Reflections: Managing our finances the old-fashioned way 8 Articles

by Thomas Schaffer

HOME IS WHERE THE MONEY IS When most people are looking for extra money, they try to figure out how to get more. They work overtime, get a part time job, look into a money making venture and even buy lottery tickets. ...read more

by Diane Palmer

When I was younger, I used to see my mom going into her dresser and organize envelopes. I asked her one day what she was doing, and she said "her finances". When my dad and her got paid, she used to take out the cash s...read more

by Angela S. Young

In the case of most people, managing credit and debt is the ideal, but they fall short. We learn about basic math in school, but we seldom really learn to understand debt, credit and the dangers of both. In today's worl...read more

by Anthony Megna

Cash. That is the only word you really need to know. That is the way it was in the old days. Sure, you could go to the corner grocer and get extended credit if he or she knew you. But you had better pay or you might ge...read more

by Linda C. Turman

I might be giving my age away, though I remember old school of doing ones finances. I'm talking way before credit and credit cards came to our knowledge. I remember someone saying to me that they heard somewhere, less pape...read more

by Tami Roxanne Barker Norman

My grandmother was deffinently my inspiration all through my 31 year old life, and she was deffinently one of the wises people I've ever met in this life. Granny was full of knowlege and advice that was and still is helpfu...read more

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by Robert Hunter

For the past three decades our culture has become one defined by instant gratification. Self-discipline, as it relates to spending and saving, is not practiced in the U.S. like in years past. People join the Armed Forces...read more

by Hal Lillywhite

The financial bondage debt brings can cause serious personal and family problems. Nobody wants to always be wondering if they can make the next payment, or if the next phone call will be from a collection agency. The fol...read more