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7 Steps To Financial Freedom

This is a video of Dave Ramsey presenting his 7 Baby Steps. Following the summary video are 10 more videos with more specific details. If you haven’t heard Dave Ramsey before, you need to subscribe to his podcast. Now. The Baby Steps Intro Budgeting Baby Read More...

10 Things You Can Do To Spend Less Money This Summer

A friend from college recently posted the following on her Facebook status: How do teachers not spend so much money over the summer??? I threw a quick response in my typical list-type style, but then I realized these things might benefit some of my readers Read More...

Transitioning To A Teaching Career And Making Ends Meet

I recently got an email from a reader who found my blog and is looking at moving into the teaching field. This individual has been in the business world for over two decades and has recently been laid off. Last month I was laid off from my position with Read More...

Really Cool Personal Finance ebook

Do you teach economics? I challenge you to use this in your class. Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance On Just One Page Okay, it’s actually a 49-page ebook that explains the one page, but it is well worth a review. It is tragic Read More...

7 Steps To Financial Freedom (And A Drawing)

This is a video of Dave Ramsey presenting his 7 Baby Steps to a live audience in Dallas. I also have a copy of his book The Total Money Makeover to give away to one of my readers from now through the end of January. Here’s how you enter: Leave a comment Read More...

7 Steps To Financial Freedom (And A Drawing For Free Books)

This is a video of Dave Ramsey presenting his 7 Baby Steps to a live audience in Dallas. I also have a copy of his book The Total Money Makeover to give away to one of my readers from now through the end of January. Here’s how you enter: Leave a comment Read More...

18 Again

I saw a great post on The Yellow Board today. The author asks a simple question: This is a little “out there”, but let’s say you could go back in time and and meet yourself when you were 18. You could tell yourself one thing, and zap, you were back to Read More...

So You Got A New Job! Should You Go Out And Buy A Bunch of New Crap?

Just because you have a new job doesn’t mean that you need to spend everything you make. Just because you got your first paycheck doesn’t mean you need to spend it all. The temptation is there. Don’t do it! Listening to Dave Ramsey, I frequently hear Read More...

Life Lesson 3: Avoid Debt

Debt will kill you. The fastest way to waste your income is to pay interest. The fastest way to maximize your income is to earn interest. As long as you have debt (like most of us who graduate from college do), then every penny you spend is borrowed money. Read More...