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5 Simple Steps to Check your Credit Report

Use these five steps to check your credit report and help increase your credit score Your credit report is like a photo album of your financial life, a snapshot of your financial past. If you’re like me, you put your financial photo album on the shelf to collect dust just as you do those other […]

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Setting Financial Goals and a Budget You Can Keep

Setting financial goals and creating a budget isn’t good enough. You have to be setting realistic financial goals and a budget you can keep. This article on setting financial goals continues to be one of the most popular on the site so I thought I would revisit it and add some details I’ve picked up […]

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How to Turn a Healthy Lifestyle into a Healthy Budget

Not only can these healthy lifestyle tips lead to saving money and a healthy budget, but they’ll add years to your life I feel like we’ve had a singular focus for the last few weeks. Last week, we talked about how regular check-ups and a little preventative care can save you thousands in medical costs. […]

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5 Favorite Stock Funds for Any Stock Market

One reader shares his favorite stock funds for investing in any stock market and how to balance out your portfolio Today’s post is a PeerStory from Shannon Eding of California. Shannon read an earlier post on investing in Motif funds and wanted to share her experience with the website and her five favorite stock funds. […]

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Three P2P Investment Risks in Peer Lending to Avoid

P2p investing is bridging the gap between stocks and bonds but you’ll need to avoid the three biggest p2p investment risks Risk-free treasury bonds are paying nothing after inflation and even junk-rated corporate debt will net you only about 4% after taxes. Stocks have been doing well but won’t go up forever, the next recession […]

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Healthy Living is Frugal Living

Don’t overlook the opportunity to live healthy, happy and save a ton of money with these healthy living tips. Nearly all of my articles will save you money. Hey, I’m the Frugal Grandma – that’s what I do. But I’m especially excited about this one because it may just save your life also. A study […]

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4 Investing Mistakes that Cost Me $30,000

One reader shares the investing mistakes that cost him tens of thousands of dollars Today’s post is a PeerStory from Robert, a reader from Kentucky that wanted to share his story after reading two of our recent posts on investing. I’m always super excited to see emails like this and get feedback from readers. That’s […]

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Investing in the Stock Market: A Smarter Way with Motif Investing

If you’re going to be investing in the stock market, make sure you do it right with long-term investments and funds with Motif Investing I posted earlier in the week something that rubbed a lot of my stock market analyst colleagues the wrong way. I argued that since most people are absolutely horrible at investing […]

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Understanding Bad Credit and Fixing your Credit Score

Understanding the credit score factors in bad credit and fixing your credit score before a loan can get you a better rate and save money We’ve all been there, either bad credit or no credit at all. There is a saying in the banking world; loans are for people that don’t need them. That’s because […]

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Travel Hacking Tips for the Frugal Traveler

Taking that next vacation doesn’t have to break your budget. Follow these travel hacking tips for the frugal traveler for travel on the cheap. I love to travel. Whether its just visiting friends in another state or headed for another country, theres nothing like a vacation to get me out of a rut. It’s gotten […]

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