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8 Tips for Improving or Starting a Budget

Whether your current budget could use some tweaking or you're trying to get your finances sorted out for the first time, these suggestions can help you build a better budget.

3 Ways Student Loan Debt Can Affect Your Mortgage Application

Many factors can sway a mortgage approval. Your student loan debt is one of them.

Choosing Your Path to Prosperity

You can enter a room where you could find wealth immediately, or one where you'll definitely find it...but the search might take years. Which do you choose?

Does Your Net Worth Even Matter?

You may not be raking it in like Warren Buffett, but yes, your net worth still matters.

7 Biggest Ways Procrastination Hurts Your Finances

Do you like to wait until the last minute? Well, your bad habit could be costing you — literally.

Ask the Readers: What's the Biggest Item in Your Budget?

Tell us your biggest budget item for a chance to win 1 of 3 $20 Amazon gift certificates!

5 Customer Service Battles You Just Can't Win

Put your phone scripts away, give up escalating, and don't bother screaming because whatever happens, you're not getting your money back.

Spring into Cleaning Now

Trade your annual spring cleaning for deep-cleaning individual rooms more frequently to save time, lessen allergies, and keep your house looking great.

Best Money Tips: Ways to Deal With Student Loan Debt

Today we found some awesome articles on dealing with student loan debt, feeling less stress, and money moves for the fall.

20 Ways to Entertain Your Kids for Free

Mom! Dad! I'm bored! Not anymore with this list of fun — and free — games and activities that will entertain everybody.

8 Biggest Regrets of New Homeowners

Buying your first home should be a happy occasion, so don't end up kicking yourself by making these homebuying blunders.

Here's Why a Late Retirement May Be a Bad Idea

Didn't save enough in your working years? You may be banking on a late retirement, but life can have other plans.

7 Times You Shouldn't File an Insurance Claim

Insurance is there to protect you from costly damages to your home and car. But sometimes, it's best not to file a claim at all.

8 Free Apps to Boost Your Online Productivity

From image manipulation to social media blockers, this collection of useful apps will help you and your PC get more done.

How to Preserve Critical Vendor Relationships

Monitoring cash balances is essential and withholding payments until the last moment may be necessary, but be careful: being slow to pay  may alienate you from vendors.

Best Money Tips: Save Money After Your Baby is Born

Today we found some awesome articles on ways to save after your baby is born, how to teach kids about money, and places to buy cheap travel supplies.

The 5 Most Amazing Secret Santa Gifts Ever

Most holiday Secret Santa exchanges have a modest max spending limit — but not these!

Best Money Tips: Get an Inexpensive Workout

Today we found some great articles on inexpensive ways to get a workout, how to have a successful garage sale, and how to buy more house for less money.

3 Components of Financial Clarity

How many businesses really have a handle on the past, the present, and the future? Only with an understanding of all three of these things are entrepreneurs empowered with the c

Book Review: The Ultimate Tech Guide for Travelers

Making sure your technology is safe while you're on-the-go can be nerve-racking, but The Ultimate Tech Guide for Travelers can help.