Yes, it’s getting close to that time again. Christmas has passed, New Years is in the rear view mirror, and pretty soon, you will be getting a bigger-than usual envelope from your employer. No, I’m sorry to say that I’m not referring to a cash bonus, although that would be wonderful. I’m [...]

While it may be a little early in the year for tax talk for some, I personally believe that it is never a bad time to plan or even talk about taxes. Today, I happened to see a tweet linking to an article on Kiplinger’s Website for a section called 10 Ways To Lower [...]

A couple of days ago, Kiplinger Online ran an editorial called “20 Ways to Waste Your Money” which outlines a variety of ways in which people “waste” money.  My question is, these are “wastes” according to whose ideals and beliefs?  There are obviously people who have enough money to spend on anything they want, and [...]

For those who are interested, and even those who aren’t, the Carnival of Financial Planning for March 21, 2009 is now up and live on the Skilled Investor’s blog.  I have to say thank you once again for including my post Read This Before You Trade Any More Stocks in the carnival! infant motrin
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Generally, I tend to find many of the articles on MSN Money either too narrow-sighted or overly-simplistic.  Today, however, Jeff Schnepper wrote a very interesting article called Should You Do Your Own Taxes? which I found very different.  It wasn’t one of those entries about how anyone can do their own taxes as long as [...]