Many popular personal finance ‘gurus’ suggest maintaining an emergency fund with enough money to cover 6 months worth of expenses. I thought it might be interesting to see what my readers thought about this advice. If you are reading this post in a feed-reader, you will need to click through in order to leave a comment and vote in the…
Category: Polls
Reader Poll Results – Are You Debt Free?
Here are the results from last month’s poll – Are You Debt Free? Number of votes – 590 57% of voters are ‘working on it’. If you add both “yes” categories together, 40% of voters are either debt free with a mortgage, or debt free without a mortgage! Awesome. (3% of voters are not focused on debt reduction…) I also…
Are You Hiding Debt From Your Spouse? Yikes! Suze Orman On The Oprah Show
Did you happen to see Oprah today? (I rarely watch her show – but my wife was watching and she called today’s show to my attention.) Oprah interviewed a woman who had hidden – wait for it – more than $50,000 in debt from her husband. (I was going to write an article about the show, but Dedicated to Financial…