I don’t like to forget to do things. I also don’t have the best memory so those 2 personalilty traits clash like money management and Nicholas Cage. Keeping up on credit card payments, savings goals, donation committments, and student loans can be too much for anyone’s brain to remember. That’s why I use Google Calendar [...]
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Yakezie Carnival: Money From Around the World Edition
This week I have the pleasure of hosting the Yakezie Carnival. The Yakezies are a group of up-and-coming personal finance bloggers who are working together to improve one another’s blogs and make some internet friends along the way. I’ve always been interested in how countries handle money, so this week’s carnival will take a look at different [...]
What FF Readers Think About a High School Money Course
Last week I wrote a long overdue post on a topic that means a lot to me, money education in high school. One of the biggest challenges with creating courses about money is differing opinions about what is important for students to learn, and what is best left to be learned on your own. Because [...]
My Curriculum for Money Education in High School
Ever since I started learning about money in the summer of 2008, I’ve been fascinated with the lack of money education in our lives. No one teaches us anything about money, yet, every single person in this world deals with money every day. America’s a nation that repeatedly struggles when it comes to money, but [...]
Book Review: Biography of the Dollar
Without libraries with English books, I’ve been itching for books to read in Japan. Luckily, when I scanned my friend’s bookshelf a couple weeks ago I came across Craig Karmin’s book, Biography of the Dollar: How the Mighty Buck Conquered the World and Why It’s Under Siege. Karmin is a renowned reporter for The Wall [...]
Spend & Save: Where Do You Use Your Money?
Personal finance blogs often dwell on savings, investing, and self-sacrifice for the greater good of your financial life. But when it comes down to it, if you don’t spend your money on the things you love, you’ll go crazy and end up spending $499 on a new dining set at Costco just because you kept [...]
Batch Presents for Savings on Big-Ticket Items
There are a lot of big purchases in our lives – TVs, laptops, phones, iPods, Kindles. A lot of the time we think we can’t live without these items for more than a couple of days – maybe a week at most. Often if they break or wear down, we immediately go out and buy [...]
FF TV Episode #2: Your Financial Family Tree
Knowing what to do with your money isn’t inherently easy. It takes time to learn the steps, the tricks, and the right and wrong way to do things. Sometimes we overlook the fact that a lot of people who are attempting to jumpstart their finances aren’t aware of the financial accounts they should have. In [...]
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Hi, my name's Austin Morgan. I teach English in Japan and write about money for twenty-somethings. Feel free to contact me with any questions and I hope you enjoy the site!
