‘Favorite Money’

Madonna and Guy Ritchie are talking divorce, says AOL Money & Finance.
By the way, is it just me, or does she remind anyone else of that old famous saucy grande dame puppet Madame?
Same high cheek bones, prominent chin, and thin lips. Don’t get me wrong, I love Madonna and her new […]

Are you a savvy spender? Do you want to be one? Take this test, find out, and learn how to improve your spending habits—unless you already mastered the art of savvy spending!
In 2002, I found this quiz at MSN Money and took it with abysmal results. Unfortunately, a few of the answers […]

If you think you have to have a great education in physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, engineering, or anything else to come up with a great new invention, you are mistaken.
Kids as young as five years old have come up with amazingly simple solutions to our everyday problems—or cool new products that are so desirable—that their […]

Why are so many people conflicted about money? We all agree we need some of it. But, can anyone ever be too rich? If so, how much is too much? Or, is money like cars and guns, a fact of life, useful under the right circumstances, and only dangerous in the […]

Suze Orman’s dad was a chicken plucker. I had to stop, rewind, and replay that part of her DVD The Courage To Be Rich: Creating a Life of Material and Spiritual Abundance.
Especially since I thought she said chicken-something-else-that-ends- with-”ucker.” (I’d never heard of a chicken plucker!) I turned to my boyfriend […]

Remember the Three Little Pigs?
They were brothers who each needed to build a house of their own. They had the choice to build their homes out of straw, sticks, or bricks.
The first chose straw, the second chose sticks, and the third chose bricks. Along came the Big Bad Wolf […]

Going to the mall this weekend? Maybe you need to pick up a few things. Or, maybe you just plan to catch the latest movie. But, somehow you come home with bagsful of new stuff anyway. I know. I’ve been there. Many times.
But, it’s not all your fault. […]

I was the ultimate consumer. I loved material things! I learned this from my parents who actually believed the best things in life are the most expensive. I’m not blaming. I’m just explaining. But, what I didn’t learn from them was how to pay for it all.
I bought everything and […]

Why do nice people have such a hard time making and keeping money?
Is it as simple as we don’t charge enough for our services and products, don’t negotiate enough for raises, bonuses, and promotions, and give too much of our hard-earned money to family and friends?
Yes and no.
Yes, nice […]

The most we used to dream about accumulating in terms of wealth was a million dollars. That figure was already too high for us to even imagine, so the thought of wanting more just made us feel bad about being so greedy. But wanting to make unimaginably huge amounts of money is actually […]