Budgeting for Your Next Vacation: Yaycations

Posted by Nora Dunn on Jul 4, 2009

By Nora Dunn

Yaycations

Travel Muse has a fun tool that combines the drudgery of finding money in a budget with the instantaneous gratification of discovering how your budgeting sacrifices will pay off.

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A Debtfree Holiday

Posted by admin on Jul 4, 2009

For many people, the holidays present a monumental challenge for sound financial decisions. We want to give our friends and family generous gifts so they know our love for them. This admirable desire leads to our overspending, forcing us to face the new-year burdened by additional financial stress. Financially Savvy has a few suggestions to help you start the New Year without the holiday debt.

Recapture the True Spirit of the Holiday Take a journey back to your childhood and your memories of the holiday season. What made it so special? Not the gifts; the magic of anticipation made this time of year so happy and exciting. What can you do rather than buy to help your loved ones recapture their childhood experiences of this season? For some, the smell of sugar cookies will invoke the fondest memories. For others, their favorite holiday song can bring a smile to their face. Rather than spend a fortune on a gift, call your best friends mom to find out what cookies to bake or songs to include on the CD or cassette you create for your buddy.

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Surefire Ways To Attain Moneymaking Success

Posted by admin on Jul 3, 2009

You have probably heard other people say that Money isn’t everything or Money can’t buy happiness. They may be right in some aspects; but it’s not just about the money.

It’s about having an ideal lifestyle - being able to have control over your time and schedule, having no one ordering you around, not having to look at the price tags everytime you go out shopping, and just enjoying the freedom that you truly deserve.

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Pardon My Skepticism

Posted by JLP on Jul 3, 2009

Under pressure from newspaper articles uncovering congressional expenses, Nancy Pelosi announced that congressional expsenses would be published online beginning August 31.

It turns out that the date has been pushed back to mid-November due to “concerns” about security and support. I don’t quite follow the security claim, which wasn’t discussed in the article I read in today’s Wall Street Journal. The support issue lies in the expected server demand that will result from the expenses being made available to the general public.

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Turbo Credit Software Download (Consumer Edition - Credit Repair)

Posted by admin on Jul 3, 2009

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Price : $49.95

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Typical Mistakes People Make Concerning Their Finances And How To Avoid Them

Posted by admin on Jul 3, 2009

In our day of easy access to credit cards, loans, and so many things that you must have, it is almost no wonder that so many are getting themselves into financial trouble. Everywhere we turn we face some ad that tells us we cannot live happy unless we have such and such a product. The demands are frequent that tell us we just have to have the latest or the best, but do we really have to have it? Could this be the reason for the financial troubles that so many are experiencing today - and maybe even you? Here are seven things that will help you avoid that trap of financial indebtedness.

1. Live Within Your Means

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A Debtfree Holiday

Posted by admin on Jul 3, 2009

For many people, the holidays present a monumental challenge for sound financial decisions. We want to give our friends and family generous gifts so they know our love for them. This admirable desire leads to our overspending, forcing us to face the new-year burdened by additional financial stress. Financially Savvy has a few suggestions to help you start the New Year without the holiday debt.

Recapture the True Spirit of the Holiday Take a journey back to your childhood and your memories of the holiday season. What made it so special? Not the gifts; the magic of anticipation made this time of year so happy and exciting. What can you do rather than buy to help your loved ones recapture their childhood experiences of this season? For some, the smell of sugar cookies will invoke the fondest memories. For others, their favorite holiday song can bring a smile to their face. Rather than spend a fortune on a gift, call your best friends mom to find out what cookies to bake or songs to include on the CD or cassette you create for your buddy.

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[Feature] Improving Your Credit Score

Posted by Catherine Brock on Jul 2, 2009

So how do you go about improving your credit score? Good credit is the key factor in getting the best interest rates when buying a home or refinancing a mortgage. In today’s tight credit markets, it even can determine whether you qualify for a loan at all.

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S&P 500 Weekly Wrap-Up

Posted by John J. Ray on Jul 2, 2009

Unemployment blues start the second half on a low note.


What I’ve Learned: Once A Broke Student, Now A CEO

Posted by David K. Randall on Jul 2, 2009

Hot Topic CEO Betsy McLaughlin still consults the life plan she made as a college freshman.