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Financial Infidelity Can Ruin Your Relationship. Here’s How To Come Clean If You’re The One Cheating
Financial infidelity is a real thing. It can ruin relationships and financially devastate families. Addressing your financial unfaithfulness starts with honesty — which is a tough and scary thing to do. Here are a few ways to come clean after financial cheating.
A Major Economic Storm Is Looming. Here’s How To Prepare
Things are going well now, however financial experts are warning that the economic winds are changing.
Compound Interest… The Quick And Dirty
Compound interest can make you rich or it can make a bad financial situation disastrous.
These 4 Money Challenges Could Save Your Relationship
Money challenges are the ultimate team-building activities for couples. When done correctly, they can expose areas of pain and fear, open or improve lines of communication, and help you become a more disciplined unit.
5 Reasons Why Trying To Get Rich Quick Is A Waste Of Time
Chasing quick riches and instant wealth is an exercise in futility. It’s like trying to capture a purple unicorn that lives outside of the castle just beyond the end of the rainbow; it’s impossible.
5 Pitfalls You’ll Encounter Along Your Path To Financial Freedom
Living a life of frugality can be exhausting and lonely. Here are some pitfalls you can expect to encounter on your journey and tips on avoiding them.
Thinking About Retiring Early? Here Are 5 Things That Could Wreck Your Nest Egg
The earlier you retire, the longer your money has to last.
You Finally Got Your First Real Paycheck. Here’s What You Should Do Now
The old financial advice, “Pay yourself first” is still very true and should begin with your first paycheck.
Lost Your Job. Now Unemployment Benefits Are Ending. Here’s What You Should Do
The best thing to do immediately after you receive your first unemployment check is to plan on not receiving it.
6 Shopping Challenges That Will Keep You Bad & Bougie & On Budget
No matter what you’re trying to do — be “bougie on a budget,” upgrade your wardrobe, try out different styles, or give yourself a complete makeover — shopping challenges help you simultaneously accomplish your fashion and finance goals.
4 StepsTo Successfully Merging Money & Marriage
Money itself isn’t a homewrecker. It’s other issues — like communicating about money, your relationship with it, and your values associated with it — that cause problems. Here’s how to alleviate the tension associated with money matters.
Baby Boomer Parents Are Going Broke Helping Their Millenial Kids
Part of parenting is teaching children how to be resilient, creative, innovative and resourceful. Sometimes, the best way to teach them these things is by letting them go.
Jail Time For Debt Nonpayment? The Answer To This And Other Tough Debt Questions
Forget what you heard from “momma and nem.” Here are real answers to seven tough debt questions.
Here’s How To Spring Clean Your Finances
While you are in the mindset of minimizing, organizing, and cleaning out the old, you should apply those same principles to your finances.
How to Make Ends Meet When You’re Raising Your Grandkids
The trend of grandparents serving as the primary caretaker of grandchildren has not only become common but it’s also becoming the new norm. And while grandkids are a gift from God, they are a very expensive gift that can wreak havoc on a grandparent’s pocketbook.
Here’s How To Bounce Back After A Financial Crisis
The ability to survive and recover from a significant financial setback depends on how well you are prepared before disaster strikes and how flexible and proactive you are during and after the event.
30 Podcasts Every Entrepreneur Should Hear
The Podcast is an easy, efficient, and portable way to get great information.
Top Five Financial Moves Every Single Should Make
Here is a list of the top five things that every single person should do with their finances
Contemplating Selling Your Small Business? Here Are 4 Signs That It’s Time
Selling your business isn’t the end of something good. It’s the start of something better.
Here’s Why You Should Make Your 5-Year-Old Pay Rent
Fiscal responsibility is one of the greatest things you can teach your children. Failing to teach them how to handle and relate to money will create a type of poverty in them than no amount of money can fix.
Wage Garnishment: Here’s What To Do If This Happens To You
If you have fallen behind repaying what you owe, and creditors are threatening to or have already garnished your wages, here are the things you should do.
Working to Pay Off Debt? Doing These Eight Things Will Speed Up The Process
In order to get and stay out of debt, you have to shake things up. You need to change your thought patterns, financial habits, routines, and in some cases, your circle of friends.
Using A Wedding Loan To Pay For The Big Day Is A Bad Idea. Here’s Why
Marriage is a marathon, not a 100-yard dash. Instead of focusing on having the perfect wedding day focus on building a life together.
Hate Your Job? Here Are 5 Reasons Why You Should Quit
Working a job you loathe and perpetually chasing the dollar will make you far unhappier than wearing secondhand clothes and driving a hooptie.
Thinking About Having Kids? Here Are 7 Signs That You Are Financially Ready
How do you know that you are financially ready to handle the responsibility of starting a family? While there is no definitive answer to that question there are some benchmarks and indicators that can assist you in making this life-altering decision.
