Tips and Tricks for Achieving a Paperless Biz + MORE

Every year I review my home insurance policy to make sure I’ve got the proper coverage. The reason why it’s important to check is because insurance policies change all the time. There might be discounts or special offerings for one. Meanwhile, your insurance company might slip in some extra charges without you even knowing…

Do you have a big event, travel, a must have or emergency type situation? Here we listed some quick fixes that will show you how to save money fast. Tips that will help you now and some that will keep saving you money in the future.
1. Electricity is most likely the biggest utility you have, and it is the easiest to control…

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) picked a new winner this week: stay-at-home spouses and “partners”. If you stay at home while your spouse or partner brings home the bacon, you can soon use household income when applying for a credit card.
Like it or not, the new and controversial CFPB dictates what the financial industry can and cannot do…

More than half the 257 packages of raw ground turkey tested in a new Consumer Reports investigation contained fecal bacteria.The report said:Some samples harbored other germs, including salmonella and staphylococcus aureus, two of the leading causes of foodborne illness in the U.S. Overall, 90 percent of the samples had one or more of the five bacteria for which we tested…

A friend of mine once lamented publicly: “When did the standard restaurant tip change from 15 percent to 20?” Sure, I remember paying typically 15 percent for a tip when I first started dining out with my friends. That was when I gained my first sense of independence from my parents twenty years ago, as a teenager in high school…

Anyone serious about developing a location-independent career or minimizing office chaos will inevitably stumble unless they make a serious effort to become as paperless as possible. While I’ll be the first to admit that I’m still tackling my personal addition to sticky notes, I have made significant gains in my ongoing battle to have a paperless career…

Over the last couple of weeks gold prices have fallen through the basement or what technical analysts might call a “resistance point”.  While the “gold bugs” out there are trying to maintain that “this time will be different” (I love when that phrase is used by people in the investing world – it’s almost never different by the way) relative to the steep declines that gold saw in 1980 and every other time gold has had a large run to some extent…

So you are in the market for a new car. Maybe your old one broke down and you’ve had it with the pricey repairs. Maybe you’re buying your first car and need some guidance. Or maybe you have grown out of your old car because your needs have changed.
No matter what your situation is, it’s difficult to choose which car will suit your needs…

On the outside, I look like a normal twenty something. I live in a run of the mill, one bedroom apartment in a boring commercial neighborhood. I dress pretty normal and sport a nice buzz cut hair style. I drive a car that blends right in with my peers. I even travel here and there like my recent trip to California along with a planned trip in 3 weeks to Florida…

This is a post from staff writer April Dykman. For many, owning a home is still “the American dream.” According to Gallup’s annual Economy and Personal Finance survey, 56 percent of Americans own a home and 25 percent plan to purchase one in the next 10 years. But sometimes buyers fall in love with a home, only to find out that they don’t qualify…

One of the biggest contributors to high electric bills is summer air-conditioning. That should make finding ways to lower your air-conditioning usage a necessity. There are ways you can do this without investing a lot of time or spending a lot of money.
1. Make your home as airtight as possible.
Most of us are well acquainted with the idea of weatherproofing our house for the winter, but it often seems to be less important in dealing with the summer heat…

To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction – Newton’s Third Law of Motion
Whenever you choose to spend money on one thing – an action – you have that much less money to spend on another thing – a reaction.
It works for time, as well.
Whenever you choose to spend time on one thing – an action – you have that much less time to spend on another thing – a reaction…

There has been a lot of news lately about Inspiration Mars, a private, non profit project that is raising money to send a couple to Mars.
In case you haven’t read the deets, basically this company wants to train and send one man and one woman, preferably a married couple, on a trip to the planet and back…

As a teenager, I enjoyed going to dances. I liked dancing and hanging out with my friends. And, even though fashion and makeup aren’t things I’ve ever really been into, I still thought it was fun to dress up for formals like prom.
With spring comes prom season, and many families are getting ready — and saving up…

Having a full-time job is usually enough for most people. For others, there is a need or desire to make more money on top of the income from their full-time job. Increasing your income and making more money can help pay down debt, build up your emergency fund or invest, or help you make purchases that you otherwise would not be able to afford…

Just a programming note that I will be changing my posting schedule for the summer. Instead of a new post every day, I’ll now be posting something new every weekday. Yep, I’m taking the weekends off! I’ll be doing this in May through August for sure, and may extend it if I like the pace better. 🙂
Hope you all have a great summer!

Do you know how HARD it is to bring in 5,000+ coins to a changer machine? And then wait there hearing the cling an clangs forever and the machine breaking every two minutes while you’re back is trying to recover? Haha… It’s a good problem to have I guess 😉
Although to be fair, it wasn’t *true* spare change like my previous trips to the coin counters (aka my bank who doesn’t charge any fees – no more Coinstar for me!!)…

There are many ways to learn about personal finance: attending seminars, talking with experts at panels, taking classes on specific topics, reading blogs (ahem!), watching videos or TV programs — and reading books!
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