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
Financial Retards of the Month
Last month we reported on what we were fairly certain was a parody, and no one’s disproven our hypothesis so far. But the line between parody and reality is almost nonexistent in 2011 America. Case in point, the idle hundreds who have decided to do their part for humanity by making Occupy Wall Street their […]
Less is More. Even Less is Even More.
That there’s too much information is obvious. So don’t perpetuate the problem. If you’re reading this, then presumably you’re financially curious if not financially savvy. As the old saying was supposed to go, curiosity killed the overzealous investor. Here, just this once, resist the temptation to check the market daily. It does you no good […]
We’ll Give You $5 To Reject The First Offer
You’ve probably heard the expression, “You don’t get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate.” Okay, who coined it? Zig Ziglar Og Mandino Yag Oliveri Tom Peters Chester L. Karrass 1, 2 and 4 are/were self-help authors and motivational speakers. 3 is a name we made up. 5 is the right answer. You might remember […]
The Poor Aren’t Getting Poorer. They’re Getting Stupider.
Every week we host the Carnival of Wealth which, although it features content written by other people, requires us to work harder than we do to write one of our own posts. This week we received a submission from Flexo, the guy who runs Consumerism Commentary. When we started CYC, Flexo was one of […]
