Category Archives: Saving and Investing
Saving For Success in 2017
Set smart, attainable goals to reach your savings goals. Find out how to start a savings habit in less than a month. Continue reading
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Saving Smart with a 401(k)
If you work for a company that offers it, a 401(k) savings plan is a great way to boost your retirement savings. What is a 401(k)? According to the Wall Street Journal’s How to Guide to Retirement A 401(k) is … Continue reading
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Saving and Investing – Tools and Tips to Make it Easier
Having a strong savings plan and the right investment program can mean the difference between handing out shopping carts at Wal-mart when you’re 70 or enjoying the sunset over the ocean from your Florida retirement cottage. Here are great resources … Continue reading
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Just Starting Out? How to Be a Millionaire When You Retire
The Wall Street Journal ran an article last spring about the benefit of starting to save earlier, rather than later. The article was aptly titled, College Graduates, You Need to Start Saving Now and is worth a quick read. http://on.wsj.com/HVGCxt. … Continue reading
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6 Ways to Find Money for Your Savings Account
Finding Money to Save With the economy in a recession everyone is looking to save a few dollars to watch their personal savings grow rather than cease to exist. There are some really great tips out there on how to … Continue reading
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Would You Like to Make an Extra $1000? Audit Your Insurance
Would you like an extra $700-$1000 a year? Yeah, that’s what I thought. An extra thousand bucks might be a vacation, that new HDTV or computer or a nice addition to your savings account. How do you claim your $1000? … Continue reading
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Tagged insurance, personal financial audit, refinance, savings
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Bargain Blessings for Coupon Shoppers
Learn to use coupons at the grocery store and elsewhere to save money and maybe do some good while you’re at it! Continue reading
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You Could Buy a Really Big Turkey with an Extra $10,000
Brett Arends of the Wall Street Journal showed us how we could celebrate next Turkey Day in high style with an extra $10K in our pockets. Now that’s what I call delicious stuffing! Mr. Arends polled family, friends, financial advisors … Continue reading
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Own Your Home Outright? Not Always the Best Option
Should you pay off or pay down your home mortgage. The answer? It depends… Continue reading
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Retirement Planning
Most Americans hope to cap a life of working hard with a secure retirement that allows them to enjoy the benefits of that hard work. It only makes sense that the earlier you begin to plan and prepare for retirement, … Continue reading
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