Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
This post is a contributed post from USA.gov. See their Financial Self-Defense Kit for advice on how to build financial confidence as well as safeguard your finances. “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.” — Benjamin Franklin Your credit history is your financial reputation. And just like your professional and personal reputations, your credit history takes
Having a side job, or “side hustle” is awesome. It allows you to test your skills in areas that you wouldn’t normally get to in your day job. Plus, you get to make the rules. Your success is fully dependent on the work you put in. Depending on the type of person you are this could be a good thing or a bad thing. Almost
Taking a look at celebrity net worth is always fun. Since popular actors, sports stars, and musicians rake in some major cash it can either be inspiring or depressing to take a look at their net worth. Today we’re look at Jake Busey’s net worth. Jake Busey is an actor, producer, musician, and also son of Gary Busey. Jake is best known for his appearances
There are plenty of different ways to budget and the method that your family chooses shouldn’t be set in stone. Getting on a budget is one of the single most important things you can do to make sure your family is reaching financial goals. If you have no idea how to get started here are three types of family budgets to consider. The Zero Based
My Dad has always loved Steven Seagal movies. And as I kid I always cringed when one of his movies was on. Whether you like him as an actor or not Seagal has made quite a bit of money over the lifespan of his career and has now created some rather interesting businesses. How Much Does he Earn Per Movie? Steven Segal’s movies have amassed
I’ve seen quite a few articles lately on why you shouldn’t care about your credit score. The authors state that if you just altogether ban debt from your life that your credit score is an arbitrary number that just doesn’t matter. But it just isn’t so. While I’m definitely on the anti-debt (except for the mortgage) bandwagon I think it’s completely ridiculous to not care
Cheap vacations are kind of my thing. I don’t like to travel a lot and when I take a vacation it’s far from extravagant, which is a good thing seeing as the average family vacation can run you thousands of dollars. If you’ve been thinking up cheap vacation ideas here are a few to get you started. Camping Camping is an age old family activity
I got married earlier this year and for the most part my husband and I have the same views on money. We both hate debt, like to keep a nice cash buffer around, agree that we should actively save for retirement and mostly agree on normal household expenses. BUT (yes there’s a but) the big difference between us is that he doesn’t have quite as
Last Friday night one of the power company’s substations caught fire. The entire town had no electric from late Friday night to late Saturday night. While you would think this would be just a little inconvenience the whole town went nuts. (I actually thought it was fun and convinced my girls that this was our adventure!) There was only one store in town that had
Looking for some frugal fun for the family this summer? With kids out of school and summer routines pretty loose it’s a good idea to have a list of fund and cheap summer activities you can do as a family. Here are ten ideas to try. Host a Movie Night Throw a punch of pillows and blankets on the floor and have a family movie
