Daily Worths's Article The Power of 1%

I have a subscription to the Daily Worth's website so I get daily e-mails from them on money matters. I was reading the e-mail they sent on the power of 1% and thought it would be an interesting article to share with you. Bascially, the premise of the article is that by increasing the amount you save by 1% per year you can significantly increse your nest egg. I found this particularly interesting because it takes so little to grow your savings yet so many people don't save or consider the impact of a small savings. The e-mail linked to a great tool, the New York Times Savings Calculator: The big difference a single percentage point makes. Try it out and comment on your progress.

Save Energy, Save Money, Do Good

Everyone knows that one way to save money is to monitor your consumption now this can be done easily with Google PowerMeter. Google PowerMeter is a free energy monitoring tool that works with smart meters and other energy devices and with energy companies (currently limited but will be expanding) to monitor and track your consumption. It has functions to track consumption over time, predict energy costs, and set energy budgets. It's easy enough to be told to monitor our consumption but practically speaking it helps to have a tool like Google PowerMeter.

Free downloadable E-Book: Everything You Need to Know about Finance in One Page

I just found a really great personal finance book "Everything You Need to Know About Personal Finance in One Page" click the title so you always have access to the newest edition.

Budgets Budgets Everywhere

I've been reading a lot about different types of budgets lately and found some really useful blog posts that look at budgeting in unique ways. Budgeting and managing your money is necessary but it doesn't have to be boring. Remeber your organizing your money plans so that you have the money to do what you want when you want but first you have to do what you have to do in order to do what you want to do. The first article is about thinking about what's important to you and setting priorities because until you know that a budget won't be useful. The other three articles are about different types of budgets.

Article 1: The 90-Day Pre-Budget
Article 2: The Save to spend budget
Article 3: Power to the mini budget
Article 4: 3-minute summer budget

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