Where’s Da Money? – Rethinking My Online Income System
Where IS all the money at? Lately what’s been on my mind is all the whirlwind of activity within the personal finance blogging world. We’ve got 1) Google threatening more algorithm updates, 2) some...
View ArticleWho is the Best IRA Provider When You Don’t Have Much Money to Open an Account?
This post was a great suggestion from Alexa over at Single Moms Income. If you have a topic you’d like me to write about on My Money Design, please feel free to comment or send me an email. Read...
View ArticleBuilding My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 3
It’s been only 3 months now since I really started to crank things into high gear and focus on developing my niche website: iravs401central.com. For anyone who wants some background, you can read...
View ArticleTired of Winter, The A to Z of Saving Money, and a Giveaway
Who else is tired of the Winter weather? If you live anywhere near me (east), then you’re probably also over all this snow and cold that just continues to dump on us every day. We were watching the...
View ArticleLearn How to Manage Money Better – Like a Large Company CFO
Why do we struggle when it comes to handling our money? Some of us live check to check and barely save nothing. Others of us do okay. But then we never take full advantage of what’s out there to...
View ArticleHappy Easter Weekend – Plus Blog Updates
Is everyone ready for for a happy Easter weekend? I’m thankful for the short work week, but we’re going to need every minute of it. There’s going to be all kinds of driving around and visiting with...
View ArticleReader Debate – Would You Borrow Money to Invest in Stocks?
I wanted to try something different on My Money Design and throw a question out to my readers to debate. I’m very interested to see what the outcome will be. The inspiration for this topic comes from...
View ArticleBuilding My Money Earning Sites – Niche Website Update Part 4
When last we left, the latest of my money earning sites seemed to be lost in the desolate wastelands of ~ No. 300 in the Google search results. No one was ever going to find my website, and it was...
View ArticleThe House is Painted – Plus Blog Updates
Finally! Yet another improvement is complete and the house is painted. For pretty much this whole week the inside of our home looks like it went into foreclosure. All our stuff was off the walls,...
View ArticleHow to Increase PageRank, Get Found Through Google, and Make Some Money!
If you’ve had a website for any length of time, then you’re probably already aware that every 3 months or so Google will give you “grade” called a PageRank. Your PageRank is simply a score of how...
View ArticleUsing the Dividend Payout Ratio to Help Evaluate Stocks
In this month’s issue of Money Magazine, I came across an article entitled “When the Wilder Ride is Worth It”. The article was addressing how sometimes a company’s stock can be a better prospect for...
View ArticleWeekend Wind Down 4-13-2013
It’s been a while since I used the “Weekend Wind Down” title for my weekend posts, but unfortunately my jar of originality is running pretty low. I hate to be really dull, but this week was all work,...
View ArticleWhen Can I Retire – It All Depends On How Badly You Want To!
When it comes to planning for retirement, people both young and old always ask the same simple question: When can I retire? It’s a seemingly harmless question, but it is also one that can be ambiguous...
View ArticleStupid Car Repairs
Talk about kicking a guy while he’s down … Not only was it another stressful week with work, but we also got hit in the wallet with one of the worst kind of expenses: Car repairs. I’m not talking...
View ArticleAnother Reason Why You Need Emergency Money – For Stupid Car Repairs
If you think that having $1,000 or so in your emergency fund is going to cut it, think again! I’m normally not a huge promoter of this topic, but over the last 2 weeks, I’ve had to dip into my stash...
View ArticleMovie Time, Car Story Conclusion, and Favorite Posts
Sometimes when you have a hard week at work, the only thing you look forward to is getting home to spend a quiet evening with your spouse. Not going out or painting the town. Just curling up together...
View ArticleThe Pension vs 401k – The 401k Did Not Kill Retirement
Every now and again when I read through the headlines on my favorite money news sites, I see the same desperate-for-attention headlines proclaiming that “retirement is dead” and that we basically have...
View ArticleA Ponzi Scheme Example – An Illustrated Demonstration of How One Works
Over the last few years the name “Bernie Madoff” and the term “Ponzi Scheme” have been used almost interchangeably. Obviously we all know that this man was a crook and that he committed a very serious...
View ArticleMORE Stupid Car Repairs – I Can’t Make This Stuff Up!
So if you’re wondering why my regular Weekend post is going up so late, it’s because I was at … the “stealer”-ship yet again for MORE stupid car repairs! Yes … again! Even after draining our emergency...
View ArticleMy Dividend Stock Portfolio Update – May 2013
What a wild ride the last 4 months have been! It’s been a while since I’ve done a dividend stock portfolio update, and I thought this would be a great time to report (i.e. celebrate) my earnings. To...
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