Adventures in Personal Finance
Every month most households have some kind of recurring bill. For me, those are mortgage, HOA dues, phone/internet, and credit cards. Add rent, power, water, TV, and insurance and you have a standard list of monthly bills in this country. Some people’s are more, some are less. How you pay them, however, is usually up to you.
One of my favorite money tracking tools, Adaptu, has closed its doors leaving us looking for other ideas on how to track our money. Here are a few top choices for savvy consumers to manage and track their money.
Now that you understand the benefits of online banking, we can take it to the next level. Gone are the days when you have to log into to each bank to check your balances and sort through all of your credit card transactions on different sites. We now are in a new generation of online banking.
I have spoken at two Ignite events before, Ignite Chanukah and Ignite Denver, and have my third planned for the Financial Blogger Conference in September. I am excited to share with you the awesome video of me telling Denver how to start a blog that doesn’t suck. Even if you think your blog is pretty sweet, you can probably learn a thing or two from this talk. Or at least be entertained.
Thanks to the following sites for mentioning me and including me in roundups this month.
Carnival of Personal Finance – Independence Celebration 2012 Edition
Carnival of Personal Finance #372: Olympic Sports I Would Be Good At Edition
Wise Bread Best Money Tips – July 10th
Wise Bread Best Money Tips – July 27th
I have written about LastPass a few times before. LastPass is a password protection tool that you can use to secure your online life. They recently added a new free credit monitor feature that you can use to make sure you know about any unwanted surprises on your credit report.
Last weekend, I went to a local computer specialty store to research a few items that I need to buy. I was surprised by how helpful my phone was in researching not only price, but other factors that went into my purchase decisions as well.
This post is part of a series on reaching a zero inbox. Managing our inboxes can be difficult and stressful at times. These tips are designed to help you conquer your email permanently to make sure you don’t miss anything important and don’t waste your time on junk.
Over the last four days, we have cleaned the hell out of our inboxes. We have setup rules and filters to keep the junk out and the unimportant stuff out of the way. We have built a system around efficiency, an inbox to do list, responding, and following up. You should already be at zero, but keeping it that way takes some dedication.
This post is part of a series on reaching a zero inbox. Managing our inboxes can be difficult and stressful at times. These tips are designed to help you conquer your email permanently to make sure you don’t miss anything important and don’t waste your time on junk.
Now that we have unsubscribed, filtered, and prioritized our inboxes, it is time to build a sustainable system to keep your inbox clean for the long haul. Luckily, this is easier than just replying and deleting to every email as it arrives. We have tools to make things much easier to handle and track.
This post is part of a series on reaching a zero inbox. Managing our inboxes can be difficult and stressful at times. These tips are designed to help you conquer your email permanently to make sure you don’t miss anything important and don’t waste your time on junk.
One thing that keeps me from a zero inbox is having something to respond to. I use my inbox as a to-do list. I tend to keep emails in the inbox as a reminder to follow up or respond to something. That is not a good habit if you want your inbox to be at zero.
This post is part of a series on reaching a zero inbox. Managing our inboxes can be difficult and stressful at times. These tips are designed to help you conquer your email permanently to make sure you don’t miss anything important and don’t waste your time on junk.
Now that we have crushed all of those subscriptions we don’t want, it is time to move on and do a little heavy lifting. Today, we are going to setup automatic rules to filter our emails so we only have to spend time on what is important.
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