December 30, 2011 – 11:07 am
1. Create a new budget. A new year calls for a new budget. Rolling over an existing budget might be easy, but making changes now is easier than dealing with debt in the future. Have you moved, switched insurance, or added a new family member (child or pet) in the last year? Take into account what changed [...]
December 21, 2011 – 4:08 pm
With only a few days left until Christmas, retailers are rolling out deep discounts to attract last-minute shoppers ready to click “BUY.” The so-called “flash sale” discount sites are particularly enticing. A designer bag or new tech tablet is offered in limited quantities, and a timer runs nearby telling you how much time is left. Thinking [...]
November 23, 2011 – 9:17 am
This year, the American Farm Bureau Federation is reporting an increase in the cost of a traditional Thanksgiving meal. The retail cost of menu items for a classic Thanksgiving dinner including turkey, stuffing, cranberries, pumpkin pie and all the basic trimmings increased about 13 percent this year…the average cost of this year’s feast for 10 [...]
September 23, 2011 – 10:06 am
It’s Friday, so here’s a little financial humor to close out the week. In this hilarious ad for Norwegian bank DnB NOR, a woman awakes in a five-star hotel room to discover that she has drunkenly married George Clooney, who adoringly shows her online photos of a vacation home he has picked out as a [...]
September 20, 2011 – 10:32 am
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. There are a million articles on how to save more money, but how many of them contain advice you can actually use? We distilled the best advice we’ve ever gotten into five [...]
September 15, 2011 – 12:51 pm
Spinning off Tuesday’s post, the question remains: If you do manage to cut your spending on discretionary purchases, how much money does that help you save every year? Bills.com has a nifty Ways to Save Money feature that shows you how much your savings can add up if you sock away the money in an [...]
September 13, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Being a personal-finance aficionado, I always click on those articles that promise to help cut the fat from your budget. Most recently, I was intrigued by the idea of RealSimple.com’s “24 Hours of Savings” article for finding ways to trim your spending throughout the day. However, it’s disappointing that the bulk of the advice seems [...]
September 9, 2011 – 9:30 am
You’ve seen those commercials on TV that proclaim, “For just 50 cents per day, you can change someone’s life.” And while some of those charities are no doubt worthy, what if the life you could change were your own? This is not a gimmick. To see how spare change can add up, I was just [...]
September 6, 2011 – 12:08 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. There’s a difference between dating cheap and being cheap — we’re not endorsing the latter, but there are many ways to show your crush a creatively good time without emptying your wallet. [...]
August 16, 2011 – 4:05 pm
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. At the beginning of the summer, we brought you our tips on finding your first apartment. Now it’s time to make your space your own. Read on for our advice for doing [...]
