Urging You To Learn About Money

First of all I want state that I have much to learn about money myself. I hate to admit it, but I was a loan officer living and working in Los Angeles for a decade and I was completely ignorant in many disciplines in personal financing.

You may think this is strange, but if you have ever worked at a bank you would know how compartmentalized banks can be, and understand that those in the banking industry can be sadly inept when it comes to handling their own finances.

When I first started writing on CLF I was very excited to be contributing to a team effort and being part of a good team of experienced finance writers. However, I have been pleasantly exposed to some of the other writers on the Internet who are consistently contributing to the conversation.

Because our theme here is based around the practice of borrowing money, and leveraging money, we are seeing traffic from a lot of people trying to borrow money when they are in dire straits. It has been heartbreaking to see what people are actually typing into the search engines – searches like; “help! desperate for a bad credit personal loan because of divorce”. Sometimes it’s medical bills or their home burnt down without insurance. Sometimes it’s people struggling still in New Orleans from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

In some cases people are victims of plain bad luck, and in other cases people don’t have any kind of knowledge regarding how to manage their money. If you are one of the people in the latter example, you can use some of these free online resources to learn about money and personal financing.

I remember a time not long ago when the only way to read about personal financing was to read books on the subject, and most people wouldn’t invest in a book about money management. Those times have changed because of the Internet and now you can learn about personal money management free of charge. This is exciting to me.

As part of my voluntary involvement at California Loan Find I visit other money management blogs and take part in their discussions. I like that even more that writing my own posts sometimes, and I would like to list just a few of the blogs that I have been visiting and reading. You can learn from these writers, and I hope you spend some time on their blogs.

Make comments and take part in the discussion to get the most out of your experience. You can learn so many ways to get your personal financing under control. Try and keep an open mind as you read because you will be exposed to some really good advice – and you will be asking yourself, “wow, I’ve never thought of doing that, or “I never thought of it that way”.

I also encourage you find a good blog feed reader, and add some of their RSS feeds to your brand new RSS feed reader. This way you can stay up to date and keep your education going.

I would like to list some personal financing blogs for you to discover, read, and maybe even become an active participant. Don’t be afraid to ask questions because there is no such thing as a stupid or embarrassing question. Furthermore, you will find that the writers and readers are generally kind.

So here goes – my first list of great personal financing blogs. There are so many that I won’t list them all here – just ten for now. I hope to get around to all of them over the time though. I have linked to some of their latest posts of interest.

Great Places To Learn About Money Management

1. What To Do When Relatives Ask For Loans – this piece is excellent and I read it on the Free Money Finance blog. Take special note that they are referencing another resource on the same subject where you can read even more on the subject.

2. Good Time To Think About Refinancing Your Mortgage: I might save $50,000! – this is on the My Money Blog.

3. Listening to the Sage Financial Advice of my Grandmother – this is on the Financial Hack blog and it has some beautiful thoughts and was written by “Beks”

4. Don’t Tell Me Your Money Problems – written by David Mitchell at PFAdvice.com – the sad reality of people venting their financial problems.

5. X Ways To Save Money With Your Credit Card - this is all about what the title says and it was written by Marcel and posted on Financial Dominance

6. Applying For a Credit Card – The Credit Card Bill of Rights – this reveals some of the new laws on the books to protect consumers in the United States, and a lot more. Another good blog called the Digeratilife.

7. Five Tricks I Used to Pay Off My Credit Card – this was written by Stephanie at Poorer Than You. There is a lot of good information for college students worth reading.

8. – When Is It Ok To Spend a Little? – this was written by Nicole over at The Budgeting Babe which is a Blogger blog, which is a great place for you to start your own blog for free and with ease.

9. – 5 Tips To Help Your Bank Account Survive the Holiday Season in Uncertain Economic Times - this was written at 22Dollars. Very good writer here just like the others in my first list of personal finance writers.

10 – Store-Brand Grocery Items are 74% Cheaper Than Name-Brand – this is a perfect example of another good writer than give you tips on how to save money on a daily, weekly, monthly and yearly basis.

Happy reading. I encourage you to read all of these article and browse around their blogs for scads of good information. I will post ten more when the mood arises.