With the Treasury starting to send out tax rebate checks this week, retailers have started clamoring for your business. To entice you to spend your new found money at their stores, many retailers are offering bonuses and discounts if you spend your tax rebate check with them. Many retailers, for example, are offering [...]
With gas prices nearing $4 a gallon, saving money on gas is more important than ever. Fortunately, there are a lot of relatively simple and inexpensive things you can do to save money on gas. What follows is a list of 25 ways to reduce what you pay at the pump:
Car Maintenance
Replace a [...]
Online retirement calculators come in all shapes and sizes. Some retirement calculators are extremely simple and provide little in the way of helpful information you can use to plan for retirement. Others are complex affairs that require an advanced degree from MIT to use. What follows are 11 online calculators for retirement [...]
Important Update: We are currently out of ING Direct referral links. You can, however, check out our list of high yield savings account options. A great option is Everbank, which pledges that its rates are in the top 5%. You can learn more about Everbank’s online accounts and apply online at [...]
Over the past week I’ve written a series of articles about the most important personal finance habit to develop, spending less than you make. To recap, here are the articles:
How to Develop the Habit of Spending Less Than You Make
51 Painless Money-Saving Tips
A Simple Approach to Budgeting
10 Online Budgeting Tools
The reader response to these [...]
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Saving too much for retirement: Apparently, some are saving too much money for retirement, which Walter Updegrave discusses in this article. Is it really possible to save too much for retirement? Wouldn’t too much money simply enable you to retire sooner?
Big drop in home prices predicted: [...]