Anyone who has known me over the years knows that I usually have a lot of magazines laying around my house. However, this personal finance blogger has made a decision that may surprise many: I am not renewing any of my personal finance magazine subscriptions. I have several reasons for doing this besides eliminating the [...]
Several years ago, I said that I wanted to write a book about personal finance. That idea never really got off the ground, but my vision was to develop a resource that would have individual chapters that would build on each other so a person could go from money dummy to financially savvy. Great vision, [...]
I recently started a new assignment at work, and so far it has been less than exciting. The work is way below my level, and the client has had trouble keeping up with assigning me tasks to fill my time. This has resulted in quite a bit of downtime at work for me recently. So [...]
I spent a good part of this afternoon on the road, so I did something I don’t do very often. I listened to talk radio, specifically the Dave Ramsey radio program. Now, I am not extremely anti-Ramsey like some bloggers. I think Ramsey gives relatively good advice, provided that you understand that the intended audience [...]
One of my favorite personal finance blogs is celebrating its second anniversary today. Two years ago today FiveCentNickel.com had its first blog posting. Since then he has posted 985 articles and received 5,574 reader comments. Quite the accomplishment, indeed. FCN was actually the very first personal finance blog I read, and remains one of my [...]
It isn’t my intention to make my religion part of my personal finance blog, but I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more popularly known as the Mormon Church. One of the topics that has been mentioned on several occasions by the leaders of our church is prudent resource [...]