We started Control Your Cash for one reason:
Your relationship with money is almost certainly dysfunctional. You don’t know what you don’t know, probably because nobody ever taught you.
Fortunately, you can stop letting money act on you – and actually take charge of it.
We don't give patently obvious advice here, stuff like "spend less than you make." (Wow, what insight.)
Instead, we show you what pitfalls to avoid and what quiet opportunities to take advantage of. Spend a little time here and you’ll no longer have to pretend that you know what the S&P 500 is. Or whether a Roth IRA is better than a traditional one. You’ll understand the why, and the how.
And you’ll find that personal finance is a lot less complicated than you thought.
The Latest
The Best Alternatives to a 401(k)
The well of creativity is barely a trickle at this point. Our muse went to St. Tropez with someone younger and better-looking, and that was months ago. Is she ever coming back? We’ll leave a light on. Spend more time at the gym. Buy more flattering clothes. Vacuum the house once in a while. Damn, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Back from the Dead Edition
If you missed last week’s Carnival of Wealth…well, you weren’t the only one. First, the excuse: we use a couple of hosting services to organize the carnival submissions for us. One of those services has been down for a while now, the other one takes submissions and watches them disappear into the ether. So […]
An Investopedia Repost About Lockouts and Such
From our Investopedia files, a piece about sports labor strife. Which doesn’t pertain to your life unless you’re an athlete, an agent, or maybe a team owner, but it’s an entertaining read. Trust us, we wrote it. Here’s an enticing sample: By 2011, pro football had metamorphosed from popular sport into national obsession. That spring, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Andrew Pohl Edition
That’s the problem with being selective. You accept only the good submissions, or the stupendously awful ones, and pretty soon the number of submitters dwindles to a trickle. Presenting another edition of the Carnival of Wealth, the only personal finance blog carnival worth a damn. Even with only 2 submitters. One of whom is […]
From the Archives
A Reader Explains How Control Your Cash Turned His Life Around
We’re exaggerating, but not egregiously. We recently received an email from a reader named Milton (a real email, not one we concocted to create a mailbag with.) He understandably requested anonymity, but here’s the gist of it: I’ve been enjoying your blog since I discovered it (via the Simple Dollar– talk about a fortunate turn […]
In college? Switch majors. TODAY.
Problem: a college’s engineering students have futuristic ideas, but no clue how to monetize them. That same college’s business students have grand capitalistic designs, but nothing to market. You can probably figure out the solution. We’ve said repeatedly at Control Your Cash that formal higher “education” isn’t an absolute good. And we’ll continue to […]
Here’s to the winners
The contest is over. Thanks to everyone who tweeted, facebooked, myspaced and even friendsterred us into their networks. Congratulations to all who participated in our contest – even if you didn’t win anything you still had the satisfaction of knowing that you were spreading the gospel of spending and investing money intelligently. Which on some […]
“I Bought It On Sale” = I’m Probably An Idiot
Allow us the indulgence of quoting ourselves, since there are so few other personal finance bloggers worth repeating the words of. The man in this story sued Target because the store claimed that the $150 worth of luggage they sold him was discounted from $300, when in fact it was discounted from some smaller amount. […]