Handling Your Taxes (Cheaply)

I just wanted to send out a quick message regarding a company I just recently discovered (although they’ve been online for a long time) that will let you e-file your federal tax return for free. A friend of mine just filed (I haven’t gotten around to it quite yet) and he had nothing but [...]

Beware of Overconfidence with Rule #4

Based on comments made by customers and readers, sometimes I get the feelings people must think that my wife and I are immune to the financial buffetings of the wind of life.
Ha!
I will offer a small glimpse into our personal financial life with this article. The idea for it came to me last night [...]

ING offers promotional 4.75%

I just wanted to give a notice to customers and readers that ING is offering a promotional savings rate of 4.75% from January 19 to April 15, 2006. (Why did they choose the day taxes are due to end the promotion?)
ING is the bank I personally use for our emergency fund and it comes highly [...]

Budgeting: Invest it and Watch it Grow (Part IV)

This is the fourth and final part of my series on the power of budgeting. In the first article we talked about the cash flow that is freed up when you begin budgeting. The next two parts of the series addressed the first two things you can do with excess cash. You [...]

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