Freelance Finance

Personal finance for freelancers is, essentially, what this site is about. But in truth, “freelance” is much too limiting a word for the audience that this site seeks to serve. It offers personal finance musings (and, we’d like to think, some useful advice) to anyone who does not have the financial advantage of a salary [...]

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How to save money fast…10 ways to get out of debt now…How to become a millionaire….and so on and so forth and blah, blah, ad nauseum, BLAH. With all of this free information available about personal finance, you’d think that Americans would be walking around in stellar financial shape. But alas, mon frere, you would [...]

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Paying yourself first is the cardinal rule of all income-earners, whether you are a self-employed freelancer or not. As you may have noticed, Mire and I like to call this feeding the monkey. Suppose you decide to save 15 percent of your income. Save it as follows: 10 percent to a retirement account, and 5 [...]

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Here’s an item to be filed under the heading, “too little, too late”:
The lame duck calls a quackin’ from Washington D.C. about an economic stimulus package.
For the good of the American people.
For the hard-working taxpayers.
Riiiight.

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An innocent freelancer decides to confront her mounting debt. And she writes about it in the “pages” of a well-known online magazine. What happens? In two days, Sarah Hepola’s article on Salon racks up 195 comments, mostly from very angry people who, among other things, mock her for having lower debt than they do, for [...]

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