management lessons

At an early age, it is difficult to teach children about money. Learning comes much more easily when it is fun. Game nights are a family tradition in many households and throwing in one of these board games can combine fun with a little financial education. The board games provide the basic concept for what [...]

Last week, Moolanomy’s Extra Income Guide was featured as part of the 25 most helpful articles written by PF bloggers, and it was also part of the Free Money Finance March Madness, Round 1, Posts 1-4 competition.  Thank you Bob and FMF.  It’s an honor to be included in the list and be part of [...]

My article 10 Tips For College Bound Students, I wrote that college students should start using credit card while they are in college. This generated quite a bit of opposing comments. Specifically, I wrote:

Establish you credit history early. College is a great time to get your own credit card. This way you start your credit [...]

My son is almost a year old, so I am interested in the topic of teaching children about money management. I think teaching them about money can build a solid foundation that will result in a lifetime of financial well being.  I have been reading various articles on this subject and here is my spin [...]

Selling used books is a good way to declutter your home and get some money for books that you probably won’t read again.  This is even more important for college students because you could sell textbooks for a lot more than normal books, but you’ll have to do it quick because textbooks become outdated and [...]

About a week ago, Mrs. Micah wrote What My Parents Did and Didn’t Teach Me About Credit and Money Management and that got me thinking about financial lessons that I learned from my parents.  I can definitely say that I didn’t learn anything about investing, budgeting, or building alternative income streams from my parents.  They [...]

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 [...]

A while back the Money Blog Network asked other bloggers to share what their finances were like 10 years ago. I’d forgotten about this group project until I read one at Can I Get Rich On A Salary who did an amazing job of improving his finances over $1 million in 10 years!
My Finances 10 [...]

Over the weekend, I came across a rather interesting series called The History of Credit and Debt at Myvesta.org. In this carnival, I’ll be sharing short excerpts from the series.
This week carnival is not big, but it’s packed with good articles. In this carnival, I selected 9 articles as the editor’s picks and the first [...]

Hello everyone and welcome to 155th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. Initially, I had a plan to make this a more unique and interesting carnival, but my sister and her family came up from Virginia for a surprised visit. As a result, I opted to spend more time with my family and less [...]