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If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Photo Credit: Jekkyl I just found out April is Financial Literacy Month. I decided to make a contribution by checking on the state of affairs of our future. The Washington Post had an article about the lack of basic knowledge U.S. [...]

Photo Credit: Harris Graber My husband and I were able to meet Glblguy from Gather Little by Little for dinner at a local Cuban restaurant. The food was good and the company was great. He was charming and polite. My husband had a good time as well. I did bring my digital camera, but I had [...]

Photo Credit:  babasteve I used some of my emergency fund to help with the moving expenses. Let me explain. I got a job opportunity offered that would give me: A slight raise More flextime Less stress A reason to move to an area with a lower cost of living Sounds good, doesn’t it? The catch was we had to move out [...]

This is a guest post by Green Panda’s husband, Blue Panda. Alex Papadimoulis wrote two articles about online banking security on his Information Technology-related humor blog that struck home with me. The first article was on the deficiencies of the new trend in logging in to online banks, which he calls Wish-It-Was Two-Factor (since it isn’t [...]

Photo Credit: The Consumerist Credit card (and other) debts can grow like weeds. Try to tame the it before debt gets out of control. I’ve many of these lessons from experience. Remember real money (yours) is involved. You have to pay this back and it will be with interest. Cash advances typically have a higher interest [...]