The Importance of Finding Daily Solitude + MORE

The most valuable lesson I learned in music school was that the best work gets done when you are alone in a practice room.
Solitude.
Solitude is not as easy to come by these days with TV, the internet, smart phones, and other gadgets serving a huge role in our life.  Those things can find their way into our once-empty practice rooms and disrupt our creativity…

Recent criticism of ICT learning in the UK has seen the decision to remove a fixed national curriculum, with a Computer Science GCSE set to be introduced from 2014. Much of this criticism has been made of the ways in which ICT is not best preparing children for future opportunities in the digital industry, with …

Where Do You Want to Go?This topic has been floating around in my head for several weeks now, based mostly on some conversations I have had with a few recent grads. In those conversations a few of the grads posed the question of whether their college degree was “worth it” or whether they would have been better off focusing on their career during that time…

Good morning Dinks.  It’s time for the second post in our blogging as a full time business series.  We hoped you enjoyed the first post by Andrea.  We want to help you take your blogging to the next level and make your blog your full time business.
Today’s post is courtesy of Todd Tresidder, the financial mentor…

This is a guest article by Daniel.  If you are interested in contributing to Debt RoundUp, please follow our guidelines.  This is a long post folks, so sit back and enjoy.
The biggest and most outdated social convention we all face and dread is not a gawkily sung ‘Happy Birthday’ to the new guy at the office, nor is it having dinner with your spouse’s parents…

What’s Your Favorite Type of Vacation?
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living. 
We talk a lot about vacation here at Club Thrifty for one simple reason: we love going on vacation!  It is our very favorite thing to do, and we look forward to our trips all year long.  We truly enjoy deciding where to go and doing all of the planning that is involved…

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If you don’t know much about me, here’s a brief introduction. I’m Jordann, Michelle’s staff writer. I blog over at My Alternate Life about personal finance and the plight of millennials.  I’m in the process of paying off almost $38,000 in debt, and because of this, I’ve slashed all of my expenses almost to the bone…

Happy Back Into Debt Day!  Yes, I made it up.  I had such a horrible day yesterday I thought I would give it a name.  After expletive language and other horrible names, I thought I would stick with “Back into Debt” day. … Continue reading →The post Happy Back into Debt Day (*Sarcasm) appeared first on Financial Black Sheep…

In 1997, Titanic was a runaway smash hit that was nominated for 14 Academy Awards and won 11. The fictionalized account of a few characters on the doomed Titanic ship sent people in droves to the theater.
While the movie contains both a fictionalized romance and a non-fiction tragedy, it also has important lessons that we can apply to debt…

At times I may come off as someone who isn’t sympathetic to those who struggle with consumer debts, car payments, or who generally don’t make enough money to cover their lifestyle. This is more of a half-truth than anything, because I’ll let you in on a secret: I used to be one of them…

These last few weeks and months have been an exciting time in the Frugal Rules home. Our youngest, JP, has been slowly learning how to walk. Having a five and three year old already, we’re well aware of what goes on as a child learns to walk. They start out trying to stand, then after mastering that they take the leap to trying to walk…