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10 Tips To Manage Your Household Budget
Taking care of a family is hard enough, but managing the finances can seem next to impossible. Not only do you want to give them everything you can, but you also want to do it all without breaking the bank. Here are 10 ways to create and manage a budget that you can stick to…
Ten Financial Tips for Women Seriously Considering Divorce
1. Get informed. In order to have an idea of where you stand financially after divorce you need to figure out your financial status as a married couple. Gather all of the documents pertaining to your assets and liabilities. Each current account statement, whether it’s reporting the mortgage balance, credit card balance, Individual Retirement Account value, student loan, etc.
3 Financial Moves to Make Before You Buy a Home
Home sales in the U.S. are skyrocketing as interest rates remain at historically low levels. In fact, Zillow expects nearly 7 million existing-home sales this year—the most since 2005. With so many prospective homebuyers on the market, you too may be wondering if it’s time to take the plunge into homeownership. Before you begin hunting…
Can You Afford a College Degree?
The following is a guest post byClare Levison, CPA and Author of Frugal Isnt Cheap: Spend Less, Save More, Live Better. It is sponsored by Western International University.For working adults wondering if they should go back to school for a degree – or to upgrade their bachelors degree to a masters – affordability is, today, more important than ever. How can I afford it? is often the first question students ask before …
How to Raise Money-Smart Kids
Probably, your above-average kid knows how to plunk out a Mozart concerto and ace his Mathematics test, but does he know how to craft a frugal budget and stick to it? Does he know the exact way to manage his multiple credit cards and pay an electricity bill?