money leaks

One of the quickest ways to improve your finances is to reduce your expenses and find more ways to save money. This article is a compilation of various money saving articles that have been published over the years. A few tips are also highlighted from each article. Make sure you follow these links to see [...]

Our 7 years old GE Profile front load washer finally died on Saturday night.  Everything was working fine until the last two loads when it starts to make loud knocking noise during the spin cycle.  At first I thought it was a load balance issue but the noise persists.  The official death was marked by [...]

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 [...]

Sounds a little harsh?  May be. But the truth is 300 millions Americans owe $957 billions in revolving credit debt — that’s $3,190 per person!  What does this have to do with premium channels?  Well, NASCAR has been showing their Cup races on TNT for the past two weeks and it will be on TNT [...]

This is a guest post from Paidtwice of I’ve Paid For This Twice Already…
As his readers most likely know, Pinyo and his wife are expecting a baby. In fact, why you’re seeing this post I wrote for Pinyo is most likely because they’ve had the baby and are off in the hospital or at home [...]

On Friday, I wrote “Discover your money values and financial demons.” The idea was to keep track of every pennies spent in order to learn about your spending habits, priorities, and money leaks. I have never been a big fan of budgeting because it is tedious — as long as I have money to spend [...]

I am still reading Your Money or Your Life by Dominguez and Robin — this book is taking longer than I thought because it is not just a book, but a road map to financial independence. One idea that stuck with me was the step that told you to keep track of every pennies to [...]

I would like to think that I started the movement with Top 10 money wasters, are you guilty?, but I doubt it. So, here are other posts about money wasters, money leaks, unnecessary expenses, or whatever you want to call it.

Gather Little By Little, 7 Things I’ve Given Up to Prune My Expenses
Money, Matter, and [...]