by Brian Carr on October 17, 2011
Share I know things have been quiet on Saving Without a Budget lately, and I apologize. That being said, I have a legit reason – I’m now a published author! Over the past month, I’ve been working to get my ebook How to Make a Budget: Simple Budget Techniques and Ways to Save Money up [...]
by Brian Carr on August 25, 2011
Share While driving home from work the other day, I heard a report on the radio about how, for many Americans, retirement will be nothing more than a pipe dream, mostly due to poor financial planning. This is sad to hear because you’d like to think that after putting in 50 years of work, more [...]
by Brian Carr on August 19, 2011
Share This afternoon, my wife and I got a check from our mortgage company for overpayment of our escrow account. Since we weren’t expecting the money, it was certainly a nice surprise, and got us talking about what we might like to do with the money. Getting money you weren’t expecting, like in our case, [...]
by Brian Carr on August 12, 2011
Share Apparently lots of people still don’t trust banks and financial institutions nearly three years after the financial crisis, which, to be perfectly honest, leaves me shaking my head. In an article entitled “Stashing Cash in Tampon Boxes – And Other Sneaky Spots” published on CNNMoney, author Blake Ellis writes about all the weird places [...]