I felt like I was constantly going to wedding a few years ago. Every week from late June to early August, it seemed, a cousin or a sibling or a friend was tying the knot. The bills to celebrate all this happiness with your friends and family racked up pretty quickly too. I’m hardly alone […]
We talk about avoiding financial infidelity all the time, but how well do we actually share financial information? The indication is that most of us aren’t very good at it. According to a survey reported by CNBC, close to 40% of baby boomers have spent more than $500 without letting their significant others know. On […]
What would you tell the future you if you had a chance to say anything financially related? Would it be about the steps you are taking now to build a better financial future for yourself? Would you be embarrassed to admit that you aren’t doing enough? I was given the chance to make “a video […]
Most of us fall into two camps when it comes to filing our taxes: those who are super organized and file their tax return as soon as possible, and those who barely manage to scrape their paperwork together by April 15th. Then again, not everyone who waits for the deadline is disorganized. Some people wait […]
Just because February is almost here doesn’t mean you should already be neglecting to improve your finances. In fact, no matter your resolutions (or if you’ve already abandoned them), it’s always a good idea to work on your finances. If you’re looking for ways to tweak your budget to better effect this year, then here […]
There’s talk that consumer credit card debt may set a record and potentially exceed $1 trillion this year. We already set another record, with the largest net increase in consumer debt since 2007 ($80 billion). Wow! But should we see accumulating more credit card debt this year as inevitable? I, for one, don’t think so. […]
