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
They Gave Us Money
This is a guest post from Logan Abbott, a personal finance expert and blogger. He’s also the editor of MyRatePlan Credit Cards, an authority site for comparing credit cards online. 5 Tips To Keep In Mind When You Apply For A New Credit Card Almost every time I open my mailbox, there’s a few credit […]
The Wealthy Really Are Better Than You
Sooner or later, every website with a passing interest in personal finance posts some version of “The X Habits of Wealthy People”. You know how these lists are going to end before they start. Yeah, rich folks spend less than they earn and don’t drive ostentatious cars. Great, what else you got? First, that’s not […]
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 […]
Stupidity Before Bed, And After Every Meal
Kudos yet again to everyone’s favorite purveyor of pointless personal finance advice, Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar. Our hero has discovered a groundbreaking new way to avoid the tartar and dental caries that have plagued mankind since we started walking upright. Tired of having a smile that looks like a truck drove through […]
