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
Renting vs. owning-part 1
Some people continue to argue that renters are smarter than homeowners, because renters didn’t get caught up in the ‘06-’08 buying frenzy. The credit reports of the few people unable to borrow during the heyday of the easy credit market…what might those look like? In March 2003 we purchased a 3-bedroom, 2-bath, 2-car-garage single-story single-family […]
#79 in the periodic table, #1 in our hearts
Every news story that contains a dollar figure is a product of its time, because inflation taints everything. That’s a recurring theme in the book version of Control Your Cash, soon to be released by a major publisher if certain contingencies break the right way. Inflation, in one paragraph: with rare exceptions, the value of […]
GUEST POST: Don’t Reach For The Middle
We found someone who wasn’t intimidated by our guest post guidelines. Nelson Smith, who blogs over at Financial Uproar. He’s one of the very few personal finance bloggers who can actually write. And he’s hilarious. And we agree with almost all of what he has to say. If you like this post, then he’d love […]
Sex, nudity, pizza and free beer
So September 20’s post was a fun, no-pressure introduction to the three major types of financial statements and how they work. The results? a) No one commented, and b) No one pointed out that we promised to follow up on the details in the next post and didn’t. Conclusion: reading financial statements is boring. Explaining […]
