Tag Archives: savings accounts

A Checking Account With No Overdraft Fees?

July 10, 2009 – 4:42 pm

Overdraft fees netted nearly $37 billion for banks in 2008, and with so many major financial institutions like Bank of America hurting for cash this year, consumers can expect an assortment of banking charges to climb even higher in 2009. It’s a double whammy for money-strapped Americans because the people most likely to get slapped with [...]

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My Checking Account Costs $119.40?

April 22, 2009 – 4:24 pm

You know those “Important Notices” you get in the mail from your bank and credit card companies? The ones filled with 25 pages of indecipherable fine print? Well, it turns out that sometimes there’s actually important information mixed in with all the legalese. At least if you want to avoid paying $119.40 in annual fees. [...]

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A simple way to maintain your family budget

January 27, 2009 – 5:08 pm

There’s a great post over at My Money Blog which offers a very simple way to maintain a family budget, without the hassle that comes with some of the more complicated budgeting methods. The basic idea is that we only put the amount of money we actually want to spend into our primary checking     [...]

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