My wife shared a link with me this evening that looks pretty interesting. It’s a coupon and discount site called Groupon, but it’s more than just coupons. It’s a marketing tool as well and the idea is to swarm a location or establishment with business. What company wouldn’t want that kind of attention?!

With coupons, you did like I did tonight and save a few bucks on a variety of different grocery items. Groupon let’s you save real money on some really great stuff that you’d like to do, but you didn’t want to spend the full price on it to …read more

Following on a little bit of a pattern, I keep coming across some great websites that are focused on the topic of saving money and improving your financial situation. The Inexpensively website is a blog network of bloggers focused on living inexpensively.

A friend of mine has recently started blogging as The Queen of Free and she’s knocking it out of the park for being a new blogger. There’s a focused niche of people that are really on fire in this arena and the Inexpensively website puts many of them together into a network and brings you the best of their …read more

With the beginning of August 2009 I ended a 15 year negative habit and the resulting consequences of those 15 years. In July we paid off our last credit card to a complete $0 balance across the board. I can tell you from my personal experience, the weight that was lifted feels incredible to no longer carry. We still have bills we’re focusing on with medical bills, car payment and those darn school loans to get rid of next.

My wife and I are big fans of Dave Ramsey and we worked an adapted version of the plan that Dave …read more

With the future economy situation staring us in the face, I can tell you one thing, figuring out how to educate my kids on a couple of different things:

Teach them how to not make the same mistakes that I have as a child, teenager, college student and now an adult.
Teach them how to be flexible and understand how to adjust what they know and learn to the current financial situation.

I came across this article from GreatSchools entitled "Smart Money: Seven Ways to Raise a Financially Literate Child".
Some of these items may be obvious, others may share a nugget of additional …read more

Have you heard of Photrade? I uncovered the Photrade website awhile back through another website I’d visited and an email newsletter I received about the upcoming blogINDIANA conference coming up in Indianapolis. I then realized they were also advertising on this blog here so decided to check them out.
I was quickly impressed with what you could do with sharing your photos and even making money from them as well.
Photrade is where photographers reclaim ownership of their photos. Photraders decide how, when, where and at what cost their photos are used online. We provide unprecedented protection for photos and offer a …read more

Did you remember to pay your electric bill? Probably since you’re reading this. What about your refilling your kids online lunch money account? Homeowner’s dues? Cable bill? School loans? That loan from you brother’s wife’s sister who dated your best friends second cousin during in high school when you live in Nebraska?
NO!?
Maybe billQ is just for you. billQ let’s you setup a bill or groups of bills and remind yourself and/or others that the payment is due. A great way for roommates to make sure everybody remembers how to split the rent 3-ways and all the utilities.

billQ is a new …read more

I just received an e-mail from Upromise talking about a new $25,000 Upromise Scholarship Prize.
If you’re not familiar with Upromise, it’s something like a frequent shopper or “Points” program, but you don’t have to do anything special to earn money to put towards your kid’s education. All you do is register your credit/debit cards and when you buy stuff at your local grocery stores and restaurants, you earn money back that can be put into a variety of investments, 529’s and other savings plans to use towards college.
You can also make purchases through their online store links and earn more …read more