By 2 Cents on October 1st, 2010 | Category: 20 Cents | Another month has passed all too quickly and it’s time to round up a few of my favourite articles from September. How quickly 2010 is slipping away! It seems like just yesterday I was writing up a few ideas on 2010 What Ifs for the New Year. Now it’s time to start thinking about what 2011 might hold!
I read a lot of great articles everyday. I can’t include all of them here, but I usually highlight them on Twitter. You can follow me @BalanceJunkie.
1. Canadian Finance Blog has recently launched Money Index, a website that aggregates all kinds of financial content for you. It’s a great resource for anyone interested in personal finance and investing. I’ve added a widget to get you there on the right sidebar. In case you’re interested, you can find Balance [...]
Read on and enjoy … 20 Cents from September 2010
By 2 Cents on June 1st, 2010 | Category: 20 Cents | It’s time for the next monthly installment of 20 Cents. Is it just me or did it seem like May was only 12 days long? Here are 10 of my favourite articles from around the web for May, 2010.
I try to include a fairly well-rounded selection each month, but 10 slots is just not enough to cover all of the great writing that gets served up each month. I highlight a lot of great articles each day on Twitter. You can follow me @BalanceJunkie.
1. Political Calculations spelled out Three Signs of Economic Trouble in the Modern World. Read the article and find out how many you recognize in today’s economy.
2. Jabulani Lefall wrote about Financial Fear Factors at Wise Bread. The author laments the disappearance of the middle ground along with the middle [...]
Read on and enjoy … 20 Cents from May 2010
By 2 Cents on April 5th, 2010 | Category: Planning | The course of life is unpredictable . . . no one can write his autobiography in advance.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
Update: This post is featured in The Carnival of Money Stories #49 at Foreigner’s Finances. Thanks!
When I wrote about Our 2010 Financial Plan in January, there was a lot of uncertainty about our income – both in terms of quantity and stability. I quoted Jon Bon Jovi, who said, “Map out your future, but do it in pencil.” Well, once again, my eraser is worn down and my pencil, no more than a stub.
At the beginning of this year, Mr. Cents, our sole income earner, had just started on another new job and we were counting on a modest salary plus commission. We wouldn’t have the income we were accustomed to a few years ago, [...]
Read on and enjoy … 2010 Financial Plan: Q1 Update
By 2 Cents on April 1st, 2010 | Category: 20 Cents | Here’s my monthly gathering of 10 of my favourite articles from around the web. The bad news is: there are usually way more than 10 articles that I could include here, so some great ones inevitably get missed. The good news is: I just joined Twitter, so I’ll be able to share articles with you throughout the month. If you want to follow me on Twitter, I’m @BalanceJunkie. Enjoy!
1. Man vs. Debt had a guest post from Carmen on 8 Effective Ways to Raise Frugal Kids. There are some great ideas here, but I don’t see many of the parents I know implementing them. That makes it a lot harder for others to try them out. I guess #4 (socializing with like-minded families) would help a lot.
2. If you want to elicit angry and sometimes downright nasty comments, mention anything to do with [...]
Read on and enjoy … 20 Cents from March 2010
By 2 Cents on March 12th, 2010 | Category: Book Reviews | People are the way they are because that is the way they choose to be. Money doesn’t change the kind of person you are. You are who you are because of the choices you make, not because of how much money you have.
~ Larry Winget
Update: This review is included in the Carnival of Personal Finance #148 – Tour of Ireland Edition at Being Frugal. Thanks!
This book doesn’t make a lot of “best in personal finance” lists and it’s certainly not going to win any literary prizes anytime soon. I read it anyway, and I would recommend that you read it too. It’s a fast, often funny read and it is (at times, brutally) honest. If you feel like you might need a kick in the hindquarters to get you moving on controlling your finances and eliminating your debt, Larry’s [...]
Read on and enjoy … Book Review: You’re Broke Because You Want to Be
By 2 Cents on January 22nd, 2010 | Category: Spending | Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
~ Author Unknown
Update: This post is included in The Carnival of Personal Finance @ My Journey to Millions. Thanks Evan!
Have you ever replaced an item before it really stopped working? Recently, we bought a new washer and dryer. Our old ones were working fine, but they were over 10 years old, and we began to worry about a sudden service interruption. We do a lot more laundry at our house than we used to. Here’s a tip for those of you with really young children out there: their clothes get bigger too! This means it takes a lot fewer pairs of jeans to fill the washer.
Mr. Cents did a lot of research online and decided that the most likely future problem would be that a bearing might go on the washer. It would [...]
Read on and enjoy … Preemptive Purchases: Wasteful or Worth It?
By 2 Cents on January 14th, 2010 | Category: Money Psychology |  The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs.
~ Joe Girard
Update: This article made it into the editor’s top 5 picks in The Carnival of Personal Finance – Support Haiti Edition @ Million Dollar Journey. Thanks Frugal Trader!
Abraham Maslow is the psychologist best known for his hierarchy of needs. He basically postulated that humans need to have more basic needs fulfilled before we try to satisfy higher level needs. If we try to attain higher self-esteem while more basic needs like steady employment or a stable family life go unmet, we will feel uncomfortable and stressed out. This goes along with the idea that discomfort means change is required.
Now I am certainly not the first to draw a parallel between Maslow’s hierarchy of human needs and our financial needs. In doing the [...]
Read on and enjoy … Your Financial Hierarchy of Needs
By 2 Cents on January 13th, 2010 | Category: Book Reviews | Sometimes people who save their money are shown as the colorless folks, the conservative ones who don’t dare. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, people who save are the ones who dare to dream, the ones who have big ideas – and who make real plans to make those dreams happen. In our opinion, savers are the ones who taste life at its richest.
~ Elizabeth Warren & Amelia Warren Tyagi, All Your Worth, p. 182
I’ve read quite a few personal finance, investing, and trading books. Almost all of them provide some value. They often deliver similar messages in different ways. I have yet to read a few of the real classics, but they’re up next on my list and I’ll post some reviews as I finish them. Having said that, I would say that this is the best personal finance handbook I [...]
Read on and enjoy … Book Review: All Your Worth
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