Celebrate your victories

All of the personal finance websites and other financial help sites out there are pretty good at helping people to learn to control their money in a more effective way.  After you’ve learned to control your money and have done something positive with it, what do you do then?

I, for one, think that you should [...]

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5 tips to get ready for summer

If it isn’t hot already, it will be. Considering I’m in Texas, it’s been hot for a while and I couldn’t be happier with the awesome spring we had this year. With the summer season upon us, let’s jump on a series of things that need to and should be done in the summer. I [...]

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Things you need to know before leaving home

When I first left home, I was headed to college for four years.  I really enjoyed my time living away from my parents at first.  Luckily I was able to eat on campus and didn’t really understand living on your own until I got out of the dorms and into a house that I started [...]

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Fishing for financial information

Getting good information is one of the most important things people can do before they start investing.  But where do you go and who can you trust for good accurate information?  In an information age, this is extremely important because there are so many cons, fake ads, and opinions out there that it can be [...]

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Planning a 5 year plan

You’ve got to have a direction to go in your life.  A person without a direction is likened to a boat without a sail.  It goes where the wind takes it.  If your here reading about your personal finances and how to change them, then you have a goal to improve your financial life.  First [...]

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The basics

When you don’t know what to do or where to start, there is one place you should always go to.  Here are the basic things that you need to do to get your life under control and get in charge of your finances.
Make Money

Let’s really get down to it. You need to make money if [...]

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I need your input

I was reading a Money magazine two days ago and it had a ranking of some of the best money websites on the internet.  One that looked very interesting to me is Mint.com  This is a website that let’s you connect with your accounts from different companies and puts it all together into a big [...]

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Imagine Making Money

The human imagination is a very powerful thing.  For hundreds and thousands of years people have imagined things that did or could not exist.  If those people could only jump forward in time to see where we are today, the world would blow them away. 

The thing that all of the inventors and other hard workers [...]

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What to do with your refund

Since April 15th is approaching quickly lots of people are scrambling to finish working on their taxes.  There is tons of advertising telling you what to do with your refund money.  So what are some things that you can do with your refund money to make your life better.  Are you going to just blow [...]

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How to talk about money with friends

One of the most difficult things for people to do is find a listening ear when it comes to financial advice.  The whole point of this site came about because I know I can get good information to the people who want it.  This lack of listening feels twice as frustrating when it’s something your [...]

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