1. Create a new budget. A new year calls for a new budget. Rolling over an existing budget might be easy, but making changes now is easier than dealing with debt in the future. Have you moved, switched insurance, or added a new family member (child or pet) in the last year? Take into account what changed [...]
With only a few days left until Christmas, retailers are rolling out deep discounts to attract last-minute shoppers ready to click “BUY.” The so-called “flash sale” discount sites are particularly enticing. A designer bag or new tech tablet is offered in limited quantities, and a timer runs nearby telling you how much time is left. Thinking [...]
It’s Friday, so here’s a little financial humor to close out the week. In this hilarious ad for Norwegian bank DnB NOR, a woman awakes in a five-star hotel room to discover that she has drunkenly married George Clooney, who adoringly shows her online photos of a vacation home he has picked out as a [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. There are a million articles on how to save more money, but how many of them contain advice you can actually use? We distilled the best advice we’ve ever gotten into five [...]
Spinning off Tuesday’s post, the question remains: If you do manage to cut your spending on discretionary purchases, how much money does that help you save every year? Bills.com has a nifty Ways to Save Money feature that shows you how much your savings can add up if you sock away the money in an [...]
Being a personal-finance aficionado, I always click on those articles that promise to help cut the fat from your budget. Most recently, I was intrigued by the idea of RealSimple.com’s “24 Hours of Savings” article for finding ways to trim your spending throughout the day. However, it’s disappointing that the bulk of the advice seems [...]
You’ve seen those commercials on TV that proclaim, “For just 50 cents per day, you can change someone’s life.” And while some of those charities are no doubt worthy, what if the life you could change were your own? This is not a gimmick. To see how spare change can add up, I was just [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. There’s a difference between dating cheap and being cheap — we’re not endorsing the latter, but there are many ways to show your crush a creatively good time without emptying your wallet. [...]
If you’ve followed the conventional wisdom of making a budget to live within your means, you may think you can just kick back and reap the benefits, right? Not exactly. There are a number of life changes that will require you to tweak or even completely redo your budget. Here are a few of the [...]
Welcome to this week’s edition of our Tuesday Top 5, Econ4U’s weekly tips post to help you manage your money in five easy steps. After paying for housing and utilities, the grocery bill is often the largest single line item in a household budget. So if you haven’t already tried these tips to shave dollars off [...]
