Rent-to-Own: Consider Saving Up Instead
Over Christmas, my husband’s parents came to stay with us for two weeks. We have an extra bedroom, but no bed for it. While the air mattress is fine for a couple of nights, we didn’t want my in-laws to have to sleep on it for two weeks. We’re not quite ready to buy another [...]
The Importance of Personal Money Management
Many of us were not taught the importance of personal money management when we were young. We did not learn to save, invest, allocate, or how to make our money work for us. Many of us are in debt, have no idea how we got here and do not know how to start digging ourselves [...]
I’m a firm believer that your 20s is the most important decade of your life financially. This was a driving reason on why I chose to start my blog 20smoney.com. This is a crucial decade; unfortunately, it is often the most abused decade as well. Rather than saving, investing, and building a career, many 20-somethings [...]
33 College Budget Calculators for Students: Budget Now to Reduce Your Debt
Since most colleges don’t have classes on budgeting and basic money management it’s up to students to educate themselves. This collection of 33 free student budget calculators, spreadsheets and worksheets will help students of all ages create a workable budget — plus learn some basic budgeting skills along the way!
Here’s what you’ll find:
9 Web-Based Budget [...]
3 Great Board Games To Teach Kids About Finance
At an early age, it is difficult to teach children about money. Learning comes much more easily when it is fun. Game nights are a family tradition in many households and throwing in one of these board games can combine fun with a little financial education. The board games provide the basic concept for what [...]
It is often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so ask yourself if you want your child mimicking your financial practices. It’s more important than ever to provide a solid example of financial basics and talk to your kids about money to help prevent the next generation from being in more financial [...]
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Building income streams to make more money and earn extra income is one of the four pillars of wealth building, and as such, it’s one of the primary focus of this blog. To help you get started quickly, I have gathered the best articles about making [...]
7 Ideas To Turbo Charge Your Career Today
It’s hard to think about your career with all the news about layoffs, bad economy, and volatile stock market. However, this time of turbulent is in fact a great time to position yourself for career advancement. Since I spent my career in a Fortune 500 company, ideas listed below may be less relevant for those [...]
Where To Sell Used Textbooks And Old Books Online
Selling used books is a good way to declutter your home and get some money for books that you probably won’t read again. This is even more important for college students because you could sell textbooks for a lot more than normal books, but you’ll have to do it quick because textbooks become outdated and [...]
Weekend Reading: September 21, 2008
Last week was incredible in many ways. Most notable were Lehman Brothers failure, Merrill Lynch sale, and AIG bailout. The wild swings over the last five trading days definitely woke up a few people. It’s times like these that we learn more about ourselves and help us understand if we really have our ducks in [...]
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