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Save Money On That Very Special Event!

Tweet Budget conscious consumers are sometimes faced with a dilemma when a special event comes to town: do they pay full price for the circus, fair, or play and risk

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You Can Save Money For A Down Payment

Tweet Homeownership Is Still Within Your Reach America is coming out of a strange fog, one that first settled down on our country during the heady days of the 1990s.

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Save Money, But Not At Your Bank

Tweet Consumers who want to save their future, are in a bind these days. Hammered by the stock market, seeing the financial crisis eat into their savings, and still wanting

Home Tips

Don’t Scare Your Pets To Death This Hallowe’en!

The Hallowe’en season offers a frightening good time for children and adults, as entire families play “dress up” and enjoy a day filled with hayrides, pumpkins, candy, and other harvest related events.

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How To Save Money On Entertainment Costs

Tweet A topsy-turvy stock market has a lot of people concerned and for good reason: no one is quite certain what the impact of these movements will be. Given that

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GMAC Ushers In Tougher Auto Financing Restrictions

Tweet GMAC — once known as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the financing arm for GM — announced recently some changes that may impact whether you can finance your next

Education Tips

Forget December! Car Deals Abound In October.

Tweet After tallying up September 2008 new car sales, automotive manufacturers quickly concluded that waiting until December to run calendar year ending sales just wasn’t going to cut it, especially

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During A Crisis, Mortgage Scammers Abound

Tweet When an economic crisis hits – whether personal or national – there is a certain group of people who come out of the woodwork, just like cockroaches, scammers who

Education Tips

Can Coupons Still Bring Big Savings Your Way?

Tweet Coupons have long been a staple of American life, offering clippable savings on a wide variety of food, clothing, entertainment, and personal items. When I was young, coupons ranging

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What You Need To Know About The FDIC And Your Money

Tweet The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created in 1933 to provide deposit insurance for America’s banking system. Reporting directly to the federal government, the FDIC was put into

Education Tips

Bundle Your Bills To Save Big Bucks

Tweet Consumers looking to reduce household expenses can find savings by reviewing their monthly bills and seeing which ones can be bundled together. In times past phone, cable, and cellular

Home Financing

If You’re Qualified, Buying A Home Now Is Smart!

Tweet Talk of a $700 billion federal bail out; the collapse of Washington Mutual, Wachovia, and Merrill Lynch; as well as uncertainty about the coming presidential election has cast a

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Are You Anxious? Throw A Party!

Tweet You’ve just logged on to read your third quarter 401(k) statement and the news is not pretty. In fact, with your net loss pushing 20%, you imagine that it

Education Tips

Mortgage Crisis? Beware of the Predatory Lender!

Tweet With the U.S. housing market experiencing one of its worst downturns in memory, consumers who are in a position to refinance their mortgages in a bid to improve their

Credit Cards

You Can Still Find Excellent Credit Card Offers

Tweet If your credit is excellent or very good, you can still find some credit card deals that are worth taking. Over the past many months, credit requirements have tightened