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Find out How Brian & His Wife Paid off $109,000 in Credit Card Debt

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It was all consumer debt spread over 5 credit cards. After trying to extend credit to finance the vacation and we were denied (best thing to ever happen to us) we realized we made too much money to be living like this and something had to change. We cut up our credit cards and never used them again. Debt Free Stories'

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How to Build your Emergency Fund

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Do you have enough cash to cover them or would you have to rely on high interest credit cards or a loan from family? With little money in their bank accounts, these Americans couldn’t afford these unfortunate expenses without using a credit card or maybe relying on a loan from family and friends. A Very Tough Year.

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P.E.P. for the Week of February 14-18/11-Planning Edition

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Beating Broke tells us how we can improve our credit score by adding positive information. When you spend little of the credit you have, creditors look favourable on your because it tells them you are responsible. Sustainable Life Blog shares with us tips on how to repair our credit. Some of these sites I hadn’t heard of.

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The 10 Best Money Saving Apps

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Download: iTunes | Google Play | Amazon. #3 Download: iTunes | Google Play | Amazon. #4 Enter you flight information on Kayak and they will scour all the airline and travel sites to find you the very best deal. The best part about Kayak is that it takes you directly to the airline or third-party booking site that has the deal.

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Over 40 and Worried about Money? Start here!

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A few of my favorite personal finance books: The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness , by Dave Ramsey. If not for that fund, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive. Our personal finances are so interwoven with our small business finances that they must be seen as one.

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Create an Emergency Fund | 31 Days to Organize Your Finances

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Both instances could have brought us down and we could have reached for a credit card, but thankfully, my husband and I are pretty adamant about having an emergency fund and I want you to become adamant about having one too. Had it not been for the money in our emergency savings, we would most likely have used credit cards to survive.

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

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Since there seems to be so much in the news lately about credit cards- the good ones, the bad ones, the ugly ones, the fee free ones, the reward ones, the secured ones, etc. I figured I would talk about credit cards as today’s theme. Funancials : Should I Cancel My Credit Card? Take a moment to watch them.