This is a guest post from a.b. of Modern Tightwad. Her focus is on helping you enjoy your life with friends and family, without castrating the piggybank. You can subscribe to her RSS feed here. Financial honesty is an open look at yourself, your habits, your choices, and your numbers. This initial step of acknowledgement

This is a guest post by Matt B at Financial Methods. Matt writes about many aspects of personal finance, and aims to promote financial intelligence to his readers. You can subscribe to Financial Methods, here. Congratulations to Alan and his Bride are due from all of us. He has been a great help and inspiration

The following is a guest post from Mike Piper, author of Oblivious Investing: Building Wealth by Ignoring the Noise. You can also find more of his writing at his similarly titled blog. To invest in an index fund is to accept average market returns. Yet, strangely enough, decade after decade, low cost index funds beat