All Posts Tagged With: "income"
5 Ways to Supplement Your Lacking Income
Many working families still cannot fully make ends meet and live from one paycheck to the next. Those families have found that after calculating their monthly expenses from their monthly income, the sum total is in the negative. In this common scenario, there are typically two choices: You can cut some expenses out of your [...]
How to Start Your Budget for a New Year
Long before the start of a new year, you should already be tracking your financial over the past several months to make it easier to start a revised budget for a new year. While many people wait until the absolutely last minute to collect their data for taxes, it is to their own detriment. Here [...]
Consumer Spending Increased in March Thanks to Rising Prices
Consumers have been shown to increase the amount of money they spent through the month of March, largely due to the necessity to pay for higher gasoline prices and rising grocery costs. While the outlook may appear to be good for the economy, there is a bigger financial strange on the personal finances of American [...]
Tips for Making the Most of a Job Fair
With the increase in joblessness due to downsizing and layoffs, competition is not doubt fierce right now for everyone seeking the opportunity for employment. Because of this competition, it is essential you use every opportunity t make a great impression whether you are interviewing, networking ,r attending a job fair. Job fairs are a popular [...]
Tips for Tipping Over the Holidays
If you are following your budget and eating or going out less than usual, it may be time for a brush up lesson on tipping during the holiday season. As we schlep around the malls and visit restaurants and family, there may be more occasions that call for a need to tip others who help [...]
How to Improve Your Chances of Retiring
While many people of retirement age can not afford to retire, many more could secure their retirement if they do their part to make sure they are preparing for retirement. While retirement aged people should have already taken the step to secure their work-free future, it is the young, working people that need to get [...]
Keep Your Money to Yourself Part 4: Make More Money
This final article in its four-part series is all about making money, whether hand over fist or a bit at a time. The goal of this series was to show a few simple ways to improve anyone’s cash flow by both cutting expenses and increasing income. Since last week’s article “Supplement Your Income” was about [...]
Keep Your Money to Yourself Part 3: Supplement Your Income
When trying to increase your cash flow and thereby keep your money to yourself, it is important to find ways that can supplement your income without having to spend too much time or effort on your part. Not only does this help ease the burden in troubled times, but it is very satisfying to watch [...]
Keep Your Money for Yourself – Part 2: Get the Best Deals
Finding the best deals does not need to be difficult. For some like me (the compulsive shopper), shopping can be an addiction. By making wise money choices, you give yourself the opportunity to make wise-money investments. This second article in a four-part series offers nine tips that will help you find the best deals on [...]
Get a Big Fat Tax Refund
It’s tax time…the dreaded time of year when you’re scrambling madly to gather all your paperwork together and deeply dreading the taxman’s verdict: “YOU OWE MONEY!!!” Oh, the horror… The desolation. How in the “H-E-double hockey sticks” are you supposed to come up with a couple grand to pay the IRS? Actually, you may not [...]
20 FREE THINGS YOU CAN DO TO PUT MONEY IN YOUR POCKET
Although these tips are written for business owners, many of these tips can be used for everyday people as well to save and make money. They can be done immediately, and over the course of a month or a year, you will find more money in your bank account. 1) Use a rewards credit card. [...]
Keep Your Money to Yourself – Part 1: Cut Your Expenses
Whether you are an “Average Joe” trying to go above and beyond the paycheck-to-paycheck lifestyle, or you are a business owner struggling to keep your business open and thriving, there are hundreds of things you can do to increase your cash flow every month. This article is the first in a four-part series that will [...]
Will The Ends Ever Meet?
In a 2007 survey conducted by CareerBuilder.com, the nation’s largest online job site, four out of every ten American workers survive living paycheck to paycheck. 41% of the working public would not be able to meet their living expenses without relying on the next payroll check to come in. The incoming money is spent before [...]
Get Paid to Get a Tattoo (And Sell Yourself Out to Corporate America in the Process)
If you’re young, broke, and desperately need money, what do you do? Conventional wisdom would indicate that going out and getting a job would be the smart thing to do, but instead some people are taking drastic measures by selling advertising real estate on their skin! People are connecting with advertisers and having temporary tattoos [...]
Four Ways to Give Yourself a Raise
A good share of us think we’re underpaid. We think our salary isn’t high enough, that we don’t have a good enough benefits package and that we just don’t get enough time off. Many of us gripe about it but never end up doing anything about it because we think our efforts to get a [...]
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