The Alternative to Car Ownership

If you are an urban dweller, Zipcar offers you an alternative option to buying a car – sharing a car with everybody else in the city.  You can join the Cambridge-based company, which started with the vision of lowering pollution and the number of cars on the road, on either an Occasional Driving or Extra Value Plan.  [...]

New Legislation That Will Affect Your Wallet

I’ll be honest. I hadn’t been paying much attention to the new credit card legislation. I figured it wouldn’t actually affect me that much, since I always pay my credit card bill on time and in full (which everyone should do in the first place as paying 18% interest on credit card debt [...]

Welcome!

Money Under Your Futon was first conceived during a lunch break at TGIF at Tyson’s Corner. After a long day of swiping our credit cards, our conversation inevitably got to personal finance – namely, taxes. It was tax season and we had talked about different forms, deductions, and credits several times over the last few [...]