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
Debunkery, yet again
I hate writing about this topic, so much so that I can’t even be bothered to downshift and transfer this post to the third person like I always do. The only challenge this week will be seeing if I can write 800 words without including anything that could be construed as a double entendre. […]
Attention ProBlogger readers, and confused CYC regulars
If you missed it, I (Greg) wrote a post on ProBlogger that has nothing to do with personal finance. Instead it has to do with online content, which is obviously important to us. The post has inspired a bunch of comments, running about 50-50 in favor of my arguments. Not that that matters: it could […]
Work From Home! (You Can’t Possibly Think This Is Legit)
(UPDATE, February 2014: The site in question here no longer exists, go figure. The URL now redirects to Build.com, which is a subsidiary of UK building materials giant Wolseley. Build.com is basically an online-only equivalent of Lowe’s or Home Depot.) If you still watch conventional old TV, as opposed to Hulu or something similar, you’ve […]
Per capita
You need to understand math to understand money. Not differential equations or sympleptic and contact topology, but a little rudimentary addition and division wouldn’t kill you. Division alone should get you through this week’s post. If you want to grasp what the macroeconomic world means to you, both now and in the future, personalize it. […]