Savings

Falling Short: Options When You Did Not Save Enough for Your Goal

Setting goals for your savings can be one of the most effective ways to put a “face” to your money and motivate you to put funds away for something specific. For example: I will save $100 a month for 6 months so I can take a summer vacation to the mountains. I need to save [...]

How to Save Money for a House

With the recession putting a damper on the housing market, a lot of people are wondering how to save money for a house so they can get in the game while prices and rates are good.

Spending When Abundant, Saving When Scarce

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I haven’t been able to find it, but I’m almost certain that someone out there has invented a scientific theory for why we use more of something when it’s abundant, and less of it when it’s scarce. Here are two suggestions for dealing with it when it comes to your money.

Savings Can Be the End-Goal

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A lot of people like to set savings goals to make their savings more tangible. But what happens if you don’t have any goals to save for at the moment?

Teach Kids Good Financial Habits with a Piggy Bank

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Christian Treitler shows us how establishing good habits in our kids early on can really pay off. One example is piggy bank “ceremony.”

Really Pay Yourself First: Doing a 180 on Savings

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We’re going to try a little experiment for the next six months with our savings. Read about how what we’re doing is very different from the “traditional” approach.

5 Good Reasons Not To Save Money

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Proposing five instances where it’s better not to save money

5 Important Tasks After a New Baby’s Birth

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We have a date set for the birth of our baby boy! Here are 6 things we’ll take care of immediately after that are often overlooked.

Putting Together Your Personal Profit and Loss Table

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The third component of applying business plans to personal finance–the profit and loss table. See how you can benefit!

Hurricanes and Planning for Financial Disaster

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Hurricanes are both ferocious and unpredictable, much like the financial storms in our lives. Can we learn from nature and be better prepared for our money problems?

5 Reasons to Dump Your Savings Account for a Brokerage

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Here are the top 5 reasons why I keep all of my savings in an investment account, not a savings account. It just makes sense!

Saving More vs. Insuring More

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My readers weighed in – now it’s my turn to analyze the results and chime in on the debate – given the choice, is it better to save more or insure more?

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