Dontcha Mess with My Money

Hi - UTMGuy here with the first post on the Under the Mattress Blog. UTMGuy is married to UTMGal. Both are college students working part-time, trying to make ends meet. We've recently become extremely motivated to learn about money, learning how to earn it, save it, make it work for you, and get the best bang for our buck. This blog is not necessisarily a money-making venture, though it sure wouldn't hurt if it did. We hope this is a place for real-world information. We're working on some book reviews, financial sites and online service reviews, and many other things we're learning through our research. We know that teaching others something you learn is the best way to learn something, so hopefully this will be mutually beneficial to both us and you. The tagline for the site comes from the song "Don't You Mess With My Money" by blues artist Sterling Harrison. It can be found on the album "South of Snooty Fox." We picked this as the tagline for the site because not only is Harrison's sassy voice and swinging vocals a ton of fun to listen to while blogging, it's a good mantra to live by - "don't mess with my (your) money" - do it right and live happy! Stay tuned as the site gets fleshed out and comes to life over the next month or so.