When you head into your 30s, your life is filled with more responsibilities. No matter if you’re single, married, or have started a family, making key financial moves can help you take advantage of financial opportunities and weather setbacks when they occur, because they will. Here are 10 steps that can help you build security and reach your financial goals.
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6 Tips to Avoid Holiday Debt
The holiday season brings with it giving, travel, family gatherings – and if you’re not careful – unwanted debt. Here are six tips to make the season stay bright in your memory, free of regrets.
Protecting Yourself with a Financial Back-up Plan
By Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®
As someone who has had her fair share of economic setbacks — including being in debt, going through a costly divorce and being downsized — I know from firsthand experience the importance of having a financial back-up plan.
Create a Financial Strategy for Budgeting and Saving
By Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, The Money Coach®
If budgeting and saving money seem like difficult tasks to conquer, perhaps the issue is that you’ve not yet created a financial strategy for achieving these goals. Here are some ideas to improve your savings, and make you a better budgeter, by creating a financial strategy that works for your lifestyle.
Best Ways to Save on a Summer Vacation
When you’re trying to stick with a budget it’s never too early to start planning for your summer vacation. And because it’s a supply-and-demand world, the longer you wait to plan the more likely you’ll be up against higher airfare, hotel costs and car rental rates. But here are some tips to help keep things affordable.
SavvyMoney Minute: Fool Yourself into Saving More
If you can’t see it, and you can’t touch it, you won’t spend it. Why is saving money so tough? Because it means putting aside resources for tomorrow that you’re tempted to use today. And your brain, wired to hunt and gather right now, doesn’t like that. The solution? Mind games.
It’s a Money Thing: Budgeting Basics
Budgets: we all know we should have one, and we all know it’s a fairly simple thing to follow—at least in theory. We often map out budgets with the best of intentions, only to abandon them a couple of weeks later. If we design budgets that are too restrictive or too vague, there’s no motivation to follow them.
SavvyMoney Minute: Five Tips to Better Finances
Think it’s too late to resolve to improve your finances? It’s not! Here are five tips.