income generation

To help you make the most of your 2009 taxes, here are some tax tips to help you organize, prepare, and take advantage of the available tax deductions and tax credits for 2009 tax year. Instead of trying to compile my own list, I reached out to a few personal finance bloggers to share their [...]

No Debt Plan is about getting and staying out of debt with a plan. Kevin, the author, is passionate about budgeting, saving for the future, and using goals to reach financial freedom. You can subscribe to his blog by RSS or email.

This interview is part of a new feature he’s developed called Subscriber Swap Saturday. [...]

This week, Moolanomy was featured at Being Frugal as blog of the week — thank you Lynnae! It feels good to be loved, even if it’s a link love. And by the way, Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, so I just want to take a minute and wish everyone a happy and wonderful time with your [...]

Prioritizing retirement savings against paying down student loans is a very common money management question for young workers today. This wasn’t the case in prior generations where college graduates start their first job with less student loans and were offered pension as part of their benefits package.

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When I started out, I [...]

On Friday, I received my Social Security Statement and looked closely at it for the first time. Although, I have been getting these statements for years, I have never paid too much attention to them until now. The reason? My mom is turning 65 this year, and I need to figure out her options.

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Before I start the roundup, I just want to share with you two new features on Moolanomy…as well as reacquaint you with some of the older ones.

Personal Finance Directory (new) — I changed the old deals and special offers page into this interactive directory where you can rate and comment on the offers I listed.
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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 to [...]

Welcome to the 10th edition of the Carnival of Snowflaking. If you’re not familiar with the term snowflaking, here’s the definition:
Snowflaking is the concept of using small amounts of savings or earnings above and beyond our normal budget to meet our financial goals. A spinoff of the Ramsey Snowball concept, this can be used for [...]

It’s hard to believe that I have been blogging about personal finance for one full year. Overall, I have to say that it’s a success in many ways. Specifically, I was able to meet the three goals I had set for myself at the beginning:

To learn more about financial concepts and improve my finances
To supplement [...]

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 articles didn’t [...]