Saving

Having a hard time saving money each month? Join the millions of individuals nationwide who face the same issue. A survey by Bankrate.com indicated that 27 percent of Americans do not have an emergency fund in place — no rainy-day fund at all....

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From cutting down your beverage consumption to switching the way you pay at the checkout, there are many ways to tame your everyday spending. The following info graphic breaks down the easiest ways to save this year so you can...

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Identifying the difference between the things you want and what you really need is a key aspect to sticking to your budget, but there are plenty of clever “lifehacks” to make the process a whole lot more rewarding and less...

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Looking for a way to transform your financial standing this year? Turn last year’s biggest financial weaknesses into this year’s gain. Here’s how. Use your annual budget data to plan against pitfalls. Seeing the sum total of your spending for...

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With the holidays’ smorgasbord of excess behind us, it’s probably a good time to consider where we can cut back in 2014. A reader sent in a well-timed question this week, asking which major budget area – housing, food, or...

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Spending hours each day with family, avoiding expensive daycare costs or simply working poolside with a laptop are dreams many would love to make their reality. Unfortunately, one of the downsides of working from home is having too much freedom,...

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The Detroit News’s Funny Money columnist Brian O’Connor had a couple of problems: he needed a fresh idea for his column, and the family budget was always too tight. Putting those together, he came up with the $1000 Challenge, an award-winning series...

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Recognizing you may need professional money help is the first step in the right direction towards better financial health. Sometimes, getting to that first step can be tricky. How do you know if you actually need help? We all know...

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It doesn’t matter whether you make $20,000 per year or $200,000 per year. Having a budget will improve your life in the long term. Unfortunately, the term “budgeting” makes people think of limiting their fun and restricting their choices, but...

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If you’re a furloughed federal worker or anyone who’s lost a job, your best approach to staying solvent is to systematically rethink your spending. Your new guiding principle: Spend as little as possible until you’re working again and are back on your...

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