Good Advice On How To Better Manage Your Own Money + MORE

Ematic’s Genesis Prime makes trying out a tablet more affordable, and reviews suggest it’s better than most competing devices near that price.Here’s what you get: It has a 1.1GHz processor, which a New York Times review says “would have been top of the line a couple of years ago.” Users may see some slowdown when using it for streaming video, it adds…

The connectivity of the Internet brought many tools to help manage budgets and finances, but the information available online also helped people save quite a bit of money.
I value experiences much more than stuff these days. But still, I’m able to keep so much more of my hard earned money every time I shop…

An Individual Pension Plan is a type of defined benefit pension plan that many successful entrepreneurs may want to consider for their retirement as an alternative to RRSPs.  The reason that RRSPs can be a insufficient on their own is that the allowable contributions are limited to 18% of your income, up to a maximum of $23,820 in 2013 and $24,270 in 2014…

For two decades, I’ve been managing my own money. It all started when I saved up $3,000 from random minimum wage jobs to open up an online trading account under my father’s guidance. This was in the early 90′s when Charles Schwab first came out. One time I bought a company which I thought sold software, but was actually a bank! Clearly, I had no idea what I was doing…

With summer coming up, consumers once again want to figure out how to save more money on their home energy costs. Indeed, saving money on home energy becomes more important during winter and summer, when more extreme temperatures demand more from air conditioners and furnaces.
Looking for ways to cut your costs is smart, but you need to be careful…

There are tons of frugal living tips out there. TONS. Some make a lot of sense, others make you think “Huh. That’s…interesting.” Then there are tips that cause you to jump up and go, “Wow! I can’t wait to try it out!” and it turns out that the tip is, indeed, as great as you thought it might be…

This month is Insurance Month in the series Naked With Cash. Each month, seven Consumerism Commentary readers anonymously share their financial reports to gain insight about their progress towards their goals. Read this introduction to learn more about the series. LastDollar is thirty-three years old, an entrepreneur and single mom with two children with learning differences in private school…

Getting the word out about your business doesn’t mean you have to spend hundreds on social media gurus or buy advertising on local networks. There are a number of ways to direct attention to your services that will cost you little or nothing. Use these tips to find yourself some free or cheap promotion:
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Students and parents may desire a 4 year degree from a prestigious private college, but the average yearly tuition for private institutions is about $36,000 per year. Even 4 year state colleges run about $10,000 per year for in-state residents, contributing to the average $27,000 of debt students in the United States graduated with in 2011…

A few times a week, I’ll hear from a reader who’s really worried about imminent economic collapse. They’ll usually send me a video or a link of some sort in which some economist is talking about how the stock market is about to lose almost all of its value or something similar.
One example of this I’ve seen three times in the last few days is this article from moneynews…

Got a good email from a reader which I’m sure a lot of you can appreciate – myself included. Some days I’m on point with all this goal stuff, and other times I just wanna quit and be done with it. It can be exhausting staying focused for years and years to come, not to mention DECADES! It’s not easy to stay on top of…
Here’s what our friend wrote:
I am currently running a house, paying off the mortgage, holding down a steady good paying job and running a budget…

The following is the latest post in my “Reader Profiles” series. Each post in this series details the financial situation and challenges of an FMF reader. The purpose of this series is to help us all identify with people like us (in similar situations — not all will be, of course, but eventually I’m sure you will find someone like you here), get to know the frequent commenters on the site, and hear some financial wisdom/challenges from people other than me…

This post was written in part by Ryan from Cash Money Life.
Mother’s Day will soon be here!
The good news is that the nature of Mother’s Day isn’t about buying expensive trinkets or wowing Mom with an over the top production.
Mother’s Day is about family and togetherness.
These ideas are just a few of the many ways you can show Mom you love her without blowing the budget…

There is no doubt about it. House hunting is not an easy process. Not only is it time consuming, but it’s also financially and emotionally draining.
Driving around from house to house and sacrificing your time (entire days, sometimes) to being disappointed because the listing just isn’t what it looked like online can really kick your budget to the curb, and in a seller’s market, there’s a good chance that you’ll end up less than thrilled with the negotiations and bidding wars on a home that you became attached to because it seemed just perfect for your family…

This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. If you want people to read your investing-related post or book, you’ll increase your chances by mentioning Warren Buffett in your title…