All Posts Tagged With: "personal finance"
Two Money Management Strategies to Reach Your Goals Faster
There isn’t much you can do about the current economic conditions, but you always have control over managing your money. If you’re not afraid to spend some money in exchange for reaching your goals faster, you can take steps to maximize your finances that people who prefer to be frugal and cut expenses won’t try. [...]
Saving Money Despite Durbin Amendment Bank Changes
Consumers need to pay a lot more attention to every detail of their finances these days if they wish to save as much as they intend. With the recent addition of the Durbin Amendment to the rules of banking, consumers are even more hard-pressed to get very involved in their money matters, especially where their [...]
Find More Rewards With Debit Cards
Americans are scaling back on their credit card application and usage since the credit crisis of the last few years. More consumers are switching over to debit cards, trying to maintain a cash-only existence. It is estimated that there are now more debit than credit card users according to the latest research statistics. Since debit [...]
How a Savings Plan Can Help Global Recovery
The beginning of 2010 has seen the dust settling on the global financial crisis. The worst appears to be over, and world-wide, governments and business have recovery plans under way. Confidence is returning to business and households, with both groups looking to the future. This is an excellent time for salary earners to re-assess their [...]
Consumers Being Warned to Stick With Good Practices
After a long haul of putting money away, shopping with price in mind, and practicing the art of frugality, many experts are worried that consumer may be tired of sitting back and saving. As the new year rolls on and things seem to be leveling off in the more troubled industry, such as credit and [...]
Studies Show Consumers Learning From Recession
It may not be big news that consumers have learned some valuable lessons from the recession, but it might be surprising at how quickly they have adjusted to economic conditions. A recent report shows that people have learned to take charge of their finances more aggressively. Consumers are now saving more and cutting spending across [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance posted at Earn What You Spend
Earn What You Spend hosted the latest Carnival of Personal Finance #204. Here are a few of the posts I liked this week: Darwin’s Finance shows us a nice graph that outlines the differences of Investors Starting at 25 vs. 35 Years Old. One Caveman’s Financial Journey shows us 8 Things New Parents Dont Need Debt Freedom [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance #199 Has Been Published
It’s Monday, and you know what that means! The Carnival of Personal Finance is up and ready for your reading enjoyment. This week, the ABCs of Investing is the host. Here are a few from the carnival: Discover Debt Freedom shows how to create a credit card repayment plan. Bill Eater has 5 tips for [...]
Checkout BillEater.com
There are a lot of personal finance sites out on the web, some of which have been around just a few weeks and others that have been around for several years. Normally I don’t toot other blogger’s horns too much, but I’ve found another financial web-log that’s definitely worth checking out. The site is billeater.com; [...]
The Frugal Duchess offers The Carnival of Personal Finance #183
It’s Monday and that means it’s Carnival of Personal Finance Day! The Frugal Duchess published the latest edition, and it was overflowing with holiday, career, economy, frugality and investing tips. A few of our favorites included: Empowering Mom presents Overwhelming Workload – YES You Can Do it! Money Smart Life presents TurboTax Review – 2008 [...]
A Funny Carnival of Personal Finance Has Been Published (#175)
Budgets are Sexy offers up this week’s personal finance carnival in a funny way! Lots of great articles and tips included, so be sure to head over and check it out (and don’t miss the jokes!) Here are my favorites from the week: Debt Freedom Fighter from Discover Debt Freedom presents 3 Indicators that a [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance #173 at Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
Where does the time go? On Monday, Girls Just Wanna Have Funds published the most recent edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. Check it out – or if you’re pressed for a time, here’s a select few you won’t want to miss: Scott from The Passive Dad presents Free Creative Ideas to Help Friends [...]
Tough Times, Tough Measure: What to Do With An Empty Wallet
Tightening the purse strings is definitely no easy task but what if there is just no money left inside that purse in order to fulfill the most basic needs of life. While it’s a hard situation to deal with, there are ways to deal when times are just too tough to survive. Here are a [...]
Financial Freedom Begins With Decisions
“I hate paying bills.” Have you ever said that? I have. But it was more than just hate. I loathed the whole idea. Probably the most disgusting thing I had to do was pay bills. It wasn‘t because I disliked writing checks or licking stamps or even going in person to hand somebody I didn’t [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance #151 Published
Kimberly Palmer of Alpha Consumer has posted the latest carnival, and there are a number of terrific articles this week. Here are my top picks (other than the article posted from here, of course!) Our Fourpence Worth has some ideas for Mother’s Day which are just in time Smart Easy Money says gas isn’t that expensive, [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance #150
The carnival was hosted by Lazy Man and Money who’s name suggests he’s lazy… but I’m not sure how true that can be since it took him 16 hours to put this week’s carnival posting together! Thanks for the hard work, and for listing 115 articles from personal finance bloggers all over the net for our [...]
Website Review: Mint.com
I have read finance related articles on Mint.com in the past, but never really took the time to realize that they are more than another site with articles! This morning I was looking around for some inspiration, and discovered that Mint.com allows people to create an account and track all of their bank accounts and [...]
Carnival of Personal Finance is Available
Our very own Tisha Kulak’s article was featured in the Carnival of Personal Finance (#144) this week- very exciting! People are interested in learning how to plant gardens without spending a fortune. Other favorite posts this week for me included: Debt Freedom Fighter’s great ideas for spending your tax refund. Digerati Life gives us tips for [...]
Why Going to a Financial Advisor Might be Financially Disastrous
Not everyone in the world is blessed with a strong knowledge of stewardship and how to handle their financial household. We all have our short comings and its okay to admit that we have them. Fortunately there are people out in the world that can help us accomplish our goals that we cannot accomplish ourselves. [...]
Economic Indicators Point to a Recession, Make Sure You’re Prepared.
For the last two decades the economy has been very strong as a whole. During the mid 90’s we saw the greatest period of economic expansion we’ve ever seen, and even despite the September 11th terrorist attacks and accounting fraud in many major companies earlier this decade, our economy has still remained very strong. The [...]
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