Personal Finance
The Restaurant Challenge: January Totals
The first month of our Financial Diet has come to a close. Meals have been cooked, tears have been shed and pennies have been saved. It was a good month. View More...
How to Negotiate an Allowance
As a teenager, it can be hard scraping together enough cash for all the social things you want to do. You’re willing to put forth the effort to earn your own money, but View More...
Online banking and the Love/Hate Relationship
Online banking is great. It gives you 24/7 access to your accounts and is a quick reference for balances and presented items. It serves as a resource for archived statements View More...
The Restaurant Challenge: Beginning Stats
Alright, blog followers… I’ve listed the starting spending averages for our Financial Diet participants. Read ‘em and weep. THE BEGINNING Participant Avg. Spent Amanda C. $166.96 Cate R. $150.00 Amanda View More...
Financial Dieting: The Restaurant Challenge
And the gauntlet has been thrown… If you remember my entry back in November, I had a personal revelation regarding how much I spend on eating out each month (I’ve cleverly View More...
Credit Snowball
It’s the season for cold weather and snowballs. Those lovely white flakes reminded me of a great tip for getting out of debt in a timelier manner; The Snowball Plan. View More...
Financial Dieting: The NBD Purchase
We all have one. That small indulgence that really doesn’t cost all that much, and whether it’s out of convenience or want, you find yourself justifying the purchase because, hey, it’s View More...
AnnualCreditReport.com
So its website may not come with its own catchy jingle, but the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) knows credit reports. Don’t fall victim to that curly-haired French Canadian who sings View More...
Helpful Credit Sites
Would you still buy that iPod Touch on sale for $200 if it really ended up costing $333? How about those Nike Tempo shorts for $28 if you end up View More...
