By Philip Brewer Many couples keep their finances partially (or even completely) separate. One big reason is that spending joint money on individual expenses can lead to disputes, and keeping separate accounts can reduce that. There is, however, another reason to keep some amount of personal money: Simplifying budgeting.
Lots of couples merge their finances to some extent.
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Mike Hagan, a bartender and a recent feature in our So You Want My Job Series.
There’s been a trend lately to get back to the old way of doing things, especially when it comes to things we ingest. People are eating organic produce, for example, and some are going as far as planting their own gardens.
Each of us has a unique relationship with money. Some have always used it wisely, have saved, have avoided debt. Others, like me, have struggled. I carried consumer debt for 20 years. I didn’t open my first savings account until I was 36 years old. But now, after just over four years of intense effort, I feel financially secure.
The New York Times had another great article last week, this specific one was “Bringing Order to the Chaos of Notes.” The article discusses the many ways that someone can capture and organize lists, notes, and all the random pieces of paper that can clutter up our lives.
Referenced in the article are:
One Note for PC by Microsoft ($100)
Notebook for Mac by Circus Ponies ($50)
Yojimbo
This is a guest post by Michelle, my wife, via her blog post at BusinessWeek. It is about a wonderful example of how what's better for the planet can also be better for the people.I pedaled into the BusinessWeek mothership this morning on my
three-wheeled rickshaw, a.k.a. one of the deep and true and
I-swoon-over-it-daily loves of my life.
When I look at photos of men from my grandfather’s and even my dad’s generation, I can see a sense of purpose in the eyes of those men. Yet when I look at men today, I often don’t sense that kind of steely focus. Instead, I see dudes who are just sort of drifting along whichever way life pulls them.
I’ve heard a lot of men my age complain of a sense of shiftless.
The thirty-third episode of Freelance Radio, the official FreelanceSwitch podcast, is now available! This episode, the panel (John Brougher, Dickie Adams, Kristen Fischer and Von Glitschka) talks about formal and informal quotes and proposals. Subscriptions to the podcast are available via iTunes and an archive of all podcasts will appear in the podcast section.
I’ve done it before and I’m sure many of you have as well: decided I wanted to completely change my life, from diet to exercise to productivity habits to spending and career and family and more.
I’ve failed in the attempt to do this at least a few times.
I’ve also done it successfully.
Every other Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book.
The second I picked up Oblivious Investing by Mike Piper, I was immediately reminded of Michael Mihalik’s excellent Debt Is Slavery.
The two books have much in common.
Despite all the stuff going on this past month, May sort of dragged by. Kate and I did have two big personal milestones, though. First, I graduated from law school (yeah!). Second, we finished the final edits on The Art of Manliness book that’s due out in November.
A few days ago, I was browsing through Amazon’s software category when I stumbled upon the software best seller list. Intrigued, I took a look. Here’s the top twenty five when I found it (go ahead and check, it’s probably very similar right now):
1. Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 (Windows)
2. QuickBooks Pro 2009 (Windows)
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I’m not the only one who has been thinking about the relationship between money and meaning lately. This is a guest post from CJ at WiseMoneyMatters.com, who is trying to live a rich life even as he works to pay down debt.
“Wealth and riches are not synonymous. Wealth will get you riches, but riches will never make you wealthy.” – Dr. Edwin Louis Cole
I love this quote from Dr.
