Budgeting & Saving
Two important steps toward achieving your financial dreams are creating a budget and creating a saving plan. These articles will help you get started.
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Basics
- Automate your financial life
Rather than spending hours porting over bills and financial statements, put your financial life on automatic and reap the rewards. - Creative ways to manage multiple financial goals
Doing a balancing act to juggle different financial goals? See what these folks did.
Saving
- Smart spending, smart saving
Want a bigger savings account? First take a look at where you spend your money; those choices hold a wealth of information about your priorities. - Make saving a lifelong habit
Slow and steady can help your retirement savings snowball. Are you taking the right approach? - How to save $1,000 a year
This is not as difficult as you may think. Following these 10 simple steps will have you increasing your savings in no time.
Budgeting & Managing Debt
- Tackle your student loans
How to keep "good" debt from becoming too much of a burden. - The pros and cons of consolidating debt
Making only one monthly payment may be convenient, but make sure consolidating also eases your overall debt.
Budgeting Calculators
Use our calculators to determine how much money you'll save by creating a sound budget, postponing purchases, or paying off your credit card balances early.
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