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Along my financial journey in life, I made a great number of mistakes. In this ten part series which runs from July 19 to July 30, I’m going to focus on ten of my worst mistakes and the difficulties and successes I’ve had in overcoming those mistakes. I treated my credit card as my emergency fund. In late 2004, the brakes ...  Since passing my CFP® exam, more and more of my friends are coming to me for financial advice. Sometimes they have a specific question, sometimes they want to create a plan to get out of debt, and sometimes they just want some advice on how to manage their finances going forward. No matter what they ask for, I always start ...  Every Sunday morning for the next few months, I’m going to “riff” on a chapter from my book, The Simple Dollar: How One Man Wiped Out His Debts and Achieved the Life of His Dreams by reflecting on particular pieces of it that I’ve had further reflections on or particularly excite me, including some elements that were removed from the ...  I had a really bad banking experience last week – actually, it took place over 7 days and is still not quite over. I was going to blog about it and rat out the bank, but then some halfway decent customer service changed my mind. When I logged into my account today and saw YET ANOTHER FEE, I changed it back ... 
ShareThis Creating a budget is a lot like going on a diet. You begin full of hope and enthusiasm. Every pound lost is a victory. You probably tweet it while you’re still on ... Budget. To some people, budget is a dirty, ugly, disgusting word. It was the same for me. I?ve tried using several different budgeting methods in the past using anything from spreadsheets to budget building software. All of them left me frustrated at the end of the month. I?d use them for maybe a month or two and then decide that I ...  When someone is first enter the world of finances, they will need to learn some new basic finance skills. Unfortunately, many teenagers and young adults get to college without having a clue about some basic personal finance tasks. You might make a lot of bad money choices, but if you have some basic financial knowledge, you can minimize your mistakes. ... 
As parents, most people focus on the basic lessons of life, and may not be covering important financial lessons that could last a lifetime. Successful adults are usually those that were trained early on in proper management of their money, and developed an early respect for a dollar. If you have not yet implemented a plan to start teaching your ... |
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Ask the Readers: What will You Buy with Your Tax Refund? (Win Turbo Tax Prizes!)
By Linsey Knerl
We’ve already asked whether you look forward to tax time, and people are just now starting to see their refunds (or bills) filtering through their home offices. We want to know what you plan on doing with that refund — if you get one. OR what you believe people should be doing with their refunds. (Now’s ...