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
A Guest Post From A Dog
Occasionally we run guest posts. If you’d like to submit one, see our requirements here. Today’s is written by one of the very few submitters capable enough to meet all our criteria, Froofy the Dog. Hi, this is Froofy! My brain can do the following, and not much else: -remember which people I [...]
Carnival of Wealth, Tim Duncan Edition
Why can’t everyone be like the big man? Year after year of quiet excellence, and no desire to share his personality with the world at large. Consistency and aptitude still count for something, right? We could give a damn who wins the NBA title; not that we’re not fans, rather that we have no [...]
Expose Yourself For Fun And Rewards
A company is struggling, and the struggle has no quick resolution. (How) can you profit off this situation? Case in point, and a real-world example. We needed an polyurethane iPad Smart Cover, which is made by Apple and sells for $40. It’s the only accessory we could find that hit the multiple criteria of a) [...]
Preventative Maintenance, Your New Best Friend
WARNING: Never mind the graphic images. Once this gal’s voice enters your head, it ain’t coming out anytime soon. When your humble blogger was a Cub Scout, his pack watched an anti-smoking film that contained his first exposure to tracheotomy. The video featured a guy smoking a cigarette through a hole in his [...]
From the Archives
Warren Buffett is a Hypocrite, Part I
We’ve never done a post on The Oracle of Omaha, which makes us unique among personal finance blogs. We also didn’t misspell his name as “Buffet”, which also makes us unique among personal finance blogs. Yes, he’s the greatest investor of all time. No one disputes this. The problem is when he starts talking about [...]
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. [...]
Want to write for Control Your Cash? Think before asking
Do you take guest posts? Yes, with reservations. We’ve taken one guest post in the history of the site, largely because few people know how to write. We’ve received plenty of submissions, and shot all but that one post down. If you want to share whatever you’re offering with our readers, here are some informal [...]
Thank You, Netflix. And No, That’s Not Sarcasm.
People are never satisfied. 2-year old Netflix replaced standard movie rentals by mail with its famed subscription model in 1999. The model worked almost the same way that it does now: you paid $x a month to rent as many movies as you wanted, but no more than three simultaneously. Those movies were then, in [...]
