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Baby, that’s a big emergency fund you’ve got there

In a recent article on her website, Suze Orman discusses a change in her recommended credit card strategy.  This is one of the things I like about Suze Orman – her suggestions change based on the economic situation, and she understands that financial advice varies person to person.  The meat of her article is about [...]

Sell your gold and get rich!

By now, I’m sure everyone has seen the slightly annoying Cash4Gold commercials.  Send in your junky old jewelry now and get a giant wad of cash back!  I can’t say that I recommend this scheme – just plug “Cash4Gold scam” into Google and check out the results.  And of course, there’s this post from Consumerist [...]

Long Overdue Updates

This weekend, I decided it was time to deal with all of the filing and other things that I hadn’t taken care of in months.  I have a sporadic filing system.  Mail comes in.  Junk goes in the recycle bin.  Magazines and interesting catalogs get placed in the magazine rack.  Bills get opened and paid. [...]

Budget Justifications

We’re just about at mid-year in our fiscal year at work, which means it’s time for the mid-year budget review.  As a part of this review, we are looking to see where we have under or overestimated our yearly department budget, and if we need to request new funds, we are required to put together [...]

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me

I got tagged by a new blogger friend, Trevor over at Financial Nut (great title!).  The rules?

Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
Share seven facts about yourself in the post.
Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
Let them know [...]