Archive for December, 2008
Get A Raise - Five Steps
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008You think it’s time that you get a raise from your employer, but how do you go about it? Do it wrong and you may make things even worse. How do you do it right? Try the following five-step process.
1. Make sure you deserve the raise.
It may seem too obvious to say that you should […]
How To Make Money
Sunday, December 28th, 2008If you are like most people, when you think about how to make money, you think about the specific jobs, businesses or schemes that will bring in the cash. But while there are many ways to make it, all these ways have their examples of success and failure. Why do some fail at the same […]
Used Car Finance - Lessons For Making Money
Saturday, December 27th, 2008You might think that used car finance simple involves a dealer, a bank or other lender, and a down payment on the part of the buyer. That is how it works in some cases, but it gets much more creative than that. Let’s look at a real life example, and see what lessons can be […]
How To Buy A Used Car For Less
Saturday, December 27th, 2008You buy a used car to save money, and there are two basic ways to do that. It isn’t just that you pay less to buy initially. The research shows a four-year-old car can cost 40% less over its lifetime. That’s including the costs of gas, oil, repairs, insurance - everything. This is why almost […]
Frugality - Three Quick Lessons
Saturday, December 27th, 2008What is frugality? The dictionary definition of frugal: “Practicing or marked by economy, as in the expenditure of money or the use of material resources.” People think of it as simply being “cheap,” in the fashion of Ebeneezer Scrooge. I see it as the practice of getting the most for one’s money, without giving up […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Saturday, December 27th, 2008Millions of families are having a difficult time in todays economy, and with mortgage payments increasing those families are having to decide between saving their homes or saving themselves. The latter deteriorates your credit and will expose you to a possible foreclosure. So the burning question when faced with this dilemma is “Should I stay […]
