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The First Steps to Creating Your Wedding Budget

Everywhere you turn you hear the word, “budget,” these days. You hear people budgeting their savings, their homes, their trips to the supermarket. Budgeting is a great financial resource for those intelligent enough to employ it in their lives. However, your budget isn’t just for your monthly finances and savings and retirement. It’s for everything […] More
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Financial Advice for First-time Job Seekers

Financial independence is something everyone wants to achieve, but it’s not something many young adults are familiar with. The fact of the matter is that many adults accumulate monstrous debt and financial problems because they’re not taught how to make good financial decisions early in life. While it might be too late for some, there […] More
in How to Save Money

Saving Money at the Grocery Store

Saving money at the grocery store is something we could all learn to do. It’s difficult though, isn’t it? You shop hungry and come home with a bunch of stuff you really don’t need. You shop all at once and you come home without half the stuff you do need. You leave without a list […] More
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Your Credit and Debt After the Wedding

It’s amazing how many people know more about their wedding and wedding planning than they do about their credit scores and debt. Many newly married couples and soon-to-be married couples have some pretty common misconceptions regarding their credit and their marriage. Before you tie the knot – or even if you already have – you […] More
in Real Estate

Three Good Reasons to Purchase Your Own Home

With the housing market changing rapidly, now is the time to purchase your own home. Home prices are increasing slightly in some areas and falling slightly in others, but with the increasing number of home sales across the country, chances are good that the average price of a new home is going to increase significantly […] More
in Personal Finance

20 Ways To Waste Money

You work hard for your money, which makes it precious to you. Money, as you already know, does not grow on trees. You have to earn it, work for it, and when it’s time to spend it, you want to make sure you’re spending it wisely. Wasting money is far easier than you think, but […] More
in Budgeting

Budget for Vacation the Easy Way

Some people never vacation. They never get to experience the excitement of getting on a plane and landing in an unfamiliar destination that’s theirs to explore for the next week or so. They don’t know what it’s like to get to look forward travel every few months. Why? Some people don’t think they’d like to […] More
in Taxes

Seven Last Minute Tax Tips from Financial Journalist Liz Claman

Tomorrow is tax day; but I’m certain you’ve been counting down the days (though not quite with the same level of enthusiasm you use when counting down to vacation). If you haven’t yet filed your income tax return and you’re not interested in filing an extension of time, you’re probably experiencing a bit of last […] More
in How to Make Money

Simple and Surprising Ways to Earn More Money

After overhearing another couple discuss how they just don’t earn enough money while seated close to them at an event recently, it came to my attention that this is a problem many people face. Not making enough money is a common – and very big – problem. Too many people work jobs they may or […] More
in How to Save Money

Tips for Saving Money that Really Work

Saving money is a great habit to develop, but most of us aren’t really sure how to do it. There’s a lot of money saving advice on the internet, coming from friends, and in the news but it’s not that easy to do if you’re not creative with it. If you really want advice on […] More
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Bad Spending Habits to Put an End to Now

We all have spending habits we could improve upon. Some of the most common spending habits people have are things you might not think about; that daily latte, that daily cab ride, that daily lunch out with girlfriends. We all have our own spending habits and there’s nothing wrong with that; unless our spending habits […] More
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Creating a Bucket List for Your Finances

Having a bucket list is something most people talk about, whether it’s a real one or simply one you have in your head that you swear by. You know the one I’m talking about; the list that includes traveling to each continent at least once in your life, kissing your husband at the top of […] More

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