An Easy Trick To Avoid Making Nickel and Dime Purchases
We recently asked on the PearBudget page at Facebook what topics you’d like us to write about, and one of the questions posed was “How do you resist nickel-and-dime purchases?” We thought that’d be a great one to tackle first. Ultimately, avoiding nickel-and-dime purchases is about knowing what you need, knowing what you want and […]
A Safe Conversation Starter for the Thanksgiving Dinner Table
photo by Greg Carley Thanksgiving is actually my favorite holiday, mainly because it’s a recognized day for family and friends to come together and spend time catching up and being with one another, but it hasn’t become commercialized the way that the others have. And since it’s so close to Christmas and Halloween, I’m hoping […]
Making PearBudget better for you (and how upgrading your browser will help!)
I’ll get into the meat of the post in a second, but the important takeaway is this: we want you to have the best internet experience possible (not just at PearBudget, but everywhere!). If you haven’t upgraded your browser in a while, we want to help you do that! Visit What Browser for an easy […]
How to Refinance Your Home (over at Simple Mom)
I wrote a post over at SimpleMom on how to refinance your home. If you can answer “yes” to the following questions … Have you had your mortgage for less than 10 years? Are you currently paying more than around 5.5% in interest? Are you going to be in your house for more than two […]
Having Trouble Logging in On the iPhone?
We’ve had a lot of e-mails recently from users who’ve had trouble getting in to their PearBudget accounts on their iPhones. “I entered my password,” they write, “and it wouldn’t let me in. What’s going on?” Ack. That’s terrible! Nobody wants to be cut off from their account. Weirdly, though, this isn’t a bug with […]
If that didn’t answer your question, get in touch with us by e-mail, at help@pearbudget.com.
Just A Quick Update on the 2012 Transition
Update to below post: The 2012 page is now available: https://pearbudget.com/set_up_2012 We apologize for the delay! —————————————— We know 2012 is coming down the road pretty quickly. We just wanted to give a quick note that we’re working on the “transition to 2012” page, and that we hope to have it up very soon. It’ll […]
Help Save Our Friend’s Life
This post isn’t really about budgeting, but we hope you understand. We need your help. A good friend of ours, Amit Gupta, has a very serious case of Leukemia. If he doesn’t find a bone marrow match and get a transplant soon, he will die. And “soon” isn’t, like, “some time in the next year.” […]
Saving for College?
Hey, friends! I wanted to share a post I wrote last week over at Simple Mom. If you have kids and are thinking about saving for college, it might be a good one to check out. 529s and ESAs — The Nitty-Gritty of Saving for College.
How to Teach Your Kids About Money
I loved this piece on teaching kids about money: My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine. While I don’t know that it’s a super-practical method for most people, it seems like a great way to teach things like how to invest your money, how to handle lean times, how to handle times of […]
A New Calendar, and Text Inputs for International Users
We love our international users. We’ve been sad, then, that they’ve had a second-rate date input option for when they needed to enter receipts. If you never saw the “Enter a New Receipt” page that international users saw, you’re pretty lucky. It had those dropdown boxes for the day, and month, and year, and it […]