Queen of Versailles, a film that will make your jaw drop like an episode of Hoarders…

Here’s an email I recently received from a reader:

I am writing you with a simple example of a goal but also a challenge for suggestions. As a long time reader of FMF I now believe in setting a goal. (Thank you, FMF) This goal is to do something for our 25th wedding anniversary. In June we will celebrate our 23 wedding anniversary…

Is your day overflowing with things that have to get done? Are you always out of time to do them? Are you looking for ways to become more productive, and get more done in less time?
Stop checking emails, Facebook, voice-mail and instant messages every few minutes! It really works.
I am a self-employed website owner and staff writer…

Recently I read an article asking what advice you would give your 23 year old self. (Sorry, I forgot where I read this.) This is a very interesting question because it is a very personal question. It is not a generalized topic like the series I wrote about retirement advice for young folks. Everyone has a different life experience and this kind of question makes you think about what you could have done differently…