Housewives blog goes to carnival

Oh my gosh, I’m so excited I could just go and flip a table.

My blog titled “‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ credit card tales of trouble” about the broke but fabulous RHNJ co-star Teresa Giudice was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Beating Broke.

Teresa and her husband are dealing with some nasty credit card debt right now. They’ve filed for bankruptcy but potentially face more legal troubles for concealing assets and lying under oath. Check out ..read more

Housewives blog goes to carnival

Oh my gosh, I’m so excited I could just go and flip a table.

My blog titled “‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ credit card tales of trouble” about the broke but fabulous RHNJ co-star Teresa Giudice was included in the Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by Beating Broke.

Teresa and her husband are dealing with some nasty credit card debt right now. They’ve filed for bankruptcy but potentially face more legal troubles for concealing assets and lying under oath. Check out ..read more

Emily’s list: Ownership stake edition

I just read something on CNN that shocked me. When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was a mere 18-year-old college student at Harvard, he allegedly granted a businessman an ownership stake in what was then a small online side-project. Now it’s a billion-dollar Internet company, and New Yorker Paul Ceglia is trying to claim what he says is rightfully his.

Ceglia claims that he hired Zuckerberg in 2003 to work on two business ventures, one of which was “designed to ..read more

"Falling FICO credit scores" blog gets hot and nerdy

It’s not unusual for the summertime to bring high temperatures. But with thermometer readings in the northeast reaching into 90s and beyond over recent weeks, blog carnival host NerdWallet made “gettin’ hot in here” the theme of the latest Carnival of Personal Finance.

Since my latest blog post –entitled “The latest economic casualty? Falling FICO credit scores” — was included in the Carnival of PF, it’s fair to say that post is now officially both hot and nerdy. That blog ..read more

Emily’s list: iPhone death grip edition

A few weeks ago, I blogged that I was dying to get an iPhone 4, but was doing everything in my power to resist. Despite the new features I so desired, I concluded that I just didn’t need one. Shortly after that, once the phones were in stock, I called AT&T to see if I qualified for an upgrade. I learned that even as a current AT&T customer, it would still cost a whopping $199. Ouch. I wavered back and forth, and ..read more

Emily’s list: Living off the land edition

I’m a city girl, born and raised in Houston. I have spent the past seven years in Austin, a smaller but still lively city where there is always some major event, festival or concert happening. Whenever I drive back home to Houston, I pass by dozens of itty bitty rural towns, and many homes along the highway clearly not part of any city. Some of the houses are many miles from a gas station or grocery store. To me, this ..read more

American Express Moves past Card Art with Zync Charge Card

As more credit card issuers give the option for its cardholders to choose what is shown on the front of their plastic, it seems that one issuer has decided to do something a little different. That issuer is American Express and they have decided to do this with one of its newest credit cards available; the Zync Charge Card. With Zync, cardholders are given the ability to receive only the rewards and features they want; giving its cardholders more control ..read more

Emily’s list: Mother’s Day edition

Sunday is Mother’s Day. Did that catch any of you stragglers off guard?

Our parents are pivotal in how we learn about money and finance. We observe their spending habits, attitudes and values about money, and we often carry that to adulthood. Some of us are gifted with very financially savvy parents, while others aren’t as lucky. One of the many joys of life is becoming financially independent and discovering exactly how you and your parents differ on issues like ..read more

Emily’s list: Financial reform edition

President Obama has had it with Wall Street’s shaky (and often unethical) financial practices that led us to (and perhaps kept us in) a crippling recession. His administration is currently pushing a Wall Street reform bill that will help overhaul the American financial system. After a filibuster and several other stalls from Republicans, the Senate unanimously agreed on Wednesday to begin a public debate on this. Obama says he hopes this reform bill passes quickly, and so do I.      ..read more

Emily’s list: Eyjafjallajokull edition

Unless you’ve been in a coma for the past week, you know that a volcanic explosion in Iceland on April 14 rocked Europe. Flights were grounded for nearly a week in more than 20 countries, leaving countless travelers across the globe stranded, many of whom had to sleep on cots at airports and live on a diet of airport food while running up their credit cards.

Those with travel insurance fared better than those without, but it was a pickle for ..read more

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