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
Request of the Week
We’d never solicited requests at Control Your Cash, but then Twitter follower @JSmisko sent us the following tweet: @CYCash If u have done a blog on life ins, plz repost for me. Thx. Rather than ask why he didn’t spell all the words in full with the 66 remaining characters Twitter allotted him, we’re indulging […]
Marissa Mayer Is Wrong. So Are Her Employees.
If you missed it, Yahoo!’s* new CEO decided this week that her employees can no longer work from home. At the very least, her move started a national if not international debate: Employees Will Abuse The Freedom vs. The Flexibility Cat Chewed Through The Bag Years Ago. Who’s right? Neither, but Ms. Mayer […]
9/10 of a Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
Here’s a fun idea for a drinking game: gather your alcoholic friends around the TV at 6 pm or 11 pm (or if you’re truly committed drunks, 7 am.) Turn on the local news. Anytime an anchor uses the phrase “pain at the pump”, do a shot. If the same phrase appears as a graphic, […]
Financial Retard of the Month, By Request
We swear to God, we don’t go looking for this stuff. Let’s just give Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar the lifetime achievement award, Retard of Eternity, and be done with it. But even Trent Hamm at his cheapest doesn’t complain about the hand life dealt him. Far from it, in fact. He sees […]