Yahoo suggests five key questions you'll want answered before you take a job as follows: What makes employees join this company and stay here? How are people treated here? What are the unspoken rules? What happens when people make mistakes? What is a typical week like? In other words, you're trying ...

A co-worker of mine is in the market for a new/used car. She's looking at a few options and starting to narrow the choices. A couple weeks ago, she showed up to work with a new ride and I thought she'd made her decision. Nope, not yet. Turns out the dealership allowed her to keep the car overnight t...

Welcome to this week's edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. For those of you who do not know what a carnival is, check out Best Practices for Driving Traffic with Blog Carnivals and How to Get Your Blog to 100,000 Visitors and Beyond, Step 13; Participate in Carnivals. This particular carni...

For those of you new to Free Money Finance, I post on The Bible and Money every Sunday. Here's why . Today we have a guest post from Crackerjack Greenback . Take a breath. Every 3.6 seconds, about the time from one breath to the next, one person dies of starvation. Usually, it's a child under the ag...

Here's an interesting exchange from my post titled How to Postpone Foreclosure. It starts with this comment: Another way to postpone (or even eliminate) foreclosure... -make your payments as agreed. I know it's not a very popular idea, but it works! One reader (Laura S) took exception to this and s...

Just got this via email from BillShrink and have their permission to reprint it. It's a simple listing of what they call 15 things we over-pay for. Pseudo Health Products – Like the “protein bars� that are presented as “low fat� or “all natural� even though can end up just as unhealthy...

The following is a guest post from Marotta Asset Management . Crazy volatile markets push people toward irrational investment schemes. Methods to safeguard our investments won't prevent loss, but ideally they will prevent us from putting our money in investments where we should have known better. Le...

Here we go with the first round of Free Money Finance March Madness (if you wonder what's going on in these posts, see my article announcing March Madness and/or click on my March Madness category link and scroll down to read all the posts involved in this subject.) I've listed each "game" (one pos...

Consumer Reports has some good thoughts on making sure your tax preparer is really qualified before you hire him/her. In particular, they share four things you should do before hiring a tax preparer as follows: Ask about your preparer's qualifications Get an estimate of costs up front Find out how y...

Here's an email I received from a reader. It's a bit long, but an interesting read as it compares contrasting money styles among spouses: I found your website by searching Google and started to read your posts every day. They are very practical and easy to understand. One of the most important messa...