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Understanding Checking Account Buffers: Prevent Overdrafts & Stay On Budget
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Lili Review: Best Banking for Freelancers & Independent Contractors - 2024
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Lifestyle Creep: Understanding and Avoiding the Trap
Ali is 30 years old and has a great job that pays $75,000 per year. By all measures, Ali is crushing it and lives a fun lifestyle. Ali takes expensive vacations, eats at the best restaurants, and driv
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Top Debit Cards for Kids & Teens: Build Financial Literacy
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Avoid House Poor: Strategies for Financial Freedom
When you’re house poor, you spend most of your income on the home you own. This can include your monthly mortgage payment, insurance, repairs, and utility bills. Keep reading to learn how you ca
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Build an Emergency Fund: Stop Making Excuses | America Saves Week
Im back, and I sound just like your mom: Save that damned emergency fund, already. This week (Feb. 24-March 1) is America Saves Week. And not a moment too soon: As a nation, were losing ground. A
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Cash vs. Digital Payments: Understanding the Pros and Cons
These days, my monthly budget is on the boring side. Aside from our regular spending, Ive got a mortgage payment to fork over, groceries to buy, and utility bills to pay. Throw in some payments t
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Insights from a Real Millionaire: Riding & Financial Habits
It was sunny last Friday afternoon, so I decided to go for a ride. Because Kim has been riding motorcycles all her life, I took a training class last August and now own a used Honda Rebel. When t
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Master Your Finances: A Guide to Tracking Spending & Achieving Financial Stability
Recently, an old friend emailed me for help with his familys financial woes. The confession that followed wasnt pretty, and included tales of student loans, car loans, unrestrained spending, and
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Understanding Funeral Costs: What You Need to Know
When someone has to make funeral arrangements, they often look to the funeral home for help. They select one of the three coffins suggested by the funeral home. Often its part of a mid-priced pac
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Landline vs. VoIP: Is Cutting the Cord the Right Financial Move?
A while ago, my wife and I did what we do from time to time — ask if theres another cost-saving opportunity weve overlooked. I dont know about you, but the quest for fiscal prudence is ge
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Overcome Financial Anxiety: Practical Strategies for Managing Money Fears
[Editors Note: Kristin Wong penned this article on money management tips even through your fears a couple years ago, but its as relevant today as it was then.] My first year of high school, I wa
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The Power of Frugality: Building Wealth Through Smart Spending
Frugality isnt very sexy. Ill admit that. For most people, the concept of thrift probably conjures images of coupon clipping, stock photos of piggy banks, and Benjamin Franklin — none of wh
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Financial Discipline: Aligning Spending with Your Future Self
I fight splurges less often than I used to, but the urge still pops up occasionally. Sometimes, its okay to splurge; but mostly, I find myself wanting to resist temptation. There are a few questi
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Master Negotiation: Strategies for Overcoming Reluctance & Achieving Results
In an ideal world, you wouldnt need to go negotiate. In an ideal world, the weather would be perfect, there would be no war, and your employer would simply say, “Hey, your value to our com
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The Scarcity Mindset: How Lack Impacts Your Brain & Decisions
I recently discovered the book “Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much.” To be honest, I dont even remember how I came to find out about the book. Maybe someone recommended it
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Understanding Car Loan Repayment & Dealer Tactics
Your car breaks down on the side of the road … again. Its rush hour and it wont start. You have to have it towed and youre not happy about it. At all. So what do you do? You head to the local dea
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Understanding Necessary Vet Procedures: A Pet Owner's Guide
On Monday at 8:30 a.m., I found myself at the veterinarians office — where, unknowingly, I would spend the next three hours. The night before, my cat Mia threw up at least five times. In t
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Navigating Career Transitions & Financial Adjustments: A Personal Story
As many of you know, my husband had a career crisis that left him unemployed for several months last summer. It was scary, but we learned a lot from the experience — including the fact th
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Financial Integration: Navigating the Challenges of Combining Finances with a Partner
It happened fast. We barely talked about it, but all of a sudden, about a week after we got engaged — and before we were really ready — my fiancé and I had combined our finances. I c
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