budgeting

Budgeting

I Spent a Week Learning to Do a Spending Fast

Try a spending fast to hit the reset button on your finances, reflect on your spending habits and boost your savings.  Try a spending fast to hit the reset button on your finances, reflect on your spending habits and boost your savings. 

Managing Money

A Good Financial Checkup Starts with the Right Questions

A financial checkup is important at every age — even in your 20s and 30s. Find out what to ask yourself and a financial expert about saving money at this stage in life.  A financial checkup is important at every age — even in your 20s and 30s. Find out what to ask yourself and a financial expert about saving money at this stage in life. 

Managing Money

Should You Have a Cash Back Card in Your Wallet?

Get to know the types of cash back credit cards that are out there, and find the one that may be right for you. Get to know the types of cash back credit cards that are out there, and find the one that may be right for you.

Managing Money

How a Positive Mindset Can Affect Your Wallet

Navigating your finances is about more than balancing your accounts — it also takes positive thinking to help set you up for financial success. Navigating your finances is about more than balancing your accounts — it also takes positive thinking to help set you up for financial success.

Food

Shop the Farmers Market Like a Regular

Pick up these tips for navigating your local farmers market. Pick up these tips for navigating your local farmers market.

Budgeting

7 Goals to Set for Smarter Saving

These seven simple tips could help put you on the right track to smarter saving — and spending. These seven simple tips could help put you on the right track to smarter saving — and spending.

Small Business

How to Survive – and Thrive – in the Business Slow Season

If summer is a slow season for your business, here are smart ways to make the most of this downtime and avoid the summertime revenue blues. If summer is a slow season for your business, here are smart ways to make the most of this downtime and avoid the summertime revenue blues.

Balance

Balancing Act: Meeting Life and Financial Goals

Squeezing in work, family and personal projects is a real balancing act. Here’s how one family satisfies financial goals and personal wanderlust. Squeezing in work, family and personal projects is a real balancing act. Here’s how one family satisfies financial goals and personal wanderlust.

Smart Moves

Get Your House Sale in Order: How to Save on Closing Costs

Smart and simple ways to approach, manage and minimize the cost of selling your home. Smart and simple ways to approach, manage and minimize the cost of selling your home.

Retirement

Fun Ahead: Planning for the Future of Retirement

Don’t ride off into the sunset just yet — plan ahead for the future of retirement, which is less about slowing down and more about shaking up lifestyles. Don’t ride off into the sunset just yet — plan ahead for the future of retirement, which is less about slowing down and more about shaking up lifestyles.