Now we are getting into an area of banking that is fairly pricey, Money Market Accounts.  These are the cool accounts that rich people all seem to have, and they refer to them with all kinds of cool slang that I think they make up just to test me… ANYWAYS
Three Reasons Money Market Bank Accounts are […]

The title says it all, today I want to see what all you awesome readers would do with an extra $100.  To make this interesting, I will do a 500 word review on any blog as a prize for the most creative use of the money (within the scope of Financing Your Family)
 The scenario is […]

When making a financial plan, there is a major key that will above all other things ensure it’s success or failure.  That key is stickiness.  How well will the plan stick with you for the long term?  Here are 5 ways to make your plan sticky.

I know you’re sick of all this penny-pinching savings advice, sick of learning how to use a bank account, sick of Mark lecturing on how saving $10 a week gives you $520 at the end of the year.  If so, you might just love today’s article, a little story about a girl named Jane, who is […]

The wife and I will be going on the road for the next couple of weekends, and I am looking for some people to write a guest post or two so we don’t have another dead weekend at financingyourfamily.com.  I’m looking for someone to write on personal finance, or family issues, and in return, I […]

Managing a checking account is one of the easiest things to do.  Yet so many people just can’t seem to figure it out.  This is fine by me, until someone writes me a bad check.  Then I get mad. 
Once again, I will not endorse any financial over another, and even though I work in the […]

I decided to break the checking account posts up into smaller chunks since they are a larger part of the total scope of banking products (and where I have more expertise).
Once again I do work for a financial institution, and no, they didn’t ask me to write this.  This blog is 100% separate from my work.
There […]

This is from Get Rich Slowly called Strike Point Shopping which is based on a reader-submitted comment.
I promise this is the last grocery article for a little while… 
This tip really goes to the heart of economic theory and a concept called inelastic demand.  Which everyone seemed to know (except me at first) means that when there […]

Trent, over at The Simple Dollar, posted an article recently about how the cheapest place to shop isn’t always the best, and how he shops at specific stores for specific reasons.  You can read the article here.
I confess that I do not shop at the grocery store with the lowest prices on my staple goods. […]

Thanks for coming to the site, right now we are beginning a new series on banking products and when they are appropriate for your financial profile.  Please feel free to contribute your insight and experience to that as well.
A lot of readers were intrigued by Getting to Zero, a post on net worth.
Finally, if you’re […]