If you ever read any other personal finance blogs other than mine (and you don't, do you?). you would find that a common theme is how to live frugally, especially among the many twentysomething...

So many interesting things to read these days, listed randomly: Robert Kiyosaki on what he learned by working with Donald Trump: I know many people don't like Donald because he comes across as a...

Last year my wife and I had to do a little belt-tightening, and we found that one of our largest line items was gift buying. With small children, the gift buying has gone up exponentially. Not only do...

Soon enough, we'll all have HDTVs, whether we want them or not. Those of us that don't care about HDTV will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming to it, just as many of us ended up...

Every year David Finkel and Diane Kennedy convince a handful of people that it would be a good idea to pay $30,000 a piece to come to Maui and learn how to become millionaires. Well, actually...

The U.S. Mint is pushing the dollar coin again, this time with the faces of presidents, with new images coming out on a rolling basis, the way they did with the popular state quarters. I think the...

Day after Thanksgiving and happiness abounds... ProBargainHunter: ...black friday shopping is a big scam. Stores publish very limited quantity hot deals to lure in shoppers and those deals are all...

Inside the walls of Corporate America (and in financial blogging circles), there are a lot of frustrated entertainers. Sure we might work as, oh I don't know, marketing directors for Bank of...

I just got off the phone with Jason Knight, the CEO of a startup called Wesabe, which is a financial site that uses the wisdom of crowds to help you get more bang for your buck. I know you're...

From Walter Updegrave's Money mag advice column: Question: My wife and I are self-employed. In addition to a mortgage of just under $400,000, we have a home equity line of credit on which...

One of the more popular topics for finance writers to discuss is credit scores. Many appear obsessed with these numbers that FICO and others create based on an oh-so-secret formula and then sell to...

Growing up I always thought it was bad to be "overextended." I remember my parents saying of a neighbor, "he's overextended," meaning that the neighbor had bought so many...

Another installment in our ongoing series on Warren Buffett, in which we investigate Buffett's yearly letters to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders for nuggets of wisdom. This installment:...

Here you see nancy Pelosi, who will become Speaker of the House when the Dems take over Washington in January. Sure there's still that pesky George W. Bush at the top of the heap, but...

Thoughts from The Others (that's a shout out to you Lost fans): My Open Wallet: "So then of course I wanted to dump the dollar coins right away, but I kept wondering how. I guess it was a...

Today we have Justin joining us here at Money Dumbos for the first time. I hope you'll all welcome Justin and help him make his way to the first step in our twelve-step program. Can we all tell...

Got an e-mail last week about a new retirement tool from nationwide insurance and thought I'd give it a try and pass it along if you're interested. The tool is called the RetirAbility Check...

What's the biggest threat to your long-term financial outlook? I could easily make the case that it's paying for health care. Each year throngs of uninsured people go bankrupt due to their...