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10 Frugal Summer Vacation Ideas for People Who Don’t Fly
The summer travel season can be a letdown if you don’t like to fly. While your friends are packing their bags and jetting off to amazing locations abroad or across the country, you’re stuck at home...
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10 Books About Money to Get the New College Grad
Spring brings plenty of reasons to celebrate – after all, it’s all about new beginnings, and the warmer weather brings weddings and parties galore. And with school coming to an end, it’s a time when...
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Four Best Credit Cards to Take to the Grocery Store
You may not care much about credit card rewards or think you spend enough to justify using them, but the truth is most people could benefit from a really solid rewards card. Even if you just spend...
View ArticleIs Building a New Home a Better Deal Than Buying an Existing One?
Just the other day, a friend of mine argued that building a new home is more cost efficient than buying an existing property. Her new home is almost finished, and will be move-in ready in about three...
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Yardwork Gone Wild: How to Tame Your Landscape for Less
Most of us have at least one neighbor who takes yard care to the extreme. They’ve got the perfect lawn, pristine hedges, healthy plants, and an outdoor living space that puts every other house on your...
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How Young Is Too Young to Get a Credit Card?
It’s the quintessential catch-22: You can’t build credit until you have credit of your own. Then again, banks are hesitant to give you a credit card when you lack any type of credit history at all....
View ArticleSix Things Every College Graduate Needs to Know About Money
Beyond the relative safety of college sits the stressful and sometimes messy world of adulthood. Where responsibilities were once limited to attending class, studying, showing up to a part-time job,...
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Eight Seasonal Side Hustles to Make Bank This Summer
While the cost of living keeps going up, most wages have remained fairly stagnant, confirms a 2015 report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The report, which analyzed American’s wage pattern from...
View ArticleWhat to Do When Your Spouse Fails Miserably at a New Job
When my husband grew tired of his mortuary job in 2013, I wasn’t all that surprised. After all, working as a mortician means working in one of the most stressful and consuming jobs on the planet. With...
View ArticleThe Life-Changing Magic of Buying Used Stuff
A few weeks ago, a family friend’s dog ate my four-year-old’s shoes. Then, a week later, the same dog ate my six-year-old’s shoes. Within a span of eight days, two pairs of shoes were shredded beyond...
View ArticleTwo-Sided Coin: Save for the Future or Live for Today?
This is the fourth in a series of posts called the “Two-Sided Coin,” where TSD’s Jon Gorey and Holly Johnson take opposing viewpoints on personal finance topics. Holly: Save Now or Forever Hold Your...
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Seven ‘Cheats’ to Trick Yourself Into Exercising
In a perfect world, we would all eat nine servings of fruits, veggies, and grains every single day. We would grow our own (organic) produce, roll noodles from scratch, drink only purified water from a...
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10 Money Rules Not Everyone Follows (But Should)
America’s love affair with debt and consumption has left far too many of us financially hamstrung and struggling to get ahead. After all, the average U.S. household carried $15,672 in credit card debt...
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25 Ways to Save on Summer Travel
Summer might be the perfect time for a vacation, but peak-season travel doesn’t come cheap. The warm weather, coupled with the fact that kids are out of school, can bring filled-up flights, less...
View ArticleEight Jobs Where You Determine Your Salary
Working for someone else can be a drag. Not only do you have to please your boss and toe the company line, but you have to deal with the innate limitations of an hourly or salaried profession: You can...
View Article11 Cheesy Money Sayings That Are Absolutely True
Most people have at least one family member who seems to know it all. They’ve got a snazzy saying for everything, an endless stream of cheesy advice, and a few catchphrases they roll out when the time...
View ArticleWhen Does it Make Sense to Refinance Your Student Loans?
With interest rates hovering near all-time lows, we see commercials and ads for home refinancing all the time. By choosing a new loan with a lower interest rate and better terms, the experts say, you...
View ArticleOur First Summer Jobs – and What We Learned From Them
Did you have a summer job as a teenager? If you were in high school between 1974 and 1994, chances are you did, according to a 2015 study by Pew Research. More than half of 16- to 19-year-olds held a...
View ArticleSix Numbers You Need to Know to Actually Get Out of Debt
Just like there are many ways to get into debt, there’s more than one way to dig yourself out. Where some people focus on the debt snowball or debt avalanche methods, others might transfer...
View ArticleEight Free Things to Do with Dad This Father’s Day
With Father’s Day coming up on June 19, it’s time to start thinking of ways to recognize the special man in your life. From home beer brewing kits to “World’s Best Dad” t-shirts and personalized photo...
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