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What’s it worth to you?
In a recent interview, we were asked, “how do you keep PearBudget afloat in a world of free apps?” It’s a good question. After all, people using PearBudget are interested in saving money, right? So why would they pay money, when there are free options out there? The short answer is this: the return on […]
Quote from Rachel at Small Notebook
When you don’t give thoughts to money management, then your life becomes all about the money. -Rachel, at Small Notebook
Plan Your Peaceful Christmas (at Simple Mom)
For those of you who celebrate Christmas, hopefully there’s a “Christmas” category in your budget, and hopefully you’ve been setting aside some money for it so it won’t come out of the blue and throw everything out of whack. But for those of you who’ve had to divert funds to other categories, or who weren’t […]
Cooking on a Budget (on Ask MetaFilter)
One of my favorite sites for eclectic advice is Ask MetaFilter. In a span of about 10 minutes, you can get everything from “help me find this book from when I was a kid” to “I’m having this problem with my estranged sister … how do I handle it?” to “help me find movies where […]
A Day in the Life
What’s a day in my life look like? What are the things that, as an entrepreneur, I think about? Those were the questions posed to me by Dr. Ram Ganeshan, operations professor at the Mason School of Business at The College of William and Mary. In Dr. Ganeshan’s blog, Operations Buzz (designed by the great […]
PearBudget on The Early Show!
PearBudget was mentioned this morning on the CBS News program The Early Show! I’ve embedded the video below, but if you want to read the associated piece, it’s here: How to Save Big Bucks at the Supermarket. Special thanks to All You magazine editor Amy Goodman, and especially to PearBudget user Michelle who wrote in […]
PearBudget got a nice write-up!
PearBudget got a nice write-up over at The Cottage Home, a really sweet blog about cooking, sewing, parenting, and other elements of domestic life. Here’s what Lindsay said in her post Budgeting Made Simple: It’s amazing how much more conscientious I am about spending when I know I am going to have to enter it […]
Good article from Leo of Zen Habits
Leo, of Zen Habits, has a really good article/interview/guest-post-thingy at the Wage Slave Escape Manual: The 7 secrets of shedding debt & becoming a money Zen master. I’m not a big fan of the article’s title, and I fundamentally disagree with any article’s claim that “knowing these {number} secrets will make personal finance easy for […]
Some money trivia for you
Some money trivia for you: The first year the dollar sign ($) was stamped on United States coinage was 2007! (source)