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How to Save Money Fast – My Top 20 Tips

Penny Pinchin' Mom

So, whenever I banked my check at the end of the month, $600 automatically disappeared from my savings account. So I would suggest using this method until you have your spending habits under control, and then you can go back to the credit cards. What I do is use my credit cards in conjunction with cash back apps.

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5 Apps to Help Manage Your Money

Saving Cents With Sense

Track all of your checking, savings, credit card and IRA accounts while keeping tabs on our budget. This intuitive app, which links and pulls information directly from your bank accounts, also will categorize all of your expenses and generate budgets based on your spending habits. iAllowance is a piggy bank for the digital age.

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The 5 Most Important Personal Finance Lessons to Teach your Child

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

High interest credit card debt can really drag you down, yet you might want to take out a business loan to start up a really great business idea. You need to be able to balance savings and investment accounts back to what the bank or financial institution thinks you have. How to manage life activities.

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The Tax Man taxeth.

Finally Frugal

Both refunds have now been deposited in my bank account, which resulted in a nice hefty payment to the student loan services. I have no idea what led to the federal refund, although I changed my withholdings several times last year (my human resource office must hate me) so maybe I had more taken out than I thought I did.

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5 Ways to Reduce Your Debt

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you live in Canada, check with the Credit Counseling Canada association. If you are constantly hitting your credit card limit, it just takes one small transaction to push you over the limit – and of course this means hefty bank charges being added to your account. Don’t hit your limit.

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How To Prepare for Affordable Travel

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Call Your Bank. If using an ATM, do you have a debit card that will reimburse any fees incurred? Do you have a credit card that allows you to make foreign transactions without a hefty fee? Do you have a credit card that allows you to make foreign transactions without a hefty fee?

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