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iPhones are often criticized as expensive and ostentatious. Why buy a smart phone when you can make calls from a $10 pay as you go phone? It may seem like a waste of money, but used properly an iPhone can be a powerful tool in your personal finance arsenal. Here is just a small sampling of [...]

On January 18th of this year, I finally decided I was ready to make some New Year’s resolutions. I’ve never really done the resolution thing in the past, and so I wasn’t compelled to do it come December 31 or January 1. But I recognize that goals are good — and so I came up [...]

January!  Time to once again set lofty goals. While glancing through a fitness book (Fit and Well: Core Concepts and Labs in Physical Fitness and Wellness) I noticed a subtitle — Reaching Wellness through lifestyle management.  The section “introduces the general process of behavior change and highlights the decisions and challenges you’ll face at each [...]

Many Americans find themselves in quite the situation financially these days.  Their situation is nothing short of bondage.  They are completely trapped because of years of borrowing money to finance a lifestyle that was unattainable without debt.  They aren’t the only guilty party.  The government has encouraged it and the banking system was more than [...]

During college, I stayed close to campus every summer in order to work. Plus, I liked living on my own. The second summer I stayed, I got a job as a waitress and rented a room in a house to get me by until the new school year, when I would have a free room [...]

Everyone knows that healthy personal finances requires debt reduction. However, paying down debt can become discouraging when you have a great deal of it, from a variety of sources. Paying a little bit extra every month on each of your debts doesn’t seem to make a dent, thanks to high interest charges. Instead, you can [...]

I didn’t always agree with Dave Ramsey because I think some of his recommendations aren’t mathematically efficient. But as I pass my two years mark as a personal finance blogger, I must admit that have a growing appreciation for his school of thought. After all, we are human beings and not robots — so, mathematically [...]

Most people think about financial freedom, or retirement, as a point in time when they can fully cover their living expenses with some sort of passive income. This usually involves saving a significant amount of money so that a small percentage could be safely withdrawn to cover living expenses each year. To many people, this [...]

This is an early edition of my weekly highlights, as I am getting ready to head out for a road trip vacation. Next week, I’ll be featuring a few guest articles from various personal finance bloggers.
Highlights
This week Moolanomy was mentioned in the Examiner.com in P2P Followup: Growing up is hard to do by Barbara Bryn [...]

The key to getting out of debt for good is to have a positive cash flow and stop digging yourself deeper into debt. If you follow my previous step to earn more and spend less, you should have, or are on your way toward a positive cash flow at this point. The third step in [...]