A-Train Finance

As a follow up to my ‘living within your means’ post, I thought I’d discuss a few things that the ‘cheap factor’ should not be applied to. It’s not the best idea to get the cheapest of everything, and here are a few of those things (in no particular order).
Tires for your car - [...]

If you can follow along with the message behind that title, then you’re off to a great start. I just wanted to share with you a few ideas for frugality that I’ve come across this month. It has been a very interesting January, with the markets down 7-10% since the 1st. It [...]

Too many times I’ve read posts of these personal finance bloggers that keep repeating their mantra ‘Well, it’s impossible to time the market so I’ll just invest my money whenever into an index fund.’
Fact: It is difficult for mutual fund and hedge fund managers controlling massive amounts of money to consistently beat the S&P500 [...]

Some of you may have noticed that I added a ‘forums’ link to the menu bar at the top of the page recently.  I’m currently testing out and prepping the discussion forms for use and it is ready for initial usage.  It’s very exciting for me to be able to provide a place for readers [...]

A few years ago I worked in customer service for an upscale clothing goods store. It was a relatively new store and wasn’t terribly busy yet. One night a co-worker and I were extremely bored with absolutely nothing to do so we invented a game. We took alternating turns writing relevant and [...]