January, 2010
More Money Needed From Parents
Recession Affecting Schools
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It seems to never end—the streams of money that my children's schools are expecting me to give to them just so they can either go on field trips or buy team shirts. Though I keep avoiding these requests, it never seems to end. I may have ...
Big Bills Slideshow
We’re all very familiar with images on the currency that we exchange every day, featuring the faces of our forefathers and other notable public figures. However, there is other legal tender that is far less common. Some of these notes were produced in commemorative editions, while others earn their rarity as a result of the ...
Pure Horatio Alger on 30% Interest: The History of the Credit Card
How the First Credit Card Came to Be
In America, credit card history isn’t something most people think about. This is because credit, and thus credit cards, seem to be a timeless method of payment. However, the use of plastic payments is, for the most part, a twentieth century luxury. At the dawn of the 20th ...
Seven Years of Earning and Spending
In the comments on my December 2009 net worth post, someone asked about the change in my net worth since 2003 and whether I'd gotten a higher paying job or had changed any of my spending habits to enable my net worth to grow as it did. It prompted me to tackle a project I'd ...
Help a Reader Who Inherited $10,000
Does anyone have advice for Sibyl? She commented on an article reviewing Jane Bryant Quinn’s latest book with a question pertaining to her own finances. Sibyl was kind enough to include many details about her family’s finances.I have some suggestions, but this is always a good opportunity to have readers provide theirs as well.Here is ...
