All-Inclusive Vacations Can Save You Money
Most of us carefully plan our vacations to fit our paychecks and we are always interested in learning how to save money on our vacations. Somehow, though, in spite of all of our best intentions, vacations always seem to cost more than we expect. We go each time with a plan in hand, and each time, we come back wondering where all the money went.
Budgeting for the big things like travel and lodging is pretty straight forward. Smaller expenses are
03/31/2012
03/27/2012
Preparing Your Finances for a New Baby
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Preparing Your Finances for a New Baby
A new baby on the way is always an exciting and celebratory time. However, a baby can also be a huge financial challenge, especially if you don't take the appropriate steps to prepare yourself. Keep these tips in mind when preparing your finances for the new arrival.
New Baby Expenses
1. Medical bills. Find out in advance what medical
How to Raise Cash Quickly
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How to Raise Cash Quickly
Unexpected financial situations happen to even the most careful among us. When financial emergencies occur in your life, you may find yourself tempted to go for the easiest ways to raise cash. However, there are usually better ways.
If you can keep your wits about you, money can often be raised in ways that have minimal long-term consequences.
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03/26/2012
Are your Priorities Reflected in Your Spending?
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Does Your Spending Reflect Your Priorities?
When most of your money goes toward providing whatâs most important to you, you tend to live a more fulfilled life and feel more satisfied with the way you spend your money. Itâs also easier to stick to your personal finance plan when its objectives are to get you what you really want out of life.
Because life priorities can
Protect Yourself from a Recession
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7 Ways to Protect Yourself from a Recession
Just the word, ârecession,â is scary for most of us, but you can put many of your fears to rest. By adopting these seven basic principles into your life, the pain of a recession can be largely minimized.
1. Live within your means. Living within your means every day is just another way of saying
03/25/2012
Living paycheck to paycheck
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Can You Afford to Miss Your Next Paycheck?
Living hand-to-mouth is never enjoyable. But when the economy is struggling, changing jobs isn't easy, and layoffs seem all too possible, living paycheck to paycheck can feel even scarier. What if your next paycheck didnât come as expected? How long could you get by without it?
Luckily, there are some simple things you can do to better your situation and reduce your financial risk.
Consider
03/23/2012
How to Invest Like Warren Buffett
How to Invest Like Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett is perpetually one of the richest people in the world and almost universally considered to be the greatest stock picker the world has ever known.
While you might not ever be worth $50 billion, you can certainly learn a thing or two from âThe Oracleâ and greatly increase your wealth over the long-term.
Though Mr. Buffet has never officially written down his process for evaluating and choosing stocks, there is a lot that can be learned
03/22/2012
Tax Advantages for the Self-Employed
Tax Advantages for the Self-Employed
There are some great advantages to being self-employed. Being self-employed allows for plenty of opportunities to minimize your taxable income by turning expenses you would have even if you weren't self-employed into tax-deductible business expenses.
This article will give you some of the information you need to dramatically reduce your taxable income with a little work and planning.
Here are some of the great tax deductions that are available to the
03/21/2012
7 Steps to Organizing Your Finances
7 Steps to Organizing Your Finances
You might not consider yourself to be an organized person, but your finances are the last place you want to be disorganized. Having too little cash at the end of the month is a challenge, but overdraft fees and late fees every month are an even bigger concern. By getting organized you dramatically cut down on the likelihood of these things happening.
Follow these steps and you'll be more organized that you ever thought you could be:
1. Look at your
02/07/2012
Saving Money on Clothing
Saving Money on Clothing
When left to its own devices, clothing can quickly become one of the priciest expenses in your household.
The cute leather stilettos for your tootsies, the trendy jeans for the man of the house, and the Dora the Explorer sweatshirt for your baby girl may seem like insignificant purchases. But over time, the costs can add up rather quickly.
Instead of curbing your craving to purchase clothing, you can still indulge in a bit of retail therapy without breaking the
