Archive for August, 2008

Paying credit cards before a mortgage? What???

I work in IT for a bank.  During our monthly team meetings, we often have guest speakers from different areas of the bank come and talk to us about their area.  One of our recent speakers was from our credit card division.  While not a fan of credit cards, learning about the business model was [...]

Teen money management mistakes

I’ve learned a great about personal finance over the years.  Much of it through writing here on Gather Little by Little, reading other personal finance blogs, and reading books.  Unfortunately, the majority of it I’ve learned the hard way, by making mistakes and suffering the consequences.
In order to try and keep our children from having [...]

Online survey scams?

Yesterday I received an email from a reader that concerned me and I felt you should be aware of:
Hi, I just thought I would pass on a warning to you about something that
happened to me doing online surveys.
Today, at my door via the US post, a box full of Dr. Suess books showed up.
I didn’t [...]