Financial Eyes & Ears

Your wedding day can be the best day of your life filled with memories shared with your friends, family, and most importantly, your new spouse. But the expenses for the day can quickly add up, and if you don’t stick to your budget, you can end up over your head in costs. Follow these simple [...]

There are a number of opportunities when it comes to making money through investing. Many people, though, when they think of investing immediately jump to stocks. However, stocks aren’t the only investments worth considering. You can also make money by investing in bonds. When it comes to asset allocation investing in bonds and other fixed [...]

Spring is in the air and with it our desire to spend more time outside with Mother Nature. If you’re looking for a fun way to be with your boo that doesn’t require a ton of cash, consider a picnic. Sure it’s a little retro, but people all over the world still enjoy them and [...]

We’ve been brainwashed, people. The advertisers know exactly how to make us believe we simply can’t live without their products when, in reality, we could survive quite nicely without them, thank-you very much. Half of the things on our grocery lists aren’t food at all. What many cleaning products have going for them is convenience, [...]

Everyone is different. That’s the beauty of life — but also one of its greatest complications. When two people fall in love, the meshing of these differences can be both fun and frustrating, especially when it comes to personal finance. That’s what Elaine has discovered. She’d like some advice on how to merge finances and [...]

This post is by staff writer Sarah Gilbert. I was cleaning the kitchen and listening to NPR (my default state) when A.J. Jacobs came on, discussing the various diets he’d committed to for Drop Dead Healthy, his latest stunt journalism book — this guy practically invented the genre. Naturally, most of the diets were a [...]

This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. He contributes one new article to Get Rich Slowly every two weeks. Retirement planning is ultimately a math equation: Input several variables, and [...]

This is a guest post by Justin Reames, who blogs at The Family Finances. Growing up, I remember watching shows like “Lassie” and movies like “Old Yeller” and “Where the Red Fern Grows”. These were old movies when I was a kid, but they were free to rent from the library, so we watched more [...]