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
The Best Hotel Values in America, Volume I
The CYC authors travel, a lot. And we’re proud to say we’ve never stayed in an expensive hotel that a client wasn’t paying for. Even then, given the opportunity we’d prefer to have traded down to a business-traveler hotel and pocketed the difference. But that damn social propriety gets in the way again, and considers […]
How To Go Broke In Real Estate
Every other post, you guys write about making money through real estate. It’s not that simple. We never said it was. If your wealth plan consists of nothing more than buying the cheapest house you can find and then placing an ad on Craig’s List for a renter, of course you’re going to fail. […]
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 […]
I’ll Shop At Trader Joe’s When I’m Dead
It’s hard to imagine that trying to save money while stocking your pantry can be taken as a social statement. But for some people, politics infuses everything. Walmart is America’s biggest retailer, a weekly staple for tens of millions of consumers. But for several thousand others with a flair for being dramatic and uninformed, […]
