One Caveman’s Financial Journey

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Yesterday, I wrote about my little container garden that I’m housing on my deck.  Already I have a bunch of tomatoes growing and I think I found 3 very small cucumbers starting to sprout from the vines.  The joy of growing some of my own food got me thinking about how I [...]

With food prices climbing almost daily, more and more people are turning to home-grown vegetables and herbs to reduce their overall food budgets. It’s a great idea, too; starting your own garden costs relatively little compared to the gains you’ll reap and most of your expense comes in the form of sweat while tending your [...]

This week, I decided to get creative and put together a “Devil’s Advocate”-style series that highlighted some of the extreme opinions about credit cards and had the two sides face off using my voice as their medium.  I think it went fairly well and I even learned a bit on the way by putting together [...]

This is the third installment of Credit Perspectives. Please visit the introductory post for the other perspectives provided in the rest of the series.
The idea of credit has been around since before money was invented, but the invention of the credit card in the 1950s allowed our economy to grow in new and previously-unimagined [...]