We started Control Your Cash for one reason:
Your relationship with money is almost certainly dysfunctional. You don’t know what you don’t know, probably because nobody ever taught you.
Fortunately, you can stop letting money act on you – and actually take charge of it.
We don't give patently obvious advice here, stuff like "spend less than you make." (Wow, what insight.)
Instead, we show you what pitfalls to avoid and what quiet opportunities to take advantage of. Spend a little time here and you’ll no longer have to pretend that you know what the S&P 500 is. Or whether a Roth IRA is better than a traditional one. You’ll understand the why, and the how.
And you’ll find that personal finance is a lot less complicated than you thought.
The Latest
The Best Alternatives to a 401(k)
The well of creativity is barely a trickle at this point. Our muse went to St. Tropez with someone younger and better-looking, and that was months ago. Is she ever coming back? We’ll leave a light on. Spend more time at the gym. Buy more flattering clothes. Vacuum the house once in a while. Damn, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Back from the Dead Edition
If you missed last week’s Carnival of Wealth…well, you weren’t the only one. First, the excuse: we use a couple of hosting services to organize the carnival submissions for us. One of those services has been down for a while now, the other one takes submissions and watches them disappear into the ether. So […]
An Investopedia Repost About Lockouts and Such
From our Investopedia files, a piece about sports labor strife. Which doesn’t pertain to your life unless you’re an athlete, an agent, or maybe a team owner, but it’s an entertaining read. Trust us, we wrote it. Here’s an enticing sample: By 2011, pro football had metamorphosed from popular sport into national obsession. That spring, […]
Carnival of Wealth, Andrew Pohl Edition
That’s the problem with being selective. You accept only the good submissions, or the stupendously awful ones, and pretty soon the number of submitters dwindles to a trickle. Presenting another edition of the Carnival of Wealth, the only personal finance blog carnival worth a damn. Even with only 2 submitters. One of whom is […]
From the Archives
The money’s sitting there. JUST TAKE IT!
Speaking of UC-Santa Barbara, here’s some loser who couldn’t get into a better school. Carol Greider. America’s latest Nobel laureate in physiology/medicine. A few weeks ago we got chided (chiding is a regular occurrence in our world) by the guy in change of a far more prominent personal finance blog that we occasionally contribute to. […]
BOOK REVIEW: One Year Lived
We try not to review books on this site, because most of the requests we get are from authors who range from the awful to the stupendously so. Then Adam Shepard asked us to review his new release,One Year Lived, which comes out Monday. He’s the guy who wrote 2007’s Scratch Beginnings, in which he […]
Stick a Pin in it, It’s Done
Control Hoard Your Cash Cash is a bad investment, right? Not as bad as penny stocks, perhaps, or California muni bonds, but certainly not much better. Besides, can you even call holding cash “investing”? Does it fit the definition of using money to generate potential profitable returns? It can, when deflation happens. Simply spend enough […]
Focus On The Small Picture
In Monday’s Carnival of Wealth, we briefly goofed on Marie at Family Money Values. Her submission frustrated us to the point where we were considering making her our Retard of the Month for November, but a) the Occupy Wall Street crowd deserved it more and b) it doesn’t look good if we give it to a […]