This helpful video series explains the importance of estate planning and walks you through the process. Watch the related videos for additional steps and more estate planning tips.
In this video financial adviser Ric Edelman explains how to avoid some common debt pit falls. Watch the related videos for more financial planning and debt reduction tips.
This is a guide about staying out of debt. The best way to not be in debt is to stay out of it in the first place but that is easier said than done. Use these helpful tips and tricks stay out of debt.
Christine Parker, a financial planner, walks you through the process of creating a budget. Be sure watch the related videos for additional information about budgeting and saving money.
This is a guide about creating a food budget. Food is a large part of just about everyone's budget. Whether you eat out a lot or always make meals at home, knowing your food budget will help you maintain your household budget.
This is a guide about creating a budget. Creating a budget allows you to see where you spend your money and helps you live within your means. With a budget you can learn how to save regardless of your income bracket.
Remember Your Membership Discounts
Use your Costco or AAA memberships for discounts on movie tickets. Both offer discounts to members. Check your benefits packages, and you may find that cheap tickets are a perk to having a membership!
Starting Over With Your Household Budget
When organizing your household budget, things can get a bit overwhelming. Do you know where your money goes? If you can't account for it, try scrapping everything you're doing with your money this month and start over.
I am not new here, but I have a problem. I don't know how to hold on to money. I get paid bi-weekly and am trying to payoff some very old debts to get my credit back together.
Keeping Track of Receipts for Taxes
I use a monthly calendar to organize my financial life. I don't use a fancy one, just one that I receive as a promotional free item. I staple all check stubs and I write the amount of my receipts on the day that I had the expense.
Here's my situation; I am currently unemployed and can't seem to find a job. I need help with money management. I need a budget. Is there a dependable budget online I could use to survive on 1600.00 a month?
Have any of you declared bankruptcy? What was the experience like for you? We are possibly going to have to declare bankruptcy for our business due to husband's poor money management skills. He won't let me see the bills.
Saving for Emergencies on a Tight Budget
How is it that I am only making $1185.00 per month, for I am on disability and I always come up short? I have done everything I can think of to budget my money to make it possible to have a few dollars to put aside for an emergency.
Teach Your Kids How to Budget by Example
Give the kids a budget for back-to-school supplies and watch the magic work. Along with a set dollar amount, I give the kids some suggestions about cutting here and spending more there and tell them they can keep any leftover money.
How can make a budget tracker without purchasing one on the internet?
Saving Money on Your Grocery Bill
Does anyone have suggestions for ways to save money these days? I am particularly interested regarding things like, food, pet products, lotions (dry skin in winter)?
Creating a Budget and Sticking To It
How do you make a budget and stick with it?
My daughter graduated this past summer and now owes over $100,000 in student loans. They are not federal loans and they want her to start paying $600 a month. Someone talked about consolidating them, but am scared she will be in further debt. Does anyone have any advice?
Why is it, that no matter how much money I have, I spend it all? I get a disability check once a month, enough to get by on, but I spend too much every month. No matter whether it is a bank card or cash, if I have it I will spend it.
When it comes to our finances, they're very abstract. Check cards and electronic bill paying don't make it much easier; the concept of exactly how much money is spent is a difficult one to grasp. In the days of cash, it was much easier to understand where our money went.
When I enter an amount taken from my checking account either by check or debit card I always enter the correct amount in the ledger but I round up the amount I deduct from the checking account.
My Frugal Life: Tell Your Money Where To Go
It was about four and a half years ago, when DH and I found out that we were expecting our second child. It was quite a surprise, given that our first one was only 6 months old!
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Starting Over With Your Household Budget
When organizing your household budget, things can get a bit overwhelming. Do you know where your money goes? If you can't account for it, try scrapping everything you're doing with your money this month and start over.
When it comes to our finances, they're very abstract. Check cards and electronic bill paying don't make it much easier; the concept of exactly how much money is spent is a difficult one to grasp. In the days of cash, it was much easier to understand where our money went.
My Frugal Life: Tell Your Money Where To Go
It was about four and a half years ago, when DH and I found out that we were expecting our second child. It was quite a surprise, given that our first one was only 6 months old!
Avoiding Charitable Bankruptcy
It feels good to donate to a charitable cause. I write the check that I know will buy the last ingredient needed to find the cure for cancer, and it feels good. Then, I write the check to help pay for books at a school ravaged by floods, and it feels good, too. Next, there are the checks to preserve historical monuments, to feed homeless puppies, to cheer co-workers during times of loss, for multiple sclerosis, for women's shelters, polar bears, fire stationsgasp. All this charitable donating is leaving me feeling broke. How can I stay charitable and stay out of the poorhouse myself?
