A Tentative Personal Finance Blog

1. Ignoring their retirement Every new parent seems to jump into 529 plans before their babies are sleeping through the night. They don’t look at the tradeoffs in their own financial lives, specifically getting themselves out of debt or funding their retirement as higher priorities than college education. Borrowing for school, after all, is […]

The summer wedding season is fast approaching. When you’re invited to more than one wedding in the summer (not to mention a slew of graduation parties), your budget can take a beating. It’s estimated that guests alone will spend $500 to attend one these days (and that figure doesn’t even include plane tickets, according to […]

FMF over at Free Money Finance recently listed some companies that he promotes for free. A lot of other bloggers took this queue to provide their own list of favorite brands and stores, so I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and submit my own list as well! Here are 3 of my favorite […]

Here’s a shocker. I love Walmart. I know it’s almost always on the receiving end of bad press. It ruins neighborhoods. It puts small businesses out of business. It wrecks the balance of trade. It pays its workers poorly and treats them mean. It makes overseas workers into slaves. That’s what the news says. The […]

The following piece is courtesy of Marotta Asset Management and gives their thoughts on creating financial harmony in marriage:
No married couple wants a scandal, even if it is just financial in nature. Money problems can ruin the love affair with your spouse. The work of blending two lives in harmony requires certain basic commitments. Many […]

Graduation is coming up and soon hundreds of thousands of young adults will be released from the confines of high school and into the “real” world. Thinking back, there were many things I wish I’d known as a new graduate that weren’t covered in school. Among those things:

How to use a credit card Generally […]