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  No, no, no, no, no. 58,000 times, no. Because we haven’t made fun of enough of these undifferentiated debt bloggers yet. So here’s another one! Lindsey Thurston at Cents & Sensibility. Th...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2013/08/30/augusts-financial-retard-of-the-month-is-a-good-one/

  Of course, it already is unnecessary, but try telling that to the liberal arts majors who seem to be providing most of the vocal power for the latest rallying cry/hashtag. No less formidable a...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2013/08/23/makecollegeunnecessary/

      By not incurring any. Fine, 4 words probably don’t constitute a regulation blog post. But there’s got to be something we can do to distinguish ourselves from (and discourage you from...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2013/05/31/how-we-paid-off-0-in-credit-card-debt/

Not you, dear reader, unless you have the same attitude toward debt that today’s protagonist does. A little backstory: Almost 3 years ago, we ran a post on the anonymous woman who runs a blog c...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2013/03/22/just-stop-youre-going-to-be-poor-forever/

    These never get old, do they? We could run with one of these for our (Financial) Retard of the Month, every month, until the sun burns itself out. We’d never exhaust the supply. The Indeb...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2013/03/01/februarys-financial-retard-of-the-month/

Flashback. One of our rare first-person anecdotes, but one general enough that you can apply it to your own situation. While studying in college (mathematics, not some useless liberal art), your ...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2012/11/16/feudalism-is-dead/

    We’re going to go an entire week without writing about what a waste a college education (almost always) is. Don’t worry, we’ll beat that drum again soon enough, probably next Wednesda...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2012/06/22/control-your-cashs-6-axioms-for-building-wealth-and-thus-saving-you-the-trouble-of-buying-our-book/

Take a vacation. You earned it! You need to get away. You also need to spend less than you earn and invest the difference, but Carnival Cruise Lines doesn’t stop at the Port of Personal Respons...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2012/06/15/how-to-stay-poor-in-however-many-easy-steps/

WARNING: Never mind the graphic images. Once this gal’s voice enters your head, it ain’t coming out anytime soon.   When your humble blogger was a Cub Scout, his pack watched an anti-smoking...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2012/05/09/preventative-maintenance-your-new-best-friend/

(Note: We deliberately waited a couple of weeks for this, hoping the hullabaloo would have subsided. It hasn’t. Also, even though we still have a few more posts scheduled for January, you can c...

https://www.controlyourcash.com/2012/01/25/our-appearance-on-the-suze-orman-show/