Category: Personal Finance

Over the past few weeks, I have been thinking about my career quite a bit. Perhaps with a few exceptions, I felt that career is a dead concept for many of us. What would prompt me to say such a negative thing? Basically, I dodged a downsizing bullet not too long ago. It’s sad [...]

On Monday, Mrs. Micah wrote about Single Step Personal Finance Challenge and I thought that it was a fantastic idea. Many times, we look at the big picture and find it so overwhelming that we don’t do what we should. For example, running a marathon is out of reach for many of us [...]

To kick off the second year of Moolanomy, I have compiled a list of 7 special offers. I believe that each one of you will find at least one offer that is useful. Please take a minute to review these offers and sign up for the ones that are beneficial for you.
1. eFinPLAN, [...]

This is a guest post by Heather Johnson.
The most valuable lesson I’ve been taught came from my dad –- from the day I was a little girl being bounced on his knee till today when I’m a career woman in my own right, dad has just one piece of advice when it comes to finance [...]

I often hear the notion that we are financially worse off than our parents. It seems that they were doing just fine on one income, while we struggle with our two. There are articles that explore this issue and compare things like mortgage, car, inflation, day care, etc. — but I think these [...]

First of all, I want to thank Pinyo for giving me the opportunity to do a ‘online coupon’ guest feature on his terrific blog. I hope I can bring a unique perspective, along with some online coupons that can save you some money. I am a firm believer that there are certain [...]

Last week, I wrote Introduction To Morningstar Style Box and thought it’s a good idea to start writing more introductory level articles about investing. Over the next few weeks, I am hoping that I could organize my Investing archive into an “Investing for Beginners Series” for your convenience. In this article, I’ll attempt to [...]

Last night, I was pondering the subject of cash flow (essentially how money flow through our hands) and about financial well being. I played around with various visualizations that consist of income, expenses, debt, and assets. What I came up with was the 5 stages of financial health below.
I believe that all of [...]

eFinPLAN is an online financial planning software that I have been using for the past few months. If you are interested in a review, you can check out my eFinPLAN Financial Planning Software Review. Over the next few days, I’ll be doing a review of the resulting financial plan produced by eFinPLAN so [...]

In doing your investment research, you may have come across a Tic-Tac-Toe-like box similar to the one below. This box is called the Morningstar Style Box. This particular one came from Vanguard 500 Index (VFINX) profile on Yahoo! Finance.

What Is a Morningstar Style Box?
Morningstar Style Box is a visual tool created by Morningstar, [...]