Blog Profile / Beating Broke
| URL : | http://www.beatingbroke.com/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Business & Finance / Personal Finance | |
| Posts on Regator: | 347 | |
| Posts / Week: | 3.5 | |
| Archived Since: | July 5, 2011 | |
Blog Post Archive
Earning > Saving
Saving is a finite solution. You can only save so much, can only be so frugal. Your power for earning is unlimited with the right resource (you), the right tools (knowledge), and the right force (hard work). That isn’t to discount saving. Saving is an important part of the equation too. But, because of it’s [...]Show More Summary
Personal Crowd Funding?
We’ve all heard about the many different crowdfunding organizations out there. Probably the most famous of them is Kickstarter. Or maybe Indiegogo. Adam from Man vs. Debt recently crowdfunded his documentary “I’m Fine, Thanks” through Kickstarter. Using crowdfunding sites has become pretty popular. It’s a great way for artists and creators to fund the products [...]Show More Summary
Signs You Are Carrying Too Much Debt
Gary Dek is a contributor to Gajizmo.com and is always looking for ways to make and invest money. Gary previously worked for an internet company on their M&A team, as well as investment banking and private equity firms in California. Some of life’s necessities, like homes and arguably cars, cost more than most people can save in 5 [...]Show More Summary
World Diets: A Week’s Worth of Groceries
Ok, so I saw this post over at FStoppers about What a Week of Groceries Looks Like Around the World, and I couldn’t help but mark it for a second look, and eventually an article here. Click on that link and go take a look. Look at what each picture contains and then come back [...]Show More Summary
Mother’s Day Deals – Great Gifts At Great Prices
The following is a guest post brought to you by: Mother’s Day is all about showing mom just how special she really is and what a positive impact she’s had on your life. Unfortunately, finding a gift that says all of that can be a daunting task. Coming up with the perfect present is even [...]Show More Summary
Creative, Frugal Mother’s Day Gift Ideas for Kids and Adults
Mother’s Day is right around the corner. If you’re scrambling to find ways to show mom how much you love and care for her, don’t worry. There are many ways you can do just that without breaking the bank or relying on the same old boring gift of breakfast in bed or dinner out. Projects [...]Show More Summary
Are You Guilty of Short Term Financial Thinking? Here’s How to Fix It
Let’s be honest. We’re all a little bit irrational with money. Think of the person who drives 5 minutes out of his way to buy ten gallons of gas that is 2 cents cheaper per gallon. Was the additional.20 cents savings worth 5 minutes of his time? No. What about the person who buys [...]Show More Summary
The New Retirement
I recently had the chance to chat with Todd Tresidder. If you don’t know the name, don’t worry. Up until about a year ago, I didn’t either. But, the short of it is that the guy is retired. In fact, he retired much earlier than most will. At the ripe “old” age of 35, he [...]Show More Summary
Lending Club Return Update 1Q13
If this is the first of my Lending Club return updates that you’ve read, let me catch you up a bit. It all started with a little Lending Club / Sharebuilder experiment. It’s moved on past that, to an ongoing series here at Beating Broke where I share, on a quarterly basis, how the account [...]Show More Summary
Personal Finance Education with H&R Block
Let’s face it. The current level of personal finance education is staggeringly poor. Students in our public schools are receiving little, if any, education on how to properly handle their finances. Most of the parents of those same students are so bad with finances that they are unable to teach their kids anything either. One [...]Show More Summary
Capital One 360 Review
For many years, I was a user of ING Direct and their online banking products. When word went out a while back that the US branch of their online bank was being sold I began to worry that a good thing was about to be ruined. When we learned that the company that was buying [...]Show More Summary
Currency Exchange Market affecting Property Values and Exchange Rates
This post brought to you by Eden Smith, a professional business analyst from London. In that odd communist/capitalist empire called China the rules are flexible and the goalposts are mounted on wheels. Even when new rules are announced it is not always easy to see through the alterations and understand what their new impact will [...]Show More Summary
Rainbows on the Road
The other day, as my daughter was on her way to the car when I picked her up from daycare. Along the way, she noticed something on the ground. In the excited voice of a 4 year old, she said “Daddy! Look! A rainbow!”, and then pointed at the spot on the ground she was [...]Show More Summary
Looking for More Ways to Save? Try Asking for Discounts
There are plenty of ways to save on a daily basis–clipping coupons, resisting the urge to buy something, packing your lunch instead of eating out, etc. There are many ways to live a more frugal life, and chances are, you incorporate the ways that are easy. You know, the ones that don’t cause you to [...]Show More Summary
DIY Projects that Sound Scary, But Aren’t
In the world of frugality, there are few things that will save you more money than learning a few DIY skills. From simple things like replacing the light switch cover, to more difficult things like wiring electrical, the savings of doing it yourself over hiring a professional to do it can mean hundreds and even [...]Show More Summary
Debt Heroes
Debt Heroes By: Jeff Rose & Ben Edwards Ben and Jeff approached me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I’d like to read a copy of their book, Debt Heroes. They released the book as a companion to the Debt Movement that Jeff started back in February. They even offered it for free [...]Show More Summary
12 Tricks to Declutter Your Life and Your Future
The following is a guest post by CollegeMom, who is a staff writer at ConsumerFu.com She has a background in commercial banking and is an expert at raising children on a budget. She and her husband live on four acres of old farmland with their two dogs, one cat and enough gardens to feed them [...]Show More Summary
Attention Google Reader, um, Readers
Be warned. This post has absolutely nothing to do with personal finance. It does have to do with how some of you get your personal finance articles from Beating Broke, however. More specifically, with those of you who use Google Reader to read the articles here on Beating Broke. The latest stats show that there [...]Show More Summary
Embrace Peer to Peer Lending
The following is a guest post from Simon Cunningham who is the editor of LendingMemo.com, a site devoted to heralding the amazingness of peer to peer lending. Imagine it is Monday morning. You just had a great Sunday with your family, doing chores around the house and watching a movie together. But now you are [...]Show More Summary
How Big Is Your Circle Of Support?
You’ve likely heard the phrases, “No man is an island, entire of itself” and “It takes a village to raise a child.” What these phrases get at is the importance of having a circle, a group you can depend on. Although we like to think we can do it all alone, life is generally much [...]Show More Summary