By Heaven Stubblefield When I first began working as a freelance writer I thought this income was going to be used for Christmas.  However, within my household, we had some changes take place and needed to use this income for more tangible things.  It is possible to budget on a freelancer’s salary.  All you need [...]

Fall is officially here and everything good that comes with it.  For me it’s the fact that football is underway as well as some fun new shows to watch on TV.  For others it may be some of those fall savings they can try to take advantage of.  I love the fall, nothing like some [...]

We are just a couple of weeks away from the latest BudgetPulse site update.  We have taken a lot of suggestions from the users for this release as we have done in the past and we have been working hard to improve the tool for everyone. Although our site redesign received a ton of positive [...]

By Heaven Stubblefield At one time, banks were all about getting people to put money into a CD.  While these things use to be used exclusively by the music industry, banks caught on started spreading the word on an incentive to make money with them.  Unfortunately, CD’s are not worth it and here’s why.  There [...]

One article from the BudgetPulse Blog was selected as a top post of the week for the Carnival of Personal Finance 223: Financial Meltdown, a year later. It was the excellent article written by Heaven about using canvas bags in grocery stores that generated a lot of debate from readers and was a fun topic [...]

By Heaven Stubblefield It seems these days everyone and everything is go, go, go.  Kitchens have become another room that holds your things without ever being used.  The restaurant business has skyrocketed simply because people are spending less time in their kitchens and more time in the hands of other people to cook for them.  [...]

By Mala Lal As a freelance writer, I am always looking for ways to keep my finances in order. Here are my top 10 benefits of using an online personal finance tool. 10. It works on my time: With my tool being online, I never have to make an appointment to go over finances. There [...]

By Heaven Stubblefield If you are like me and every other American in the country, you think big.  One philosophy that has been instilled in us is that we can never have too much of something.  But there’s a rule of thumb that we all need to think about whenever we get the urge to [...]

By Heaven Stubblefield Congratulations!  You have found yourself liking someone else and wanting to spend time with them.  While it seems that a lot of money goes into impressing that special someone, you can be in a successful relationship without breaking your bank.  As a woman who has been on a lot of dates, I [...]

Hope everyone is having a happy Friday and excited for the weekend and the beginning of the football season.  On Wednesday, I participated in a DC networking event involving a lot who are active in new media within the city.  I have met a few of the people there before at past events and have [...]

I hope everyone had a great summer and labor day weekend, but now we enter the last quarter of 2009.  Back to school for kids and parents of kids alike, the weather will be slowly cooling, and maybe the most important part of the fall…..football is back!  If you are like me, Sundays are dedicated [...]