As many of you know I am getting married April 25th 2009. My soon to be wife is just awesome, she is just the best. When it comes to money we are very different, usually when two people are getting married one is a spender and one is a saver. We actually have a different [...]

Since food prices have been going through the roof lately we have decided to plant a larger backyard garden this year. Last year we planted sweet peppers, hot peppers and tomatoes. This year we are planting lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, oregano, basil and broccoli. In previous years we only planting seedlings, this year everything other than [...]

Welcome to the first installment of “Stocks I Like” Segment that will be a regular topic on AutomaticPersonalFinance.com. **Disclaimer** – The information here is for informational purposes only, please do not invest your hard earned money into a stock I highlight here without doing your own research and consult a professional financial consultant or broker. [...]

Personal finance blogs are awesome reading.  Some of my favorite blogs are ones where people are deeply in debt and working to pay it off all while detailing the journey on a blog.  This really puts the personal in personal finance. The one thing I find lacking is they very rarely determine what got them [...]

Last night my fiancee and I were at the grocery store and we actually got near the end of our trek through the store and we realized we spent a lot more than we planned to. True we did buy 4 Rib eye steaks for $25(hey we did have a $1 off coupon). I was [...]

One of the most difficult things to see is when a fairly young person 18-25 gets a large(or large to them) sum of money. For example a 19 year old kid getting $50,000. Now in the grand scheme of things that really is not that much money, but to a broke college kid that is [...]