Budgeting
Cash access: Checking account basics
Checking accounts make your money easy to access and easier to carry with you.
Fighting Boredom: 50 things to do for less than $10
These 10 things will keep you busy on a lazy afternoon without blowing a ton of cash.
Financial Robotics: Automate your money
The days of envelope licking and stamp sticking to pay the bills are gladly behind us, but even managing finances online can be tedious enough to make anyone wish for a household robot with accounting skills.
Running The Border: Travel abroad on a dime
Everyone feels the need to get out there and rub their toes in someone else's lawn – preferably one in a foreign country. Pre-trip investigation and planning can save you some serious guesswork, and hopefully a suitcase-load of cash.
Clothes Shopping and the Cost-Per-Wear Factor
Kayla Byers is a coworker from the sales department and has more fashion sense than several of our editorial staff put together.
Don't Pay Too Much: 10 ways you might be wasting your money
You can justify paying extra for a product if it has value. But these products can cost extra for no apparent reason.
Don't Forget Your Money
Have you ever had one of those awkward moments when someone asks for your address and you don't know how to answer the question?
It's a common situation. Nothing ties us down, we move every year (or sometimes even more frequently), going from school to home to job to job. However, this does make it difficult to get regular, and sometimes very important, snail mail.
It's Good To Be Covered
I finally signed up for renter's insurance. It's long overdue. I've been renting for years without the basic protection. But lately whenever I left the house I started having horrific daydreams of flames burning all of my belongings (the pic is an apartment building that went up not far from brass HQ).
Dropping Deals
I dropped another external hard drive. Suffice it to say that my next hard drive purchase will probably be a laptop drive--something marginally more sturdy. Thank goodness I have an emergency backup for my most important files.
