Who Judges You?

We’re all constantly being judged. People glance at us and form opinions about us. Our friends, our family, our vaguest associates all have ideas of what we should or shouldn’t be doing. Often, those opinions are made very clear to us – sometimes directly (when they tell us their thoughts about what we’re doing) or indirectly (when ...

Review: Your Money Ratios

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Every Sunday, The Simple Dollar reviews a personal finance book or other book of related interest.

One thing I often do when looking for books to read and review for The Simple Dollar is simply go to the “new releases” section of my local library and browse the personal finance new releases. That is exactly how I stumbled upon Your ...

Saving Money with Your Credit Cards pt 2

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Continued from part 1…

Another type of credit card that you can use to save money is one that offers frequent flyer miles or air fare rewards. Airfare is expensive, and if you fly relatively frequently then you are probably well aware of how expensive it can be to fly. One of the best possible ways that you can protect your ...

Accounts Closed by Grantor Don’t Hurt Credit Score More

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Over the last year, since the CARD Act was passed, a lot of people have had their credit card limits lowered or their cards canceled. Credit card companies, faced with these new rules, are looking to reduce their risk and so they’ve cut a lot of inactive or low activity cards (or saddled them with fees). If you recently got ...

Optimizing the Value of Your Commute

Kelly writes in:

For the first time in my life, I have a daily commute to work. I drive about 45 minutes each way to work each day of the week. According to my math, I’m going to be spending about $125 a month just on gas, let alone maintenance, upkeep, and so on. When I look at ...

Dealing with Dissatisfaction

What do you do if you’re dissatisfied with your cell phone? You find that it endlessly frustrates you. It’s constantly interrupting you. It doesn’t have the features you want. Quite often, you just want to throw it in a desk drawer and forget about it.

Quite often, in this situation, people will go shopping for a new ...

Basics of Budgeting 2

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Tracking Your Expenses

Now that you are familiar with how much income money you have coming into your home, it has become time for you to pay attention to the expenses that you have on a monthly basis. You should begin with the regular payments and the fixed payments that you make, such as your rental payment or mortgage payment, insurance ...

Best of Personal Finance Roundup: Tips and Tricks to Combat Cooking Burnout

By Linsey Knerl

Welcome to Wise Bread’s Best of Personal Finance roundup. Today, we tell you how to become inspired with your meals again, what a little bit of chalkboard paint can do for a worn-out chair, and how insulating your water pipes can save big money!  

Top 5 Articles

Tips and Tricks to Combat Cooking Burnout — If you’ve gotten ...

How to Become Prosperous the Easy Way

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For many, the concept of prosperity is foreign and unreachable. If you are stuck in a dead end job or your bills haunt your sleep, it’s easy to feel as though you will never be able to break free. As the baby boomer generation nears retirement, it has become essential for millions of people to find a way to have ...

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