Back in December, while participating in the Carnival of Financial Goals started by Patrick of CashMoneyLife.com, I gave my 2008 financial resolution. I’m pretty happy about where I’m at with it now. photo credit: Tigr Here was my resolution and how I intended to accomplish it: I will average $1000 per month in alternative income [...]
updating my financial goals, July 2008 is an original article from the website brip blap.
Trinity: Please just listen. I know why you’re here. I know what you’ve been doing… why you hardly sleep, why you live alone, and why night after night, you sit by your computer. You’re looking for him. I know because I was once looking for the same thing. And when I found him, he told [...]
follow the white rabbit to financial freedom is an original article from the website brip blap.
The following guest post is from Andrew Kardon. Andrew is the president and co-founder of JoeShopping.com, a social shopping site dedicated to saving money through coupons, hot deals, price comparisons, product reviews, shopping blogs and more. You know that exercise is good for your health, but a gym membership can be bad for your wallet. [...]
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A pet peeve of mine, for a long time, has been the corporate office “pitch in for a gift” routine. If you aren’t a corporate employee, what happens is that there’s usually one perky busybody in every department who decides to buy a flower basket when co-workers gets sick, or a teddy bear when they [...]
giving gifts in the office is an original article from the website brip blap.
I’ve noticed that I can make a few snap judgments about my family’s life based on our trash output. We are not a particularly “green” family, although I am passionate about environmental issues. Trash output is one are where I definitely talk the talk but walking…not so much. If you take a close look at [...]
what your trash says about you is an original article from the website brip blap.
The following guest post is by Nolan Hoffman. Nolan is the lead writer for onlinebanks.com and also blogs about his financial ups and downs at debtkid.com. Some vacations are no brainers. Rome, a cruise, Las Vegas… all romantic as they get. And, expensive. Other vacations are as cheap as you want to make them. And [...]
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The following post originally appeared as a guest post on Mrs. Micah: Finance for a Freelance Life waaay back in 2007. How can emotions help (or hurt) your finances? Take a simple example: let’s assume there are two kinds of moods, good and bad, and two kinds of financial situations, good and bad. Remember: simplistic. If [...]
emotional finance is an original article from the website brip blap.
Based on a few recent comments on some of my articles about careers (this one, for example), I started wondering about the difference in wealth between college graduates and skilled non-college graduates. A college graduate can usually expect to go into the professional world as a “white-collar” worker, earning substantially more than his non-college graduate [...]
is college worth it? (part 1) is an original article from the website brip blap.
1. Find something you can do well and (at least moderately) enjoy doing.* 2. Do it.** 3. Try to save some of the money you make doing it.*** 4. Repeat steps 2 and 3.**** I think that may be it. What do you think? photo credit: woodleywonderworks * Notice I didn’t use a phrase like [...]
4 quick steps to building wealth is an original article from the website brip blap.
Have you ever bought a lottery ticket? Have you ever used a coupon? Have you ever incurred non-mortgage debt? If you haven’t ever, will you ever, just to try it? Just to see where it takes you? I have some financial behavior that is set in stone. You do, too, I bet. Me? I hate debt [...]
can financial behavior change is an original article from the website brip blap.
The following reader story was submitted by Dr. Graeme Gibson, D.C. You may read more about Dr. Gibson immediately following this post. If you have a story you’d like to share here as a guest post, please contact me. We had “The Talk” This July 2nd my wife and I happily celebrated our 7th wedding [...]
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I’m sure I won’t be the only person to mention this event during the weekend, but I was shocked and saddened to see reports of a death in Long Island at a Wal-Mart Black Friday event. I’m sure others will use this incident to speak about the evils of capitalism and the pitfalls of greed, [...]
black friday death is an original article from the website brip blap.
Selling on eBay is definitely not ‘passive income.‘ My wife and I had a store for several years. We had a friend whose brother lived in Turkey and was able to buy huge amounts of trinkets (jewelry, bracelets, etc.) at wholesale from a Turkish factory, ship it to us and then we’d resell it at [...]
selling on eBay for passive income is an original article from the website brip blap.
The following guest post is from Mr. Money Mustache (check out his blog by the same name, MrMoneyMustache.com). More about him immediately following the article. I have a far-out idea to share with the next generation of the American middle class. Right now, I’m speaking specifically to the young people who are finishing up a [...]
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