Archive for 'Saving Money & Finances'
What Is The Secret To Saving Money
Posted on by Forest.
What Is The Secret To Saving Money - Here I am about a year after I seriously set my mind to sorting out my financial mess and looking at a reasonable sum sitting in my savings account. “I did good”, “I’m doing good”, I am thinking to myself, maybe I have cracked the secret of saving [...]
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Today’s 15 Year Mortgage Rates
Posted on by Forest.
Today’s 15 Year Mortgage Rates – On 12th April (2012) it was announced that 15-year Mortgage rates had dipped to their lowest rate on record at 3.11 percent on average. Obviously that was great news for people and luckily the rates have stayed extremely low since. Today’s 15 Year Mortgage Rates Generally I discourage people [...]
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President Obama’s Tax Rate
Posted on by Emily.
President Obama’s Tax Rate and Obama’s Tax Return – The White House released President Obama’s tax return this week, which revealed the president and his family paid about $160,000 in federal taxes. Their combined income from the President’s salary ($400,000) and book sales reached a total income of $789,645 in 2011. A considerable decrease from 2010 [...]
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1792 Penny Sells For 1.15 Million
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1792 Penny Sells For 1.15 Million – I’m always a little dumbfounded by the worth of collectables! The face value of this 1792 penny has certainly been ignored as it recently auctioned for an astonishing 1.15 million! 1792 Penny Sells For 1.15 Million A penny, a piece of metal, has sold for an astonishing amount [...]
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Open House, Home Selling
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Open House, Home Selling – It is easy to get complacent when selling your home and not properly prepare for the actual viewing. Leaving some dirty washing on the bedroom floor or not properly cleaning out the oven are small things that could turn a potential buyer away! Setting your house up as clean but lived in [...]
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Make Your Own Natural Insecticides
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Make Your Own Natural Insecticides - Insecticides are not always that friendly to your garden and possibly you so having control over them and putting them together yourself from natural ingredients is a great way to minimalise any harm they could create. Make Your Own Natural Insecticides So what goes into an insecticide? You don’t have to [...]
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When To Sell a Stock?
Posted on by Forest.
Opinions on stocks and investments and when to buy and sell vary from person to person. Many say one thing, some another. Often people have charts and rules that apply to when a stock drops below a certain value and when they should sell. Others go on pure gut instinct and some have varying rules [...]
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Medical Bills and Bankruptcy
Posted on by Forest.
Bankruptcy sucks but sometimes when the debts are mounting up it is the only sane option to allow a human to clear up things and get on with life. Sadly much of the time, in the USA, the reason for bankruptcy isn’t bad money management or stupid life decisions, it is illness. Medical Bills and [...]
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How Can I Budget to Save
Posted on by Forest.
Budgeting with the goal to save in mind isn’t always easy and may require some serious hacking away at your current lifestyle. The thing is you need savings to get comfortable and be able to move forward in life without unneeded stress and problems. If you car breaks down it shouldn’t be a huge stress [...]
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How to Travel Cheaply
Posted on by Forest.
I love to travel and I do a fair amount of it! I’m not exactly mega rich though so travelling cheaply is important to keep me able to keep doing it. So how do you do it? Travelling throws you into new situations, often very unfamilialar and the want for some comfort ofte drags you [...]

