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
Read this and watch your taxes fall
Taxes are too high, but not necessarily as high as you think. This post isn’t going to argue about the merits or weaknesses of our tax system, nor about the obscene amounts of our money that our elected officials spend on our behalf – spending that’s inseparably tied to the taxation and that shows zero […]
Consider Growing A Pair
WARNING: Self-reference coming hard in today’s post. It’s the weakest, foulest word in the English language. It’s the first line of defense for the timid and the recreant. Most of the time, when someone uses it he’s saying, “I don’t have the strength of my convictions. In fact, I might not even have convictions. […]
Another Investopedia Repost
Planning to retire? If you don’t plan to retire, that means you retire to plan. Wait, that makes no sense. Sorry, keeping our metaphors straight is not our strong suit. That would be recycling old posts. One of our favorite Investopedia pieces is the one we wrote about different retirement systems throughout the world. Which […]
Remember To Breathe (228/365)
Today’s guest post is by Trent Hamm of The Simple Dollar. Trent lives in small-town Iowa and loves to give advice that’s both helpful and profound. This is part of a series in which he repeats himself. Not just within the post, which is his signature move, but across several posts. In the past, […]
