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4 Financial Lessons Your Parents Forgot to Teach You

Saving Cents With Sense

This is especially important if you get a 401K match from your employer, as that’s free money. Cars represent a significant chunk of your budget, with car payments, repairs, maintenance, insurance, and gas. ©2009-13 Saving Cents with Sense ™, a website of Saving Sense Media LLC. Car Buying. All rights reserved.

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Saving Tips & Free Crediting Monitoring

For the Mommas

Nearly 46% of consumers say they typically consider making a financial resolution – up 31% since the first year of the survey in 2009. Create a budget. Have more money automatically withdrawn from your paycheck and put in your 401k. The top 3 financial resolutions? Bring your lunch to work more frequently. Paying Off Debt.

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Should You Invest In A Rising Market?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Ever since we stumbled past the Fiscal Cliff and the budget crisis, the stock market has been rising like a hot air balloon in an updraft (at least as of the time this post was written at the end of March 2013). My Predicament. I retired in 2010 (yeah!). I moved my retirement savings from two company plans into an IRA.

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