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Smart Budgeting for Singles: Achieve Financial Freedom
It doesn’t matter whether you make $20,000 per year or $200,000 per year. Having a budget will improve your life in the long term. Unfortunately, the term “budgeting” ma
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Slash Your Monthly Expenses: The $1,000 Challenge - A Budgeting Expert's Insights
The Detroit News’s Funny Money columnist Brian O’Connor had a couple of problems: he needed a fresh idea for his column, and the family budget was always too tight. Putting those togethe
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Prioritizing Budget Cuts: Housing, Food, or Transportation?
With the holidays’ smorgasbord of excess behind us, it’s probably a good time to consider where we can cut back in 2014. A reader sent in a well-timed question this week, asking which maj
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The Millionaire Next Door: Lessons from Financially Successful People
In their classic book The Millionaire Next Door, authors Thomas Stanley and William Danko offer a simple message. Plenty of millionaires don’t live lifestyles of the rich and famous. They
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Home Maintenance Fund: A 3-Step Guide to Financial Security
It’s important to set aside some money for home maintenance each year to prevent unexpected costs from becoming unaffordable disasters. Plan on saving a consistent amount of money in a se
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Jay Leno's Financial Secrets: How to Build Wealth & Save Money
Recently, Jay Leno retired from the Tonight Show (again). But don’t worry about him going broke anytime soon. The man has hundreds of millions of dollars in the bank, the result of
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Mastering One-Time Expense Budgeting: 3 Proven Strategies
Even if you’re an old hand at budgeting, you probably get tripped up by the occasional “unexpected” expense. One-off expenses like car registration fees, annual HVAC maintenance appointme
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Discover Your Savings Superpower: Which Superhero Are You?
Are you a superhero with your money? You are? Great! But here’s the thing — there are so many superheroes, and so many different ways to handle funds, that considering yoursel
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Car Sharing vs. Ride Services: Cost Savings in Seattle & Beyond
Seattle has never been a great transit town. We have one light rail line and a decent bus system that is always on the verge of a funding disaster. Most people in Seattle who can afford a
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Back-to-School Savings: Smart Shopping Strategies for Parents
It’s that time of year again! As a kid, you looked forward to going back to school; new classes and teachers, reuniting with old friends and most importantly, new clothes and supplies. No
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5 Smart Ways Your Smartphone Can Save You Money
Cell phones have earned a reputation as enablers of mindless, wallet-draining spending. In addition to racking up expensive overage fees and international charges, popular apps offering f
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Valentine's Day Spending Guide: Meaningful Gifts on Any Budget
How much you spend on your Valentine is not a measure of how much you care, nor does it mean that expensive gifts are more meaningful. Just like the handmade Valentine’s of our elementary
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Budget Valentine's Day: 6 Creative & Free Ways to Show Love
Money certainly doesn’t buy love (like, true love), but Valentine’s Day marketers always do their best to convince us that chocolates, fancy dinners and jewelry are sure-fire
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Psychology of Saving: 4 Mindset Tricks for Financial Success
If your goal is to save money, budgeting and tracking your spending can go a very long way. But now, thanks to science, there are some new discoveries proving that building wealth and ha
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Student Loan Debt Reduction: A 6-Month Financial Check-In
Back in December, I had the opportunity to review Ken’s financial profile. He’s an airline pilot who earns about $100,000 a year. At 36 years old, his main financial gripe is that he’s ti
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Secure Your Future: 5 Essential Steps to Financial Well-being
This is a guest post from Barron’s Next, which provides personal finance and investing guidance for a new generation of investors. Visit Barron’s Next for news on hot stocks, smart advice
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Emergency Savings: Protecting Your Budget from Unexpected Expenses
Even the most airtight budget can be caught off guard by unexpected expenses. What do you do when you’re hit with a large bill that needs to be paid immediately? Setting up a savings ac
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Emergency Fund Guide: Build Financial Security & Peace of Mind
Emergency savings. Building one can seem daunting for anyone living paycheck to paycheck. When I was 27, I went to an outlet mall because I just felt like getting something new. I remembe
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Emergency Fund Size: Is $1,000 Enough?
People tend to latch on to the wisdom of the most prominent experts in any field. In the case of personal finance, the most famous expert is probably Dave Ramsey. One of his key pieces of
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Build Your Emergency Fund: A Step-by-Step Guide
Besides having a spending plan and saving for retirement, one of the major tenets of financial wellness is to have a healthy emergency fund. But the reality is that when you’re juggling m
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Bitcoin vs. Gold: Should Central Banks Issue Their Own Digital Currencies?The history of gold trading can be traced back hundreds of years while bitcoin, a digital currency that uses encryption and works independently of central banks...
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Cashing a Check from the Same Bank You Owe - What to ExpectYou finally received a check you've been waiting for, just to discover it is written from a bank to which you owe money. You plan to pay the bank off but currently, you need all the money you can ...
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South Africa's 2018 Budget: Impact on State-Owned EnterprisesSouth Africa’s 2018 national budget was presented amid growing concern about the financial sustainability of key state owned enterprises such as ...
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Home Recycling Innovations: A Sustainable FutureIf you really want to panic about something, start thinking about our global trash problem. We make and waste so much stuff, and one of the only ways around that seems to be recycling. Unfortunately, ...