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
Everyone Lies
Because there just aren’t enough stories about Apple as an investment, we’re adding our own. Why not? Apple is to personal finance as Tim Tebow is to ESPN First Take. Even if nothing of note is happening with the subject at hand, we still need to not only talk about it, but do […]
The Control Your Cash Mailbag, Part I of II
Got a question? Submit it to info at Control Your Cash dot com. Today we discuss college education and weddings, two of our favorite topics. Our long-winded answers follow, with more mailbag goodness on Friday. Dear CYC: I’m a junior at a fairly prestigious (non-Ivy League) school in the northeast. I’m doing a double […]
Financial Retard of the Month, February 2012
We were all set to give this month’s award to Trent Hamm yet again. Trent has made the Financial Retard of the Month his to lose, commandeering it like Bobby Orr did the Norris Trophy and Hank Hill did Strickland Propane’s Employee of the Year. We had Trent’s name on the plaque and […]
Take The Underdog
This post doesn’t have a lot to do with personal finance, but we did the research and needed to present it somewhere. Just as George Will takes a break from his political columns to write an annual column on baseball, consider this our indulgence. Plus you’ll learn something. If you know the rudiments of sports […]
