2013 National Park Week (April 20-28): Offers Free Admission to 401 National Parks, but Only on Weekdays + MORE

For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here’s why.
Today I’m posting Proverbs 22:9, a great verse about sharing with the poor. From the NIV:

The generous will themselves be blessed, for they share their food with the poor.

Another phrasing from the Contemporary English Version:

The Lord blesses everyone who freely gives food to the poor…

This post is from Corinne Hoener. Corinne is a long-time GRS reader and personal finance geek living in Brooklyn, NY with her partner and two cats. Some reader stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success or failure. These stories feature folks with all levels of financial maturity and income…

Quite a few people emailed me about my recent post where I encouraged people to live for today by actually achieving enough that you go to sleep happy about the productive day you’ve had. The part that seemed to generate the most interest is the translation of enormous projects into individual tasks that can be accomplished as part of a checklist…

It’s almost summer over here in south Florida, I can’t believe it’s so hot here. Just a couple of weeks back I had to wear a sweater while coming back from a late night party. Nonetheless our garden is enjoying the weather. The seeds I sowed early March was not growing much beyond tiny seedlings till beginning of April…

2013 National Park Week
I’m a day late, but yesterday was the start of the U.S. National Park Service’s “National Park Week“.
I highlight this every year because the U.S. national parks could be the best idea this country ever had.
And… it coincides with Earth Day (tomorrow)…

Most of us would be considered middle-class — not below the poverty line, but not making six-digit salaries, either. But if we stop and think about it, each of us knows at least someone we’d consider rich; and, if we’re honest, we’re at least slightly jealous of them. Because we don’t want to think less of ourselves for being middle-class, we often write them off as one of the following stereotypes:

Their wealth was inherited; they have no self-initiative…

The Boston attacks are a stark reminder of how much hatred there still is for America. Sadness has turned to anger as the country pulls together to understand why and move forward. It’s been more than a decade since 9/11 and yet I still think about what happened all the time after being on the top floor of WTC 2 for a conference just months before…