Articles in 'Spending Habits' Category
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Investing is complex rocket science that requires professional help — at least that’s what the professionals usually say. But a strong case can be made for investors following a design principle known as KISS, which in this case stands for: Keep it simple, saver.
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September 2nd, 2010 | Posted in Spending Habits | No Comments
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
If your child or other family members are entering their senior year of high school and you worry about how they’ll manage their money when they head to college, use back-to-school shopping as a trial run for college budgeting.
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Spending Habits | No Comments
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Financing a small business is rarely an easy task. Unless you have spotless personal credit, getting a corporate credit card will be difficult. Without a large savings account, bootstrapping is also problematic. So what’s a creative-minded entrepreneur to do: give up? Of course not. [...]
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Better Credit, Credit Issues, Spending Habits | No Comments
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Eating out instead of bringing a lunch can be a serious drain on your budget. But eating yesterday’s dinner for lunch can quickly get boring. The solution: create a fresh, tastier version with these recipes.
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Spending Habits | No Comments
from CNN Money Top Tips
The end of summer is approaching fast and everyone wants to get out and enjoy those last few days in the sun.
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Spending Habits | No Comments
from Dave Ramsey News
My wife and I have been together 30 years August 20. We both worked for a major oil company, so we made ok money. We got married August 22, 1983. Started a small business in 1984 one year after we got married, while we both still had full time jobs. We tried [...]
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Banking and Investing, Spending Habits | No Comments
from Dave Ramsey News
Five years ago my husband and I hit our financial rock bottom. His 6 figure job as a new construction real estate agent came to a a sour end when the real estate bubble burst.Up until this point we had lived high on the hog and our reckless financial habits left us [...]
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Real Estate, Spending Habits | No Comments
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Question: Looking into the future of the American economy, I see tons of debt, the yoke of increasing social spending, pork-fed bureaucratic waste, the exporting of jobs and the importing of poverty. While this may paint a negative picture, I feel it’s reality. We all want to be patriotic, but aren’t [...]
September 1st, 2010 | Posted in Real Estate, Spending Habits | No Comments
from CNN Money Personal Finance
Shawn and Mary Kate DeRose live comfortably on a combined $133,000 income. They pay their debts, save for retirement, even have room to splurge on dinners out and high-end gym memberships.
August 31st, 2010 | Posted in Banking and Investing, Spending Habits, Taxes | No Comments
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
In our quest to make the most out of our shrinking dollars, we try to make the best financial decisions in order to stretch our budgets. But when we look closely at these decisions, we sometimes wonder if they were always sound. Do our choices really save us a [...]
August 30th, 2010 | Posted in Banking and Investing, Spending Habits | No Comments