Who else is tired of the Winter weather? If you live anywhere near me (east), then you’re probably also over all this snow and cold that just continues to dump on us every day. We were watching the news and they mentioned that at this time last year it was 70 degrees outside! Can you believe that? I don’t need it to be 70, but I would like it be just a little more spring-like. This weekend we’ll be getting things ready for Easter and taking our daughter out for her birthday. I also plan to start reading my new book, The A to Z of Saving Money. This is a new ebook collaboration among several personal finance bloggers, and I’ve been looking forward to reading it for a while. If you’d like to enter a contest for your chance to win a … [Read more...] about Tired of Winter, The A to Z of Saving Money, and a Giveaway
Building My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 3
It’s been only 3 months now since I really started to crank things into high gear and focus on developing my new niche website. For anyone who wants some background, you can read about my development in Part 1 and Part 2. My goal is to figure out what works and create a portfolio of money earning sites that will contribute to my passive income initiative. If you’ve been following along (and I appreciate the interest), here is an update on how things are going: … [Read more...] about Building My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 3
Who is the Best IRA Provider When You Don’t Have Much Money to Open an Account?
This post was a great suggestion from Alexa over at Single Moms Income. If you have a topic you’d like me to write about on My Money Design, please feel free to comment or send me an email. Read any article about money and what will it tell you? Start an IRA! You know the benefits. You know it’s good for your finances. But what if you don’t have a lot of money to put in one? Where can you find the best IRA provider without having to open an account with thousands of dollars? Never fear! You’ve got options. In this age of online accounts and competition, more and more IRA providers are willing to accept less money to get started. This just translates into more opportunities and options for you to choose from. In this … [Read more...] about Who is the Best IRA Provider When You Don’t Have Much Money to Open an Account?
Where’s Da Money? – Rethinking My Online Income System
Where IS all the money at? Lately what’s been on my mind is all the whirlwind of activity within the personal finance blogging world. We’ve got 1) Google threatening more algorithm updates, 2) some big sites losing their PR, and 3) sites being sold off. With all of this hoopla, it makes me wonder if I need to rethink my online income system for making money off my blog. Going forward, what IS the marketing plan for My Money Design? … [Read more...] about Where’s Da Money? – Rethinking My Online Income System
Using Blogs to Learn Great Basic Financial Planning Skills
When I first became an adult with a family and mortgage, I knew that I would have both a responsibility and obligation to make sure that our household was always protected. That meant not only just working hard and earning a decent wage, but also making sure I at least understood basic financial planning enough that I would be able to engage in some of the many ways to grow your income. My ambitions started out with reading lots of the best money books. I would go through page after page trying to find the magic equation for getting rich. By purposely picking books that were written by millionaires themselves, I thought I would be able to learn from their methods and reproduce their success. … [Read more...] about Using Blogs to Learn Great Basic Financial Planning Skills
How to Clear Credit Card Debt By Clawing Your Way Out
This post was written by Kevin Donovan from financialupdate.org.uk. He often writes about how the decisions made by politicians and bankers affect our daily lives and the ability to cope with the economic stress of an ever more debt ridden world. Every day we see large companies take large substantial hits. This one to wonder: If they can’t survive this bleak economic climate, how can we? … [Read more...] about How to Clear Credit Card Debt By Clawing Your Way Out
Wealth Creation Strategies That Are Within Your Reach
Do you believe that getting rich is something exclusive? That only certain people are entitled to it, but for some reason you’re not? If you do think this way, you’re doing yourself a great disservice. With the information age and all the resources that come with it, there are more wealth creation strategies and opportunities available to us than ever. A financial adviser can help you manage your finances correctly to increase your chances of gaining wealth. Common people like us can take advantage of these tools and build a fortune that will last a lifetime. But the trick is first being able recognize what’s in your face, and then jumping all over them without hesitation. Your Job is Not (and Should Not Be) the Only Way to Create … [Read more...] about Wealth Creation Strategies That Are Within Your Reach
The New Oz Movie and Some Blog Updates
This weekend we plan to take the kids to go see the new Oz movie. It looks pretty good; and kind of very similar to the recent Alice in Wonderland. The kids have been eating up all of the commercials and teasing to go see it since they first started advertising for it. Funny story: A few months ago my son watched the original Wizard of Oz for the first time on TV. Somewhere during the middle, I asked him how he liked it. He said it was really good, but that you could tell it was REALLY old. I was a little puzzled and asked him how he knew that. He said “because they keep on singing everything”. :) … [Read more...] about The New Oz Movie and Some Blog Updates
