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5 Questions to Ask Your Credit Card Company

If you are either shopping for a credit card or unsure of how your credit card works, consider asking these 5 questions:

Do You Need Financial Earthquake Insurance?

While conservative savings and insurance protection aren’t the most exciting part of financial planning, they are the most important.

How Do You Make Financial Decisions?

From my experience, those who have a process for making decisions tend to make good ones.

Don’t Make Jeb Bush’s Mistakes…With Your Investments

Regardless of what you think of Bush’s policy positions, his investment positions leave much to be desired.

Living Paycheck to Paycheck? Here Are 4 Places to Find Money

Before you resign yourself to working until you’re 70 or paying on your student loans until kingdom come, take a look at some of these money leaks and see if you can’t find some extra cash to accelerate your goal timeline.

What A New Baby Really Needs

Thinking through your baby’s needs vs. wants can go a long way in driving down costs.

The Four Pillars of Making Habits That Stick

By changing my own habits, including my inner dialogue about myself and my income, how I managed my cash flow and how much I saved and invested, I altered my own trajectory.

Why You Need a Plan B

You never know when you might need a contingency plan, and waiting until you need it might leave you in a vulnerable position.

5 Ways to Make the Most of Eating Out

Here are some ways to reduce the cost and make the most of the money you do spend:

3 Clever Ways to Trick Yourself Into Saving Money

Here are a few tricks I use to keep me on the straight and narrow when I’m tempted to raid my emergency savings: