Adventures in Personal Finance

Your budget is your road map to financial success. In the words of baseball great Yogi Berra, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up some place else.” And that some place else may not be what you had in mind when it’s time to retire.

Products are stacked from floor to ceiling. I’m only 5′2″ and I felt like Thumbelina walking around in there. My first reaction was that I needed to leave warehouse shopping to those who are taller (and who have more storage space).

I spent last weekend at a baseball tournament. We had a two-hour break between games and so I had time to sit and think about how expensive it is to have a kid in sports.

It’s that time of year that brings either joy or sadness to a baseball fan’s heart. Joy if your team is heading toward the playoffs, sadness if you’re already out of contention. I’m a huge baseball fan (Atlanta Braves) and lately I’ve been thinking about the similarities between baseball and money management. Oh, and just for [...]