For various reasons I ended up getting a small chunk of cash sitting in my savings account. This isn't "big" money by any stretch of the imagination, but enough that I don't think that a 1% savings account is the right place for it. My problem - I've never don't any real financial planning, investing, or anything else like that before. Last night I went to Borders and tried to find a good book.

Wow, talk about bad books - I would say 80% of the books where basically "How to take the change from under your couch and make one million dollars with secrets that Wall Street will never tell you!". Give me a break, I want a book with realistic advice. When I started looking at buying a house I found a bunch of good books, with reasonable advice about interviewing agents, etc.

I ended up getting The Truth About Money, which I'm going to start reading today. Should be interesting to try and get into this a little bit.