Finance

• Help! I Can’t Afford Christmas

  The less money you have to spend on Christmas the earlier you have to get started. Bargains go quickly as we all know. In this article, I give some great ideas on saving money on presents, and offer suggestions on presents that you can make yourself.

• Resolve to Improve Your Finances

  Kick off the new year with these 7 money resolutions and get a fresh financial start to the new year. At year’s end, you’ll be surprised at how much you’ve reduced your debt load and the money you’ve saved!

• Alternatives To Going Broke In The College Savings Game

  Not every family needs to go for broke, literally, when it comes to saving for college. The fact that 80% of our nation’s kids attend public colleges tells us that we’re not the first ones to have this bright idea.

• Single Stay-at-Home Mom

  Over 1 million couples get divorced each year and roughly one third of all families are headed by a single parent. According to Raise the Nation, an advocacy group, there are over 13 million single parent households raising 20 million children. They also estimate that only 1/4 receive full child-support.

• Understanding The Type Of Insurance Available To You

  Understanding the kind of insurance that’s available to you can be confusing. This excerpt, from Todd D. Tucker’s eBook, briefly explains the most common types of insurance.

• Student Expenses

  Most students entering college have limited financial education. And, moving out of the house for the first time can create problems. The actual costs of college, like tuition and fees, are generally known. Usually it’s the ‘living expenses’ and other incidental costs that throw budgets out of whack.

• Lost Opportunities

  Sometimes it’s helpful to take a concept out of it’s original environment and see how it fits someplace else. Today we’re going to examine an economic theory and see how it might apply to our personal lives.

• The Family Budget — A Never–ending Tussle

  There seems to be no shortage of advice on how to create and live within a family budget. Simply entering those two key words into either of the major Internet search engines, Yahoo or Google, reveals hundreds of thousands of websites that offer to guide the American family through the financial thicket and into the golden realm of solvency.