Category: budgeting

Cancelled or Delayed Flight? How to Be Compensated by the Airlines

You had planned a long time for your trip and were looking forward to it. Now it looks like you are going to miss out because of a cancelled flight, and it does not look like any other flights are leaving soon for your destination. After such a disappointment, all you can think about now…


Good Financial Management Helps Ensure Your Child’s Private Education

Giving your children the benefit of private education is an excellent gift. Smaller private or private religious schools have smaller classrooms, letting teachers give each child more time. A private school education, however, costs more, possibly making it difficult to find the money needed. Good financial management can help make it less challenging to keep…


Kids and Money: Yours, Mine, and Ours

By Steve Rosen From Tribune Content Agency The time for newly married couples to discover each other’s credit score should not happen when applying for a car loan or filling out mortgage paperwork while house hunting for the first time. Yet, all too often those money talks either keep getting kicked down the road or…


5 Business Lessons Entrepreneurs Know That Regular People Don’t

I spend most of my days on the computer, and when I’m not busy writing, I’m working on various entrepreneurial endeavors or interviewing and meeting with other business owners and entrepreneurs around my community and around the world for my podcast. I’ve realized in my time since leaving corporate America that entrepreneurs and small business owners…


Tips to Take the Sting out of 50% Higher Car Rental Prices

When making your travel budget, don’t assume that lodging and airfare will be your biggest expense. Now, more than ever, rental cars are shaping up to be one of the biggest—and stubbornly high—aspects of people’s vacation budgets. While airfare and lodging prices are certainly near all-time highs, rental cars are among the biggest price increases…


Liz Weston: Just Starting Out? Learn From Our Mistakes

Those of us who write and talk about money for a living tend to have our financial acts together. But that wasn’t always the case. I invited some personal finance experts to share what they wish they could have told their younger selves about money. Invest Early, Even if It’s Scary If the stock market…


Feed the Need for Financial Literacy

The demand for financial literacy education among high school students has increased in recent years. With ease of access to bank accounts and credit cards and fear of abuse, mishandling, or scamming, financial literacy has become a need for teenagers turning into adults. Only eight states have state-wide requirements for passing a personal finance course….


Millennial: A Scarcity Money Mindset Can Cost You

We all saw it at grocery stores in 2020. The shelves, once brimming with toilet paper and hand soap, were bare. We hid in our homes, deep-cleaning every surface, occasionally braving the threat of COVID-19 to hunt down the last remaining bottle of hand sanitizer in a 50-mile radius. We felt out of control, so…


How to Feed a Family of Four Across Seven Days for $200 (+ Recipes)

By Gretchen McKay From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette With grocery prices at record highs, we’ve put together a guide for a week’s worth of healthy meals There’s no getting around this simple and unpalatable fact: It’s pretty stressful to go grocery shopping these days. Thanks to the skyrocketing cost of inflation — which climbed to a 40-year…


Do You Really Need Six Months’ of Expenses in Your Emergency Fund?

The first half of 2022 has not been great. Inflation has hit a 40-year high, experts are predicting a recession, and buying a home doesn’t appear to be getting less expensive any time soon. Naturally, people are preparing for the worst, and many consider the country to be sitting on the precipice of a recession….