Archive for May, 2009

To what degree should finances affect life decisions?

Last week, I listed some some of my poorer financial decisions. Unfortunately, the picture that I inserted into the post seemed to give the impression that I viewed having children as a poor financial decision. That was not the intent and I took a little heat for that decision. But the discussion did start me [...]

Winner of the Skinny on credit cards

Thanks to everyone that entered into the Skinny on credit cards book giveaway.  I received 22 entries and visited random.org to pick to the random winning comment.  Random.org picked comment #8…and the winner is:
Kim (the first one)!!
In her comment, Kim said:

This sounds like a REALLY great book, and I’d love to win it to give [...]

Specialized emergency funds

I’ve been talking about the benefits of having an emergency fund for a while now.  As a matter of fact, my 7th article here on Gather Little by Little introduced the concept as step 5 of my Getting Your Finances Under Control series.
When I first heard Dave Ramsey talk about the concept it was in [...]