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.
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Of Course You Should Take “No” For An Answer
Dashing young men have all the advantages. Word association time. Self-help book. Go. 68% of you said Napoleon Hill’s Think And Grow Rich, which is close enough to 100% for our purposes. It’s the classic of the genre, if not its progenitor. Even if you haven’t read it, you’ve subconsciously committed its most famous [...]
Carnival of Wealth, Findlay Toyota Are Filthy Cretins Edition
That’s Rich Abajian, general manager of Findlay Toyota, which is a dealership near CYC headquarters. Last week a CYC acquaintance – a septuagenarian lady – had occasion to involuntarily do business with them. This is what happened. The lady in question drives a 2002 Camry, which she keeps in impeccable condition and barely drives. [...]
The Control Your Cash Open-Book Quiz, Part I
Presenting the Control Your Cash Open-Book Quiz, complete with answers. For each of our next 3 posts (excluding Monday’s upcoming Carnival of Wealth), we’re going to put you in a fictional but plausible financial scenario. If you can figure out what steps you should take, then congratulations. You’ve got this stuff figured out and should [...]
Carnival of Wealth, “Native American” Edition
It must be that time of year again. The Washington Redskins are being criticized for their allegedly offensive nickname. “Why, we white (and to a lesser extent, other-colored) people who have appointed ourselves the arbiters of propriety find fault with this. Although it’s a literal description of pigmentation, ‘Redskin’ must change.” The arguments on either [...]
From the Archives
Welcome ProBlogger Readers (reprise)
Note 1: Yes, we posted this a couple of weeks ago. It still applies. Note 2: If you don’t read ProBlogger and are wondering what we’re talking about, this. And you should read ProBlogger, because it kicks. Welcome to the only personal finance site that’s committed to helping you build wealth, if you’re willing to meet us halfway. Therefore, [...]
A Big Hand For The Idiots
In 2009, Congress passed the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act, the latest in a series of clever acronyms to become law. (Which, at 4 letters, is brief as these acronyms go. It’s all but inconceivable that anything will ever beat the 10-letter Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept [...]
If We’re Doing Too Many Posts About Whiny Babies, Please Let Us Know
We don’t shill for corporate products here on Control Your Cash, excluding the wonderful sponsors whose ads you can scroll down and see. (That’s VRBO.com, everyone! For your next vacation, rent someone’s home and eliminate the middleman!) And Amazon. Our relationship with the Kindle is equivalent to Peter King’s with Brett Favre, except Favre [...]
Paper or plastic?
Would you be interested in an investment that pays 14.29%? You can get in for as little as a dollar, but the average investor puts in $6775. You’ve had a fraction of a second to decide, but you can’t possibly still be thinking about it. 14.29%. This investment pays 7.8 times the highest available rate [...]
