Archive for 'Financial Literacy'
Consumer Reports: Smart Moves for Tough Times
Consumer Reports has compiled some of its resources into a collection called Smart Moves for Tough Times.
The goal of this feature is helping consumers recession-proof their household expenses and finances. Some of the tips you’ll find from the links in this collection include:
When cooking on the stovetop, pick your pan, then put it on […]
Posted: July 17th, 2008 under FYI, Family fun, Financial Literacy, Frugal living, Utility bills.
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Real Simple: Tracking weekly expenses
One of the first steps in setting up a household budget is to make sure you know where your money is going.
Real Simple magazine has a worksheet that will help you track miscellaneous spending during the week.
Posted: July 16th, 2008 under Financial Literacy.
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Money tips from this week’s blog carnivals
Here are some of the blog posts you’ll find on the July 14 Carnival of Personal Finance hosted by The Budgeting Babe and the July 15 Festival of Frugality hosted by On Financial Success.
Yes, I’m a little bit late this week with the carnival roundups. But I didn’t get a chance to read them until […]
Posted: July 16th, 2008 under Financial Literacy, Frugal living, Groceries, In the Blogosphere.
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Simple Dollar: Stepping away from paycheck-to-paycheck
The first tag line for Monroe on a Budget was “tips on making it to the next payday.”
Well, this blog quickly morphed into more than just money tips. There’s also headlines, public service announcements, links to bulletin board discussions and rants. So I decided that “Frugal finances in Southeast Michigan” was a better way to […]
Posted: July 15th, 2008 under Financial Literacy, In the Blogosphere.
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Money matters at divorce360.com
If you’ve ever had to go through a divorce, you know that the process and changeover to a single-again lifestyle has a significant impact on your money.
Regardless of whether child support or alimony is involved, or the details of the legal process, you definitely have to spend time unmerging household accounts, rewriting a lease or […]
Posted: July 12th, 2008 under Financial Literacy, Single parenting and split families.
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Carnival of Personal Finance 7/7
Mighty Bargain Hunter is hosting the July 7 edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance. Here are some of the posts you’ll find on all things financial:
Passive Family Income presents Preparing for house guests and added expenses: “I have brainstormed several expenses (direct or indirect) that we will incur while my in-laws will be visiting […]
Posted: July 7th, 2008 under College, Financial Literacy, Groceries, Home and garden, In the Blogosphere.
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Don’t let college cost your home
Suze Orman has a column in the July 7 edition of The Detroit Free Press titled Don’t let college cost your home.
Suze is a popular finance author these days, and I’ve read one of her books. She says “Tapping your home equity to pay for your kids’ education is a reasonable move only if you’ve […]
Posted: July 7th, 2008 under College, Financial Literacy, In the News.
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CS Monitor: Has credit crunch hit your home equity line?
Christian Science Monitor has this story: Has the credit crunch hit your home equity line?
A snippet:
Many homeowners may receive bad news this summer, either through a letter from their lender freezing or reducing their HELOC, or when they try to tap their home equity and are denied. Some lenders are substantially reducing their exposure to […]
Posted: July 5th, 2008 under College, Financial Literacy, Home and garden, In the News.
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Student checking account perks
If your teen-ager or college student is getting ready to open his or her first checking account, do some research first about student checking account perks. You may find the terms and rates to be a lot more friendly than the accounts that are available to us parents!
My daughter started using banking services in high […]
Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Back to school, College, Financial Literacy.
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Carnival of Personal Finance 6/30
The Carnival of Personal Finance for June 30 is hosted by Greener Pastures: Personal Finance. Here are some of the more than 85 posts you’ll find this week on all things financial:
Saving Advice presents The Surprising Costs of DIY: “Usually we borrow tools from my father in law, but he didn’t have what we needed […]
Posted: June 30th, 2008 under Financial Literacy, In the Blogosphere, Military family.
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