It is a constant struggle from the time your child begins to learn about the green stuff until they leave home.  If your child is like most, they constantly have their hand out.  Maybe they do it diliberately but if they are quite young then they may not understand how difficult money can be to [...]

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When it comes to money, there is one number that’s more important than just about anything else - your credit score. This little number determines how much credit you get and what kind of interest rate you pay on that credit. In other words, it determines how big of a house or how nice of [...]

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A few weeks ago, we talked about 5 easy ways to save an extra $100 , now let’s look at this from a different angle and see how you could make an extra $100 a month. Not all of these will work for you, but even if you can find just one that might work [...]

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This year’s tax rebates are slowly trickling in. If you selected to have the money direct deposited, it may already be in your account, otherwise you should be getting a check from the IRS in the next few weeks. This of course brings up the question… how do you spend that money?
I’ve put together a [...]

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If you’ve been thinking about doing some remodeling and using your home equity line of credit to do so, or even if you just count on having that money available for an emergency (job loss, injury etc.) - DON’T…
Quite a few banks, including Bank Of America, Citibank and Countrywide Financial have started to either reduce [...]

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I’m so excited about this new part of “Our Family Budget”. I was looking for a quick and easy way to share even more budgeting and money saving tips with you and a blog was just the solution I was looking for.
Anytime I come across a tips, suggestion or tool that will help you save [...]

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