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The envelope system is a method recommended my many financial professionals (including Dave Ramsey) for making a quick and easy budget. The above video is a short, straight-forward introduction to using this system.

It might be boring, but one of the best, most consistent ‘investments’ is buying in bulk.
Take a big trip to Costco and go on a $1,000 spending spree and buy everything in bulk that you will need over the next year. Compared to what it would cost to buy those items individually, you will [...]

John Gerzema gave an interesting TEDx talk on how customers are dealing with the current economy and how communications technology is making capitalism better.
Some of the highlights:

Spending is at its lowest in 63 years
More people are using debit cards than credit cards
Americans are holding onto their cars for longer than ever: 9.4 years
Library membership is [...]

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The best financial decision I ever made wasn’t a financial decision: I got married. Much to my surprise, my financial life turned around once I found my beautiful bride. Mine is not an unusual situation — according to Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Popenoe from Rutgers University. people who marry are, on average, [...]

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Not all dollars are created equal.
According to research performed by Priya Raghubir, people are more likely to spend small-value bills than large-value bills. She terms the brain’s preference to hold onto bigger bills the “Denomination Effect”
Dr Raghubir tested this effect by paying visitors to an Omaha gas station $5 to fill in a fake [...]

The people over an common craft have make a cute little video about how and why to save your money.  Check it out below:

The world recently crossed a demographic threshold: as of mid 2008 more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities. Despite the Malthusian predictions of the 70s, the population of industrialized nations is decreasing — and the cities are the cause. Cities act as population sinkholes for one simple reason: babies are [...]

Coin by Coin loves ING Direct.
ING is a bank run by the Dutch. Dutchmen are a no-nonsense, fair dealing, punctual, get-stuff-done kind of people. Their tiny nation should, by all rights, be underwater. But no! The Dutch hold back the ocean with casual grace as though it was no effort (which [...]

Jonathan Clements was a columnist at the Wall Street Journal who’s been writing columns on personal finance since 1994. This April he wrote his last article called ‘What I learned from writing 1,008 columns’ giving his opinion on why you should bother with saving and investing. Here are his reasons:

If you have money, [...]

David Bach, in The Automatic Millionaire warns us of the Latte Factor: how small, daily costs add up to big expenses. Whenever the Latte Factor is mentioned, shocking numbers always follow: for example, if you don’t by a $4 cup of coffee daily and instead invest the money, after thirty years you will have [...]