Family Vacations For Broke

With financial markets falling and foreclosures at an all time high, people are looking closer to home for vacation options in order to save a little money and keep the house in their name instead of the banks.

Home vacations do not have to mean going to the bowling alley for a quick game. Camping out [...]

Is Your Financial Plan for Retirement Realistic?

If you take a look at how seniors today struggle with healthcare costs, housing expenses and every other kind of expense, you start to wonder what will happen when it’s your turn. There is a lot of information on developing a financial plan for retirement at http://www.finance.yahoo.com. One thing I read there was pretty [...]

Understanding Necessities to Save Money

There is a clear difference between the things we need in life and the things we want. Unfortunately many people have a tainted view of what those necessities really are. The necessities of life are the things you NEED in order to live. Those extra cable channels, the highest speed Internet connection and the premium [...]

How do You Finance Emergency Expenses?

Are you loaded with credit card debt you’re now struggling to pay down? Do you know how it happened? The obvious answer is, over-spending. But too often, people that aren’t over-spending have large consumer debts because they finance emergency expenses with credit cards. Medical expenses and car repairs are two examples. The only way to [...]