‘Til Death Do You...

The following is a guest post from Matthew Malone, a writer for RothIRA.com , a leading retirement and Roth IRA Resource. Matthew is also a contributing writer to CBS SmartPlanet. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Smartmoney.com, Fortune.com, Forbes.com, and...

The Butterfly Effect...

The Butterfly Effect is the term given to the theory that small, seemingly insignificant actions can have far-reaching effects. The term was first used in the 1960s by Edward Lorenz, while modeling weather patterns. He theorized that the formation of a hurricane could be impacted by...

The Best Way to Pay for...

The following is an excerpt from Securing Your Financial Future: Complete Personal Finance for Beginners courtesy of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. All Rights Reserved. In previous chapters we’ve talked about how to control your spending through budgeting and the importance of...

Internships: Let’s Ge...

The following is reprinted with permission from All Work, No Pay: Finding an Internship, Building Your Resume, Making Connections, and Gaining Job Experience by Lauren Berger, copyright © 2012. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. One of my favorite...

Money is Not the Root o...

For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here’s why . A couple weeks ago I was at a fundraising committee meeting for a charitable organization when the chairman said we were starting the meeting with a word of prayer. As he prayed, he...

How Much to Pay a Babys...

I consider myself to be incredibly lucky that I live just two doors away from my in-laws. In other words, I’m two doors away from free babysitting – most of the time. But when I do need to bring in a neighborhood sitter, I often forget the logistics of payment. Do I pay per...

80-20 Your Investments...

Now that I’ve discussed how to 80-20 your finances , I wanted to tackle the subject of investing and share what I consider to be the few, key steps you need to take to get the most out of what you save and invest.  While many people seem intimidated by investing and don’t know...

Buy When There’s Bloo...

The following is an excerpt from Jackass Investing: Don’t do it. Profit from it. It’s a book that takes “conventional knowledge” on investing and argues that it’s a myth. Perhaps one of the most famous anecdotes related to market timing can be attributed to...

30 Steps to Great Finan...

Are you overwhelmed thinking about all the work required to get your finances in great shape?  Well the good news is that you can do a complete financial overhaul (or if you’re in less dire straits, a tune-up) in 30 simple steps. Yep, that’s it. In 30 steps you can go from a...

Reader Profile: CP...

The following is the latest post in my “Reader Profiles” series. Each post in this series details the financial situation and challenges of an FMF reader. The purpose of this series is to help us all identify with people like us (in similar situations — not all will be,...