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Are you going to sell or buy a new property? Do you know about the process of conveyancing? What is conveyancing? This is a legal process of transferring the name of the owner into the name of the buyer through paperworks. How much time it takes to overcome the process? Initially the process seems to …

This is a guest post from Dianne Aarnink.  After saving enough money to take a year off, Dianne recently said adios to her life as a corporate CPA. She is chronicling her year of blissful unemployment over at Skinny Seahorse. You can also find her designing blogs at Skinny Mermaid.
How to Start a Blog
Have you found yourself thinking about starting a blog? In recent years, it has become a popular pastime as well as a source of income for some…

Destroy Your Debt With the Mortgage Murder Spreadsheet
Club Thrifty – Stop spending. Start living.Do you hate being in debt? So do we. Do you want to destroy your mortgage ASAP? Us too. Have you been searching for a mortgage prepayment calculator that can show you how making extra monthly payments will affect the length of your loan? We hear you…

Do you ever get bombarded with questions along the lines of “Do you pay for T.V.?”  It seems to happen more in the spring and summer time for me.  Maybe because I attend more fairs and people-oriented fun things where there … Continue reading →The post Do you Pay for T.V.? appeared first on Financial Black Sheep…

I’ve seen a number of confessional-type posts around the interwebs the last few weeks and thought I’d join in on the fun. To be honest, I am not certain exactly where the original one started. I know that I read one from Johnny over at Johnny Moneyseed as well as Macknenzie over at The Random Path…

This is a guest article by Patrick from Deposit Accounts.  If you are interested in contributing to Debt RoundUp, please follow our guidelines.
There exists a great deal of debt among individuals in the United States. Are you tired of hearing this mantra from the financial pundits and talking heads? Let’s beat the dead horse just one more time, though, and take a look at the debt graphic below from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s November 2012 quarterly report…

So tax day has come and gone, and you are likely in a couple of different boats.

You may be getting a refund and already thinking of how to spend it.
You could be writing a check to the feds and state.
You could have postponed the inevitable.

They say that taxes are one of those certainties in life…

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Over the last few months I’ve been making an effort to use coupons to help save on groceries, household items, and other essentials of life. It’s obviously one of those things that you get out of it as much as you put into it. It takes time to dig through the local ads as well as websites to find coupons that match the products that my family actually uses…

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Recently, I have been receiving many questions about how our financial goals have changed since we now are making more income than we used to make. Even Jordann made a post last week titled How to Spend Your Extra Income.  We definitely need to adjust our financial goals. This is mainly because of all of the side hustles that I am doing, especially since how last month I made nearly $8,000 in extra income…

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For single parents or dual-income families, child care is on the list of major expenses. A Child Care Aware of American study in 2012 detailed average child care costs across the nation. The results are astounding.
According to the study, the average annual cost of full-time, center-based care for an infant ranged from $4,600 to $15,000, varying across the country…