How I Lost $1,400 Today and Why That’s Okay + MORE

It’s been some time since I’ve opened up a post for general feedback, so I thought I’d do so today.
I generally write about what’s going on with me financially, what I’m thinking about, what I’m interested in and so forth. And in many cases, I believe these topics interest you.
But not always, of course…

All the time I was growing up in the fifties, I never used or heard about floss or electric toothbrushes (they probably weren’t invented yet!). I brushed manually then and for much of my adult life.
When my dentist first started telling me to use dental floss, I adamantly refused, thinking it was the stupidest idea since unsliced bread…

With Kiva Zip, you can now make loans to U.S. based entrepreneurs.The word entrepreneur conjures up a very specific image in our minds: a go-getter type with an excellent idea, a great deal of passion, and access to enormous funds to get their dream off the ground.
Unfortunately, for many would-be entrepreneurs in America and the developing world, it’s the access to money that is the stumbling block between a great idea and a sustainable business…

My friend Kyle Prevost has written fairly extensively in his new book More Money for Beer and Textbooks about how there is a fairly substantial disconnect in today’s labour market between the supply and demand rules that actually dictate how many jobs are open as well as how much those jobs pay, and the career advice we give to our young people in society…

This is part two of my mini-series “websites that help you save money.” Check out part one if you missed it.
Here at Young Adult Money, we love to save money. Whether it’s couponing, finding the best deal on a product or service we need to buy, or entering giveaways to get free stuff, we do what we can to make our money go farther…

Dying to get away, but just can’t break completely free of work? Consider these winning ways to structure a working vacation.
Position:
I’ve gone on record before about the need for a standing desk and how to build one. Getting your work done from a standing position while traveling though is a different story, particularly when a desk and rolling chair are all you find available in your hotel room…

One of the ways that many consumers save money on their purchases is through buying on the Internet. Many items can be found for less online, and that can be good for a consumer’s wallet.
But you don’t have to rely solely on the lower online price for your savings. You can save even more when checking out online if you employ the following strategies:
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For most citizens of the United States, tax season is over. There’s no longer a need to run around gathering documents. You’ll stop seeing television commercials for TurboTax and H&R Block in which each insinuates the other is a deficient company. You can stop thinking about government’s wasteful spending and income redistribution — which always seems to benefit someone other than you — for a year…

A few weeks ago, we asked you about the green habits you already have. We got a lot of solid, tried-and-true green practices and many creative ones, too. This week, in honor of Earth Day — coming up on Monday, April 22! — we want to know what lifestyle changes you want to make to be even more earth friendly…

In case you haven’t been following my attempt to get a new cash rewards credit card you can read about it here.http://solvingthemoneypuzzle.com/2013/03/31/how-to-pick-a-good-rewards-credit-card-when-the-banks-dont-want-you/.  I wanted to switch to a credit card that offered good rewards and a signing bonus…

For most of my adult life – and particularly over the past few years – I’ve written several novels and some partial novels. I’m well aware that they’re not good ones, even as I’m writing them. Instead, I work on them in order to improve my skills at characterization and plot development…

 
 
Is A Catastrophic Insurance Plan Right For You?
In this down economy, it may seem practical to choose a health insurance plan that has the lowest monthly payments. However, plans that have the lowest monthly premiums also typically have the highest deductibles. For some individuals and families, this may be a good option but for others it could lead to a medical and financial disaster…

I’ll tell you: 66,795. In case you were wondering 😉
Doesn’t that seem like WAY more than you would have guessed? I got on this kick yesterday of doing a fun year-long giveaway for you guys (“$1.00 a day which would increase by another one each day for an entire year!) but sadly realized it would bankrupt me…

My life partner’s father died recently, only a couple of weeks after LP had flown down to deal with impending end-of-life issues. Hospice was involved and paperwork needed to be handled.For almost a week he spent up to 16 hours a day slogging through reams of files and bushels of belongings. Bank, insurance and health records were every which way…

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. Were you required to take a personal finance class in high school? I wasn’t. And I’m not in the minority. In fact, only seven states require a personal finance class for graduation, and just nine states require testing student knowledge in personal finance, according to the National Council on Economic Education’s 2007 Survey of the States: Economics and Personal Finance Education in Our Nation’s Schools…

A couple of years ago, my son lamented that he had to “save up my money to get anything, but you and dad just go buy what you want.”
This perception of the way we run our finances served as a wake up call to my husband and me. We realized that we didn’t do enough talking about finances around our son…

I lost $1,418.71 today. The stock market took a plunge, it’s biggest drop in six months. Since then, it’s been going up like crazy. I’ve sure loved the value that’s been added to my portfolio of mutual funds, but lately, it’s been tough for me to justify buying any more shares, knowing that the stock market is at an all time high…