Wow. Spending money feels good. If you’re having a bad day, or haven’t spent money in a while, you tend to feel like splurging. The mere transaction of trading paper money for tangible (or intangible) goods has been proven to release endorphins in the brain. Music even has been proven t...

My junior year of college, I lived in a very old house with 10, yes, 10 of my best friends.  It had old windows, old doors, and I’m pretty sure I saw some mice running around with AARP cards.  Our heating bill during the winter was anywhere from $800-$1000 a month that winter, even when we k...

Planning for college shouldn’t be intimidating, even if you’ve started late. If you’re the type that needs to be scared into doing something, then let yourself get scared. It’s better to be too prepared than not prepared at all. The reality of saving for college is that the e...

The best part about school letting out is that we don’t have to pay for textbooks, and the worst part about school starting up is paying for textbooks. Why are textbooks so expensive? On my campus, we have two book stores: The university book store, and an independent, “off-campus”...