A few years ago, there was a very widely circulated statistic from the National Association of Home Builders about the increase in home sizes over the last sixty years. According to their numbers, the average American home grew from 983 square feet in 1950 to 2,434 square feet in 2005.
I grew up [...]

On January 21st I wrote a review of the Nuru personal finance cards I received from Nuru Planet.  At the end of the review I announced that I would be giving them away to one lucky commentator.
I received comments from 16 different people.  I visited random.org and had it generate a random number to select [...]

The best tax software for your tax return depends on a variety of factors but the big three of tax prep software (Turbo Tax, Tax Act, and Tax Cut) remain some of the best choices this year. They’ve all been around for a while so they have a lot of experience handling new tax rules and finding [...]

Each Monday, The Simple Dollar opens up the reader mailbags and answers ten to twenty simple questions offered up by the readers on personal finance topics and many other things. Got a question? Ask it in the comments. You might also enjoy the archive of earlier reader mailbags.
As usual, we’ll start things off with a [...]