Are you in a financial rut? Do you need some motivation to get you back on your feet and move forward? Perhaps you’ve been trying to build and emergency fund this year and emergencies pop up as quickly as you deposit money into your savings account. Or, perhaps you’ve paid off all your debt and [...]
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Should You Spend Money on a Vacation?
Do you ever question whether or not you should spend money on a vacation? Perhaps you still have debt, or are trying to increase your savings. Is spending money on a vacation really the right thing to do? Or, maybe you believe you deserve a vacation each year no matter your financial situation. You reason [...]
Avoid the Pressure to Spend
Have you ever felt like you were pressured into spending money? Deep down you really knew you didn’t have the money to spend, but because of the situation, people around you or other factors, you ended up spending anyway. For those who are conscious spenders you know when one of these occasions is about to [...]
Tips for Your Financial Life After College
Your life after college can be challenging especially when it comes to managing money and your personal finances. You may or may have not had financial responsibilities during school. For those who worked their way through school had to learn very early how to earn and manage money to meet expenses. But many graduates were either [...]
Ways to Improve Your Finances (Part 2)
This is the second post in which I discuss Money Magazine’s recent special report: 31 Ways to Improve Your Finances. As you may recall from part 1, I felt there were 10 ways that stood out above the others. So, in this second post I’m going to share my remaining favorites. Money provides some finance [...]
Earth Day 2010: Environmentally Friendly Financial Moves
Given today is earth day, I thought I would write an afternoon post with some environmentally friendly financial moves to help save mother earth, but also to help your pocket book. But first, what is earth day? Wikepedia says Earth Day is designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. I think it’s [...]
Ways to Improve Your Finances (Part 1)
If you read Money magazine you probably noticed a special report this past month called: 31 Ways to Improve Your Finances.As you probably know, I’m always on the look out for money management tips to share with others, or learn for my own personal financial management. So, the title of this article definitely caught my [...]