After seeing a number of other bloggers talking about it, I recently decided to see what all the Swagbucks fuss was about. I wasn't really sure what a Swagbuck was, but it seemed to be an option to earn a little on the side without doing surveys or...

I'm not a frugalista because I'm not allowed to be. This seems to be ridiculous trademark litigation week in the personal finance blogosphere and a very unfrugal (it seems) frugalista, is sending out notices that she's trademarked the rather common...

A credit card company is not a public servant. Nor are they your employees, even in the traditional way that businesses are looked at as serving customers. Credit cards seem to fall into the catagory of business relationships, mutuall beneficial in...

How far would you go to save money? Do you clip coupons? Avoid ATM fees by using cashback? Most of us have done both of those at least a few times. What about seeing multiple movies for the price of one ticket? Pretending it's your birthday to get a...

Today's my 24th birthday. It's making me get all meta about my life and think about the big picture. I've been with Micah for a little over 7 years, over 1/4 of my life. I've been out of college for 2 years, married for 2 years. I've learned a lot...