If the home you’re living in is harder to afford than when you bought it (either because of a job-loss, lower salary, greater expenses, etc.), you might be considering downsizing. Downsizing seems to be one of those common pieces of advice you hear when you’re trying to save money. It makes sense. Your house is…
This week I am happy to be hosting the Festival of Frugality. With a six week old baby I didn’t have much time to come up with a clever slogan for this week. How about we just call it the Festival of Frugality: Where has the sleep gone edition. There were a bunch of great…
The biggest recession that most of us have ever witnessed is now three years in the rearview mirror. Would you believe me if I told you that two out of every five individuals in the United States live paycheck to paycheck? Well, it’s true and that is actually an improvement from 2008-2009 when 46 percent…
So this week I finally got out on the mountain and got in a little snowboarding. I got a half day in on Tuesday and then went up for a few hours this morning. For how little snow have had this winter the conditions were pretty good. Tonight we had a local Denver #FinCon13 meetup, so…
I have been a member of Credit Sesame for a year now and find it a very useful service for tracking my credit. Credit Sesame recently announced the release of the first free credit monitoring service that compiles data from the largest U.S. credit bureau, Experian. The service tracks a consumers credit activity and sends…
In my round-up last week I mentioned that I was finally going to make it up and go snowboarding. Well there was still a lack of snow so I decided to wait. The resorts in Summit County got up to 11 inches of snow in the last 24 hours so I am definitely heading up either tomorrow…
The numbers are astonishing when it comes to how many Americans are overweight or obese. More than 35 percent of U.S. adults and 17 percent of children between the ages of two and 19 are considered obese. While a majority of this problem is due to low amounts of exercise, the other part stems from…