Category Archives: Money Management & Personal Finance

It seemed like such a simple question: “How do I get a cashier’s check in a city where I don’t have a bank account?” Our daughter’s car shopping coincided with a family wedding invitation in Texas near her college. My … Continue reading →

    Once you’ve started saving and investing for financial independence, you want to know when you’re actually financially independent. The answer should be straightforward, but it starts out with a simple number and then piles on the fine print. … Continue reading →

If you’re coming here from a search engine or another link, the first part of this post went up the week before. By far the biggest influence on today’s frugal living and financial independence has been Joe Dominguez. Joe worked … Continue reading →

Jeff Rose over at Good Financial Cents is a CFP who sees dozens of older clients. Nearly every week he meets people in their 60s and 70s who tell him “I wish I’d started earlier and saved more.” Recently I heard … Continue reading →

Frugality is hot again. I’ll start this post at the end of the story: during the Great Recession, Americans rediscovered frugality. Only this time, the information had already been archived on the Web and a core of tech-savvy people had … Continue reading →