Retailers are crafty folks. They know just when to price some items higher for account for more demand and when to cut their losses to sell items at a deep discount. It’s your job as a savvy consumer to figure out when a retailer is trying to play the calendar to get you to pay…
Most people would agree that being in debt is no fun. Many people even want to pay off their debts like mortgages and student loans as fast as possible. This desire to get rid of debt is even greater when they have bad debt hanging over them. There are times when a person gets over-extended,…
New Year’s Day is the beginning of the end for most people. Everyone sets out with high expectations with what they are planning to change in the upcoming year. Let’s be honest with ourselves, most of us will break our New Year’s resolution by the time we get to February. Instead of making a New…
2013 is just a couple of days away and it’s time for me to start thinking about what I want to see happen in the new year. As the fiscal cliff approaches it looks like most of us are going to need to budget in a little less take home income. Unless a last minute…
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…
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…
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…