If I told you that you could spend up to a third less on your medical expenses, would you be interested? Well you can. It’s called the Flexible Spending Account (FSA), and it’s usually available through employers. This is … Read More … Read More
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Track or you will fail
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How the handle the stress of budgeting
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Why overdraft charges are okay (but unecessary)
Overdraft charges are the great irony of banking. You get charged a fee when you try to make a purchase and you don’t have sufficient money in your account. It would almost be a joke if it weren’t so … Read More … Read More
Tags: banks, emergency fund, expenses, finances, float, overdraft, sinking funds
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How would you handle a loss of income?
The local free paper in town recently did a story on the local homeless population, interviewing a few of them and getting their own individual stories rather than treating them as one faceless mass. Today, I was reading the … Read More … Read More
Tags: emergency fund, expenses, homelessness, income, job
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But keeping track of expenses is hard!
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The secret life of your money
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