Build Your Budget
Think of your budget as a planning device, a means of setting and reaching your personal finance goals. You project...
Take a Financial Inventory
If you’re on top of your regular income and outgo, then maybe you can safely skip this section to personal...
Family Budgeting: Thrive on One Paycheck
For Raffi and Elaine Boloyan, both 32, stretching their income became doubly-challenging when they chose to cut their income by...
Budgeting: Stretch a Small Income
It’s tough enough to make ends meet in a pricey city like San Francisco. It’s even tougher when you’re a...
Investments: Set Goals and Adopt a Strategy
Investment goals tend to be long-term: enough to pay college tuition starting in ten years, for instance, or enough to...
Save or Pay Down Debt
Should you be putting money in savings or investments at the same time you’re paying off a loan? That’s one...
Save Money on Phone, Internet and TV
Bundle your services and you'll save some green. For about $100 a month, you can get cable or satellite TV,...
Save Money on Utilities
Here are 15 quick, cheap and easy ways to cut your electricity, heat and water use, while also cutting your...
Save Money on Transportation
The average cost of owning and driving a car 15,000 miles a year is $8,121 according to the American Automobile...
Save Money on Practically Everything
Want to save a buck? How about a few hundred or a couple thousand?
Budgeting: Save Money on Food
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the average American family of four spends $8,513 per year on groceries—that’s $709...
Save Money on Entertainment
If your recent “nights out” consist of a walk to your mailbox to pick up your latest Netflix movie or...
Save Money on Credit, Debt and Banking
Make sure you aren’t paying more than you should—and that you’re getting all the benefits you deserve—with these 11 tips:...
Marriage and Money
Once upon a time, you found that special someone to spend the rest of your life with, and now the...
Make Investing a Habit
To reach your savings goals, you have to incorporate investing into your budget and financial plan. Here are some easy...
How to Handle Debt
How much debt is too much? It depends. That's not the answer you wanted, perhaps, but it's the only sensible...
Investing: Control Your Risks
The risks you are prepared to take will influence the kinds of investments you make and the return you should...
Bankruptcy, the Last Resort
When you can’t possibly pay what you owe and informal arrangements with creditors have failed, it might be time to...