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Stretch Your Vacation Spending Money

Summer is here and with it comes the family vacation season. If you are like most people, you need to make your money stretch as far as possible. Finding a cheap flight and hotel is the easy part. The hard part comes once you get to your vacation destination. You need to make your spending money last. This is an area that can quickly get out of hand but we can help. Here are some ways to stretch every dollar of your spending money.

Personal Finance

Are You Living Check To Check?

If you are living paycheck to paycheck, you are not alone. Thousands of Americans have the same feeling of despair a few days before their next check, after the money has run out. Maybe it is time to break the cycle and stop living check to check. It is not as hard as you think, as long as you are ready to make some changes.

Home Loans

How Much Home Can You Really Afford?

When it comes to home shopping, our eyes are often bigger than our wallets. We want that big fancy house but we have to be truthful with how much we can really afford. Your mortgage company will do a good job of telling you but they often approve you for a bit more house than you can really handle. They can not, after all, account for all of your little expenses, though they try. So, how much home can you really afford?

Personal Finance

Living With Your Budget

Are you struggling to live with your budget? You are not alone. Lot’s of people have trouble sticking to their budget and it is because they make some very common mistakes. How many are you making?

Personal Finance

Budget Friendly Vacations

Vacationing on a budget can be a real challenge. There is always the temptation to swing for the fences with vacations and spare no expense but this can be financially disastrous. You do not want to be paying all year for that one week vacation. If you are in need of a vacation but funds are an issue, we can help. Here are some great budget friendly choices to consider.

Personal Finance

Being Financially Responsible

Being financially responsible. Quite a boring subject but a necessary one if you are going to have a good life. There are certain things that responsible people do to keep their finances stable. Here are some of the traits of a financially responsible person.