Most personal finance blogs (this one included) advise you to make sure you save money for most of your needs. Ideally, even a new/user car should be purchased after the money was saved, this would allow you to get the…
Taking a loan is always an important decision and it needs to be carefully considered. A small mistake can get your monthly payments to unbearable values or you’ll pay extra interest, even if you could have paid less. This is…
One of the best ways to build wealth (aside of being careful with your spending and saving money for the ‘rainy days’) is doing some smart investing. This allows you to ‘grow your money’ and should be done as soon…
As you will have probably realized by now, the decision to begin investing your money is not one to be taken lightly. Investments go hand-in-hand with risk, which means you could either grow your cash or lose some, or maybe…
After letting my blog ‘sit’ for quite some months, I decided to get back to working seriously on it and trying to grow it from there. As you can imagine, with little content and almost no activity, the traffic was…
If you want to get the best mortgage rates, the very best thing that you can do is to raise your credit score. A better credit score will allow you to get a lower interest rate on your mortgage even…
Back in January 2013 I presented how the past year has treated us. 2012 was important for me since it allowed me to ‘clear’ out two very important things in my agenda: eye surgery and finishing my car payments. Even…
Most of 2013 on DB was pretty quiet, but in the past few months we had a lot of personal finance articles written here for your enjoyment. Here is a collection of what I consider to be my best work…
So, it’s that time of the year, when we take some time to study our expenses tracking software / apps and the budgets for the entire year, to see how we did when it comes to managing our money. Keeping…
Few days ago I posted about some of the must have WordPress Plugins that really make my blogging easier and today I’d like to talk more about 2 of them, which I came to really love and appreciate: Redirection and…