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
Lower fees through prevarication
If you missed it, this post originally ran on The Writer’s Coin. We contemporized it for August. When is it OK not to pay a bill? (If you’re the Hawai’i state government, “Whenever it suits you.”) Your humble poster automates whatever finances he can, setting and then forgetting the cable bill, the phone bill, the […]
We’re So Smart It’s Terrifying
Two years ago we wrote a post on the foolishness of getting caught up in topical and exciting initial public offerings. And this was back when Facebook was still privately held. For the unsophisticated among you, yet another piece of knowledge that’s so obvious it’s easy to miss: Your bank account understands only numbers. […]
Thank You, Netflix. And No, That’s Not Sarcasm.
People are never satisfied. 2-year old Netflix replaced standard movie rentals with its famed subscription model in 1999. The model worked almost the same way that it does now: you paid $x a month to rent as many movies as you wanted, but no more than three simultaneously. Those movies were then, in a sense, […]
Net Worth And Lipidity
We recently discovered this awful place called Planet Fitness, which demonstrates how financial objectives can sometimes get in the way of more important ones. (Yes, we just admitted that some things are more important than money. Not many, mind you.) We’ll get to the personal finance aspect of this in a second, but first […]
