Over the last year or two, a number of online websites that help you deal with your personal finances have popped up. They work by aggregating all of your personal finance information, compiling it, and offer back to you an easy to view overview of your finances. Mint is probably the most popular and common

Last Monday I asked whether or not you were ready to tackle your personal finances. Here’s the truth. Keeping track of your personal finances – setting goals, making a budget, sticking to it – is hard work. Its not even a lot of fun or enjoyable most of the time. You’re not going to want

Over the last few years, I’ve started (but not completed) a fair number of physical fitness “regimes”. While I was in college, I tried going swimming every other day (great workout), going to the gym every other day, running a certain distance in a certain amount of time, etc. After awhile, all of them would

How intimate are you with your spending? One of the first things that I did when I started getting interested in my personal finances was to develop a spending record. It took on a number of variations at first, starting as a few scribbled notes on a piece of paper, or a list in a