According to irs.gov, there are volunteers at certain organizations that will give free tax preparation to those with income less than $39,000, the elderly, and military personnel and their families. The three organizations offering this service are:
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program (VITA)
Tax Counseling for the Elderly (TCE)
Armed Forces Tax Council (AFTC)
More info can be […]

Might Bargain Hunter gives us 16 ways being disorganized costs you money. Most of us can relate to at least one of these. Not only can being disorganized cost you money, but it can cause stress too.

For those of you who work in the office, Stuart Levine, author of Cut to the Chase—and 99 Other Rules to Liberate Yourself and Gain Back the Gift of Time and featured on the Today show, offers an excerpt from his book titled, “Eight Ways to Save Time at The Office. How could you […]

On the famous (infamous?) Mad Money show with Jim Cramer the best growth stock of 2007 was announced. The Cramer camp likes the NYSE (ticker: NYX) because:

they are replacing their traders with computers, including a removal of 500 people of their payroll in November.
Sarbox (Sarbanes Oxley) is “softening” and will allow more ADRs. […]

Get Rich Slowly has compiled a list of personal finance spreadsheets. This is a pretty good list and as the author points out, if you search the web you get a lot of crap until you find some good spreadsheets.
If you are looking for some spreadsheets to do a little planning of […]

Manage-Money.com provides: 25 Original Ways To Spend Your Money. It’s not your normal list of ways to save money. These are unique and interesting to spend your money.
My top five from this list are:
1) Take 6 months off work and do nothing.
2) Learn a language by total immersion in a foreign country for […]

Merriman Capital provides a great article on finding the best risk versus reward profile for each individual investor. This is a very well thought out article on how figure out your personal tradeoff between risk or reward when it comes to investing. Merriman Capital, also has a pretty decent podcast (as long as […]

I have to disagree with Matt Krantz of the USA Today. In his reader Q and A titled, “Six stocks? No, you are not diversified.”, he explains to his reader that he does not think owning six stocks in different sectors means you are diversified. In general, I get the point he is […]

Warren Buffett will begin to give 85% of his holdings in Berkshire Hathaway to philanthropic endeavors beginning in July. The biggest winner, getting approximately $30 billiion will be the Gates Foundation, the private foundation of Melinda and Bill Gates. The Gates family has been good friends with Buffett since the early 1990s.
Wouldn’t you […]

Personal Finance Advice, unveils the “Commute Helper”. You have got to read this. What an amazing, but somewhat scary job. Jump in a car with a stranger, and get paid to sit there so that the driver can get into the carpool lane and cruise to work. At $200 a day, […]