This week I overheard a conversation that made me ashamed of my generation.  I felt like I aged 20 years and was looking at two young people (roughly my age) in disbelief. I was in a retail store with my wife, and I had a cashier call other stores to check stock on an item. ... Read the rest »

Hi, my name is Daniel, and I… lost track of my finances.  I write (what is for the most part) a personal finance blog, so you’d think that I would track every penney, but I don’t.  We budget to pay ourselves first (savings/retirement), pay all of our bills, and then everything else is give and take.  One month we ... Read the rest »

…Think about how many miles per gallon you get out of your coffee. Your 87 Octane Gas costs about $4.00 a gallon, that “tall” Starbucks coffee in your hand costs about $18.00 per gallon.  Your mocha?… Closer to $30 a gallon. Think About It.