Frugal Meal Ideas - Home Finance
When gas and grocery prices are rising it can be challenging to make up the difference in your home finance family budget. A terrific way to make ends meet without changing your family's routine is to become more aware of how much you spend per meal. [... more]
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Make your list of financial resolutions specific
Now with the holidays firmly behind us, it's time to focus on the upcoming year and start compiling our list of resolutions for 2009! Some of these are no doubt familiar; stop smoking, pursue a more healthy lifestyle, exercise more often, lose 20 ... [... more]
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Dealing with Home Finance Emergencies - Home Finance
Sometimes, despite the enormous amount of time we spend budgeting and spending sensibly, our home finances become an emergent situation. The way we overcome the resulting effects on our finances depends in part on the event that threw us off ... [... more]
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The Money Value of Time - Home Finance
If you are like most people, your to-do list is packed with more tasks than you can possibly complete. Many of the items on our to-do lists can be accomplished by either performing the work ourselves or by hiring a professional to do the job. How ... [... more]
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Helping Teens Become Money Savvy - Home Finance
While the popular media all too frequently glorify teens as the "ultimate consumers", many teenagers are become increasingly attuned to the importance of personal finance. For teenagers who are in the midst of completing high school or have [... more]
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What are 529 Plans?
It is no secret that the cost of college tuition is rapidly outpacing the cost of living. Therefore, it is essential for parents to map out a targeted strategy for saving and investing money for their children's higher education as early as ... [... more]
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Give Our Modern Envelope System A Try - Home Finance
Way back when, before the advent of debit and credit cards as the preferred payment method (and the influx of VISA commercials making you look like an idiot if you use cash), we used to use the envelope system. We carried some cash for spending ... [... more]
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Budgeting Irregular Paychecks - Home Finance
It's pretty easy to create a budget when you bring home a regular paycheck. Just match expenses to income for a certain period and you're all set. The only tricky part is making sure income exceeds expenses! But what do you do if your pay is ... [... more]
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Vacation On A Budget - Home Finance
Is a family vacation part of your budget? Think you can't afford to go away every year? Think again. You can enjoy a great vacation every year with just a little bit of planning and some creativity. It's a lot harder to come up with $1500 for a ... [... more]
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Analyzing Your Financial Situation - Home Finance
It is difficult, if not impossible, to set goals for your financial future if you have no clue about your present financial situation. Unfortunately, most people truly believe they fully understand their current financial status. The average ... [... more]
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Trouble Paying Your Bills? - Home Finance
At one time or another we may be faced with bills that we cannot pay. We may be coasting along fine and then we are hit with an unexpected curve ball that throws us into the perilous world of temporary poverty. That curve ball might be an ... [... more]
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