5 Best Retirement Calculators (#1 is Free)
Retirement calculators can help us plan and prepare to retire. When we are years away, these online tools can help us determine how much we...
Monarch Money Review – Is It Really the Best Personal Finance App?
If you’re juggling multiple bank accounts and credit cards while trying to align finances with your partner, it might be time to team up...
10 Best Mint Budgeting App Alternatives (Free & Paid)
Mint was one of the first free online budgeting apps when it launched in 2007. I used it when it was first released. Intuit purchased Mint...
3 Empower Alternatives
Empower recently migrated its financial dashboard with its other retirement apps. The migration created significant issues for some users,...
8 Best Net Worth Calculators in 2025 (#1 is Free)
There are plenty of free net worth trackers on the internet. For most of them, you enter the value of your assets and liabilities, and the...
8 Best Quicken Alternatives for 2025 (Free & Paid)
Quicken was once the go-to budgeting tool. I used it when it was first released in the 1980s. Today, it’s been eclipsed by apps that...
Monarch Now Shows You Exactly What You Bought on Amazon, And Categorizes It
Who doesn’t love Amazon? It’s fast, convenient, and a one-stop shop for anything from vitamins to vacuums. But, it can also get messy....
How Unlimited Free Stuff from Amazon Almost Ruined My Retirement
– It all started last winter when I innocently posted a review for a heated vest I had bought on Amazon. I was happy with this fun new...
How to Navigate the Tariff Circus
– Quite accidentally, it looks like we timed our last talk about the stock market pretty darned well. Back in February 2025, the market...
Wow, have you seen the stock market lately?
– And by lately, I mean the past several years or more. The value of the S&P 500 index of stocks, where most of us hopefully have...