While we talk about getting rid of debt, finding your dream job, increasing your income, diversifying your investments and buying cars, it’s sometimes important to remember where we’re at in the context of humanity.
The Global Rich List is one such reminder. It simply asks you one thing: how much do you earn per year.
My 70,000$CDN/year? [...]
Devin Reams, over at BusinessBits, writes a nice little piece on improving your credit.
A number of people have their own ideas on what works for establishing credit… this is what’s worked for me. Get a credit card as soon as you can. Start paying off those bills (in full), too. It’s been less than a [...]
I don’t know how many others out there feel the same, but I think I have an aversion to replacing my car. I’ll go out from time to time and look at cars, looking at the monthly payments that I would incur by buying the vehicle, and then a certain thought always hits me:
“If I [...]
As you probably know, I am a big fan of using ING Direct savings accounts because at 2.4% with no fees it is a much better place for things like your emergency fund.
Well, I noticed today while managing my accounts (you can open multiple accounts to segregate your funds) that ING is offering a $13 [...]
Ok, on to another question from our Ask the Wealthy Bloggers post:
I am trying to build my credit history and just recently got my first credit card, a secured one from the bank, so that the information about me would get sent to all the credit reporting agencies.
However, I am getting contradictory responses on what [...]
There’s an interesting (and rather humorous) editorial at The Houston Chronicle that gave me a chuckle:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/rssstory.mpl/business/3235757
I think I shall have to send in a letter with something like this:
Effective May 1, 2005, any compromise of my data will result in a $50 liability for you, the card issuer, owed to me, the card holder.
Cashing the [...]
Following this “how to find / transition into / determine your dream job” thought, Terry Storch recently released his “Dream Job Template“. You can see his results here.
Here’s his explanation, as part of helping his pastoral team (he’s part of one of the larger churches in North America, hence the heavy God-slant to this, though [...]
This is the 100th post here at Wealthy Blogger, so I thought I would start with a thank you for all the readers who have been coming and commenting. As everyone is probably painfully aware, Jeremy and I are not financial professionals, but I hope there was some information in these last 100 posts that [...]
A friend of mine is about to leave his old comfortable job behind, in favour of a step closer to his dream job: being a freelance writer. I’ve had a few emails asking me to elaborate on my transition into this role, which I’ll do at sometime this week, however I wanted to highlight an [...]
The fourth week of the Carnival of Personal Finance is up at http://smartmoneydaily.com/PersonalFinance/Carnival-of-Personal-Finance-Week-4.aspx, and is worth a look. I have been away from the computer for the last while thanks to my vacation, but Jon at Smart Money Daily managed to link to us in spite of my not submitting an article.
