Smart Shopping: Break Bad Habits Whether you love shopping or find it a drag, you may have bad habits costing you money and time. Holidays, like Black Friday and Cyber Monday, often encourage impulse buying. Changing habits takes effort, but some problems are easy to fix. Take the “never-again” pledge and save money by avoiding […]

Losing a job is bad enough, so minimize the damage to your credit By Jodi Helmer Protect Your Credit During Unemployment While polishing your resume, searching job boards, and meeting recruiters, it’s easy to ignore your credit score. But taking steps to protect your credit during unemployment makes it easier to recover financially and may […]

One of the most important financial lessons that you can learn is that debt is prison. Indeed, when you are paying interest on your debt, that money is going straight into someone else’s bank account and you receive nothing in return. Plus, paying that interest makes it harder to pay down the principal and to […]