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By Mary Hunt
7 Big Money Mistakes to Avoid
I’m going to guess you’ve made a financial mistake or two in your life. Who hasn’t? For some of us, it was more than an occasional late fee or random urge to overspend that brought us to our financial knees. But I’m not talking about the kind of blunders that got us into trouble—we could list those in our sleep. Instead, I want to focus on the mistakes people make while they’re working their way back to financial health. Whether you’re recovering from a season of unemployment or from a financial mess you created on your own, avoid these goofs and you’ll get where you want to go much faster.
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By Mary Hunt
It’s hard to imagine what life was like before the Internet. Yet as wonderful as it is to have so much information so readily available, it can be overwhelming. Take “grocery coupons,” for example. Type that into Google and you’ll get 19 million results. Search “budget” at Yahoo and up pop 1.25 billion options!
To narrow the field, here are 21 websites to help you save—I’ve even included a couple of great coupon sites, so you won’t have to sift through all those Google results.
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FHA housing loans are perhaps the most important and popular choice for a lot of people in the United States right now. Because of the economic crisis, a lot of people suffer financially. They are hard pressed to get… Read More »
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By Crystal Tate
Nowadays, we could all use a little bit of extra cash. However, many people have no idea that unclaimed money is waiting with their name on it. In state treasuries alone, 1 in 10 people are owed money from places like banks, former employers and unclaimed tax refunds. If you answer “yes” to any of the questions below, you might be eligible for free dough.
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By Mark P Cussen, CFP, CMFC Economists are saying that the recession is over, but several major banks recently stated that the default rate on their credit cards were at an all-time high, and likely to get worse. According to a Reuters report, credit card defaults are attributed to…
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By Mary Hunt
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I know what you’re thinking: simplify and finances in the same sentence? Ha! Like that’s even possible when we have credit cards, bank accounts, bills, bill-paying options, fees, penalties and interest rates to keep track of! How can we possibly make our finances simple? By knowing the right tricks. Choose to become accountable, then use every tactic you can to streamline—and destress— your financial life. If you can pare things down in the following areas, you’re well on your way.
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Out of all the many informative materials
I have come across while searching on the internet, I don’t think I
spent as much time on anything else as I have researching sites
that have tips on how to repair bad credit. It wasn’t really
all that hard, mind you, since the topic easily has… Read More »
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If you owe anyone money, you pay them first before yourself.
In my case that would be the $3000 dept that I have left tearing up my credit score! It's not as much as a lot of people’s dept but boy; you should see my credit score...its bad!
My conscious keeps…
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I've heard other reporters chuckle when I suggest that one of the biggest priorities for job seekers with their resumes should be spell-checking and proofreading. "No duh" is the implied message. But what seems obvious is often a surprising obstacle.
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No Typo Is Harmless
A recent survey by the financial staffing firm Accountemps shows that three out of four executives (76%) said just one or two typos in a resume is enough to knock applicants out of the running for hiring consideration.
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Oh, you bet they are.
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Now that credit flows less freely, and customers are struggling to pay off debt in a tough economy while Congress has taken a tougher stance with credit card companies, the companies are mining the data available to them about how and where we spend. Then, as this fascinating New York Times Magazine story shows, they are using some very basic psychology training to figure out what it all means when dealing with customers one on one. Read More »- Let’s talk: Comment (31) | Blog
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