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Is Credit Karma Accurate? I Tested It & Here’s What I Learned

Penny Pinchin' Mom

While I may talk a lot about savings and being prudent with your money, a huge part of decluttering your finances is knowing exactly where you stand with the major credit bureaus. There are just some investment projects that you simply can’t finance with your savings or credit cards. It all ties in together. You will need a loan.

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How to Get Your Free Credit Reports From the Major Credit Bureaus

Savings Corner

Those reports — which previously had been limited to once a year — are permanently available weekly to help consumers manage their finances. Enter your personal information You’ll need your name, Social Security number, address and birthdate. Incorrect, negative information. Some other sites have similar-sounding names.

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How to Protect Your Online Banking

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I don’t want my banking information out there for everyone to see” She went on to tell me about a friend’s horror story; the friend had experienced online banking fraud, whereby somebody hacked her online bank account and transferred money to their own. Don’t Access Banking Information From Your Phone.

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Limiting the Financial Damage of a Data Breach

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Millions of customers had their data stolen, including credit and debit information. Even though I haven’t shopped at a Target in years, my partial data was stolen, and I’ll need to be vigilant when it comes to my identity. My credit card information was vulnerable during the PlayStation Network breach of a few years ago.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #236 – May 11, 2012

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Failure to monitor your consumption expenditures means that they are flying blindly regarding their future finances. posted at Your Finances Simplified , saying, “One of the things that investment gurus always emphasize is to diversify, diversify and diversify. YFS presents What Is Asset Allocation and Why Is It Important?

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Wayne presents Purpose of Budgeting posted at Young Family Finance , saying, “Are you left wondering why you should budget? History repeats and informs in market technologies. It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information.

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GIVEAWAY: TurboTax Deluxe 2012 from OfficeDepot

Saving With Shellie

There are a few years when we do some funky things with the finances and think it’s best to go the CPA route. Once you are finished with your taxes, don’t forget to store all your information safely and securely. Tax time is one of the leading times for identity theft. Are you finished? Have you even started?