Thanks for visiting Ultimate Money Blog! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. I’ve always heard the saying “Nobody likes your kids as much as you” which basically means that when they are acting up in a public place, you may think it’s tolerable, but others may just want to choke them. I was thinking about it though, and that truly applies to pretty much everything! Nobody cares about your money as much as you, and nobody cares about your debt as much as you either. Nobody cares about your money as much as you Think about it- retailers aren’t out handing out coupons at the register to help you save money; you’ve got to seek them out yourself. If you don’t protect your money, no one’s going to do it for you. Surely a financial adviser can tell you which funds they think are best for you, but if you don’t feel comfortable with it, then don’t do it. It’s your future, not theirs. They haven’t worked as hard as you have to [...]

Imagine this scenario: you are saving a penny a day, and at the end of the year you’ve saved $3.65 (or $3.66 if it’s a leap year). What is the most creative idea you can come up with to spend your $3.65?

Mr. Money and I are still trying to figure out what we want to do for our anniversary trip.  We’ve been going back and forth between Hawaii, Colorado, or even traveling up to Michigan to go camping.  I thought it would be neat to go back to the place we met and fell in love in Colorado, but it’s like a 19 hour drive from where we live.  That’s a lot of driving! We’ve thought about just going back to Colorado and staying with his mom (she has a huge house) and doing our own thing.  We love Colorado in the fall and it would be a great trip.  However, I don’t want to put all those miles on our car driving out there.  I want our car to last many, many years since I hate having a car payment. It seems almost silly to think about paying to rent a car to drive out there when we have two perfectly (now) operating vehicles that we own.  I’m just thinking though- if it cost us $200 for the week to [...]