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Creating a good home budget is one of the most effective ways to ensure you have some financial security. Having a budget means you won’t spend more than you have, you can plan ahead and you can also make adjustments when unexpected financial events occur. But what are the key features of a good budget? Here are some characteristics of a budget that we think are the most important: (more…)

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Finding a way to have an additional stream of income, even if it is small, can be a great way to help you save for special occasions or to reduce your debts. If you can get this income stream from something you enjoy doing, then that’s all the better. Yahoo recently published a piece featuring a variety of hobbies that could make you money. From their case studies, we’ve got our own ideas for turning hobbies into dollars: (more…)

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Of course you want your wedding day to be a special one, but you don’t want to spend the next ten years paying it off. There’s a happy balance to be struck, and these tips will help you save some money on wedding costs: (more…)

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Living in today’s world, where men and women are equals in both the workplace an home, can sometimes bring up questions about yesterday’s customs. For anyone who has been on a date recently, you’re already familiar with the big one: who pays for dinner? (more…)

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We all want to fuel up for less with gas prices rising higher and higher, and no predicted relief in sight. There are various ways we can do this more cheaply and a recent article at Yahoo Finance surveyed a few different technologies that help us do so by comparing prices and getting the information we need online or even straight to our cell phone. (more…)

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With the cost of getting a good education constantly rising, many students are finding they finish college with a mountain of debts that will take quite a few years to repay - assuming they get a good job at the end of it. To improve their chances of getting a good job, many students end up studying at a more prestigious school, which is also more expensive, so they have an even larger debt: and the cycle begins. (more…)

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With so much trauma in the loans market, things were looking difficult for students for a while there: with many lenders crashing out of the market altogether, getting cheap student loans was starting to look impossible for some college students. But thanks to a new legislation recently passed through congress, there shouldn’t be any college students who find it impossible to get a reasonable college loan now. (more…)

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Headlines regularly scream about job losses and rising unemployment, but at least over at Yahoo Finance they’re trying to do something about it. They’ve just published some tips on how to make sure you keep your job, including: (more…)

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If you’re one of the many people living from pay check to pay check without having much hope of breaking the cycle of debt and repayment, you’ll be pleased to read a few tips from the experts at CNN Money. Rather than going through the obvious money saving strategies, they talk about a few ways that could net you a little extra cash and start to dig you out of the cycle. (more…)

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Focusing on making your home more energy efficient can be good for your wallet as well as for your conscious. These tips can help make your house more environmentally friendly and save you a few dollars as well. (more…)