5 Tips to Save Money When Traveling in Europe
Budgeting Tips To Help You Manage Your Finances
2020 taught us the importance of budgeting and having liquid money or savings. As you …
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A Parents Guide to Teaching Teens About Money
Any teen parent knows how difficult it can be to talk to their child about …
5 Key Steps for Getting a Small Business Loan
Are you facing financial issues with your new or existing business? Take a loan and …
Dime Challenge- Fun Ways to Save
Loose change can be a nuisance. It fills up purses and weighs down pockets, and …
Property Taxes- How to Save HUNDREDS!
Another year has come and gone and therefore property taxes are once again due. I …
Teens and Finance: 5 Money Management Skills they learn from you
Teens and finance is often an ignored subject. Parents and their careers are quite crucial …
5 Keys to Budget Success
Okay friend, you want to save money, you’re willing to learn, it’s obvious, after all, …
Easy Envelope Budgeting for Beginners
In this day and age, everyone is talking about budgets. I hear the chatter everywhere …
Time is Money or is it the Other way Around. . .
Teaching kids (or even adults) about money and budgeting isn’t always easy. Each person comes …
Money Blunders #1- Bargain Shopping
Lately, I’ve been reading lots of posts and frustrations of people that are doing everything …
How to Save Up for a Mortgage Down Payment
So, you’ve decided you’re ready to buy a home – congrats! But once all the …
9 Creative Ways to Save Money
When you need to trim the fat off your monthly budget, sometimes you have to …
Tips to Automate Your Investing Plan
5 Tips to Automate your Investment Plan Investing is one of the reliable ways to …
College Funding when you’re Broke . . .
Finding funds for college can be quite a challenge, particularly if you don’t seem to …
Renting101: How to Get your Security Deposit Back
How to Get Back Your Security Deposit With many apartments requiring a security deposit equal …
Money & Marriage Blunders- Spending Differences
Money & Marriage Blunders- don’t let spending differences wreck your happy home! Recently it came …
How to Make Money on Instagram
Let’s face it. Social media platforms are a big part of our lives now. Almost …
5 easy steps kids can take to save Mom’s money
5 Easy steps kids can take to save mom’s money starting today! Let’s face it. …
A year of Unemployment- How 1 Family Made it Through
How we made it through a year of Unemployment
Guest Post by GardenLabyrinth
Guest Post by GardenLabyrinth
Finances- a Family Affair
You’re on board to creating and following a budget, but now it’s time to take it one step further; It’s time to include the rest of the family in the financial picture. . . here’s why!
Have no savings? Take these 3 steps right now
Are you one of those people who have never bothered to save a penny in your checking account? If so, then you’re in a
Clean the House & Fatten Your Wallet with these Yard Sale Tricks
Check out these 24 Tried and true tricks to maximize yard sale success! Step 1: …
9 Ways to Teach Your Child How To Budget Money
It’s a parent’s desire to give their children anything they ask for but it’s the …
Budgets for all occasions
Creating a budget to follow doesn’t have to be difficult. Choose from starter (first-time budgets), …
Fees, Fees, Fees!
Do you ever get the feeling that you’re being nickle and dimed to death? The last couple of years I’ve noticed an alarming trend in how many companies process monthly payments, particularly for those that use their banks bill pay system . . .
Munching a Budget Pachyderm . . .
You might have heard the old adage, How do you eat an elephant? Well, dear reader, the answer is “one bite at a time”. And so it goes with munching a budget pachyderm.
I’m willing to wager that you didn’t get into debt overnight, but rather in small chunks over a period of time, perhaps even years. You might not have even realized how big your “elephant” was getting, until it slapped you in the face.
The Lion’s Share- When Housework isn’t so Even
Early on in my marriage it seemed that I handled the lion’s share of the housework.I would often mention (in off-hand) comments, that it would be nice to have a little help once in awhile. It took me a few years before I learned that my approach to my husband was what prevented him from helping with the housework!
Finances and Making your Money Count
Finances & Making your Money Count 4 Ways you may be Eating your way into …
Dangerous Information, Identity Theft
Dear Dollar Stretcher,
Someone told me you weren’t supposed to put your social security number on your checks. Also you shouldn’t have your number on your driver’s license since that number is used for a lot of private things. Can you give me some input on this subject? ~Marsha
Comparing a Refinance
Comparing a Refinance By Gary Foreman* Dear Gary, My husband and I want to refinance …
How to Contest Your Property Taxes & Win
The next time you go to your mailbox, you may be in for an unpleasant …