Neighbors Selling Their Condo – Are We Next? + MORE

Welder making boilers for a ship, Combustion Engineering Co., Chattanooga, Tenn. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately on the topic of class, after a recent commenter claimed that the “labor class” simply couldn’t compared to those more educated (never mind that I am both a blue collar worker and college educated)…

Has anyone else noticed the amount of once active blogs in the PF space that are now terribly silent? A few that I regularly visited are thefrugalpath (Justin), brokeassmommy (Jen), pelicanonmoney (Veronica), FeeInTenYears (James) and there are quite a few more. I am wondering what causes a blogger to throw in the towel and let their hard work wither away? I know running a blog takes a lot of time and effort, but it isn’t that bad…

Every Friday my good friend Erin (#Broke Millennial and author of this amazing post on my site) writes a post about a “Frugal Find”. These posts cover ways that she discovers to save money in every day life. In her honor, I thought I would try my hand at Frugal Find Friday, though it will not become a regular series on my site…

  What I had to look at for about 50 miles! I recently drove about 1000 miles through many small towns.  It was quite an adventure, with all the rain and wind I got along the way.  Although it was … Continue reading →The post Fun for Friday: You Drove through a Small Town When… appeared first on Financial Black Sheep…

Life After College: Preparing Your Finances for the Real World
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living.This is definitely not me.
College is hard work. But between studying and attending classes, you probably find time for fun and friends. This is the time for self-discovery, and if your parents offer financial support, college might be your four-year vacation before adulthood…

Good morning Dinks and happy Friday. There is not too much going on in my life right now except this Sunday I am going to another baby shower.  That’s right this weekend is another reminder that I chose my independence over settling down and having a family.
I can’t help but think that my friend is going to be chained to her house with her kid and her husband in less than two months…

You want more money, but saving is hard – especially today. You’re being pulled in a multitude of directions. Everyone has their hand out. With new government regulations touching the health insurance and health care industry, your bank account is going to start feeling even smaller.
It’s demoralizing to check your bank account balance – you have more month than you do money in your account…

The News – What is everyone talking about? 

In the fourth quarter of 2012 the Fed announced they would start their third round of bond buying, QE3.  They have been buying $85 billion worth of bonds out of the market every month since then.

When we increase demand for something, the price usually goes up…

Frugality is just a tool for saving additional money. Almost all of us can find ways to save a bit more more money.  And judging by the savings rates of people in the US, we need to be far more focused on saving money than we currently are.  Below, I have briefly summarized the pros and cons of five different commonly encountered varieties of frugality…

If you have not made a new-year resolution for the current year concerning your personal finances, either you are very rich and have personal financial advisers to guide you and / or invest for you, or you are just getting by from paycheck to paycheck and you have no desire or saving to worry about …

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According to a 2012 study by the Insurance Information Institute, 31 percent of renters had renters insurance. Many renters don’t have insurance because they don’t know what it is and why they need it, or because they think they can’t afford it.
Renters insurance is just as necessary as homeowners insurance, even though you don’t have a lender forcing you to get it…

Happy Friday everyone! It’s been a crazy week for the Frugal Rules home as mainly I will be off next week and away from the blogosphere for most of the week. Thank you, by the way, for those who stepped up and will be guest posting for me next week. It’s always good to know that my blog will be left in good hands even though I’ll be away from it a few days…

There’s an eerie calmness with my finances right now.   Things are going reasonably well, we have no big expenses coming up, and nothing exciting has occurred in awhile.   I’m not exactly sure how to feel about it, but I’m trying to convince myself to just relax and enjoy the summer…

The bucket of many uses!
 
 
Everyone is in for a real treat today as I’m going to talk about my favorite household helper. No, it isn’t a fancy vacuum, food processor, or oven that I can turn on remotely from my driveway. It isn’t an item that I had to save money for months to purchase…

Stacking Benjamins is a new podcast that is dominating the “investing” section on iTunes. I am a contributor to this podcast once a month. My latest segment is on STK 007 (yes, double o 7.)
Check out what they’re saying over on Business Insider.

Hey everyone! If you are stopping by from GRS, thank you. My name is Michelle and I’ve been blogging since August of 2011. You can read all about my life on my About Me page. My extra income posts seem to be popular, so be sure to read those. Last month I made almost $8K in side hustle income…

We bought our condo a little over a year ago for $398.000. When we made the purchase the market was down and our realtor told us she wouldn’t be surprised if the price went up dramatically in the next 6 months. Because we live in a city directly across the river from Manhattan (sometimes called the 6th borough of New York City), housing prices are pretty expensive…

As many of you may know, Google Reader is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. I personally used Google Reader and had put off converting to a new product until the last minute, so I know how you feel. However, Google Reader’s death is upon us and that means you’ll need a new way to get your articles from Money Life and More! After all, you don’t want to miss out on awesome content because it isn’t delivered to you daily anymore, would you?
Best Alternative
The best alternative to Google Reader is to get posts straight to your email inbox…

This is what happens to bad Legos, who think budgets are the be all, end all.
When I officially decided that I wanted to start acting like an adult — I was about 25 at the time — I created an Excel spreadsheet to track my month-to-month spending, because that’s what grown ups do, right? Little did I know that I would come to obsess over the numbers that I had written, my own self-imposed restrictions, eventually causing me to throw my budget system out the window (otherwise known as defenestration)…

 
Another week has gone by and I’m wondering what exactly I did.  My wife and I had a great weekend at the cabin last weekend and we even got to see the swans again.  Also, this week we started a new workout routine.  We used to do 4-5 days of strength and short (30 min or less most of the time) cardio…