Financial Education Blog

In this section, we store all of the great information that you need to keep your finances in check. It is populated by facts, suggestions, and advice to keep your finances on target!

How To Crush Your Credit

An interesting look at how much various credit moves can damage your credit score - you may not be aware of how much impact some of these items can have. Read on to learn more.

Posted on Jun 14, 2010 - 01:14 PM by DBretz

It Begins with a Poker Face: A Beginner’s Guide to Buying a Car

If you have ever shopped for a car before, new or used, you know it can be an exhausting process. No one loves to haggle over prices. However, it is vital, when car shopping, that you get the best car at the best deal. Read on to discover four lessons to take with you on your next car-buying trip.

Posted on Jun 09, 2010 - 12:47 PM by Selena

Starting a Savings Plan

Now that you have made the important decision to start a savings plan where do you begin? Here are a few tips to get you started!

Posted on Jun 07, 2010 - 02:25 PM by Nicole Plescher

College Debt Reality

This May, the nation’s 3.2 million college grads will get caps, gowns and degrees, and now most will also get a lifetime of debt, too, just as they start their careers. Most face hefty student loans and escalating credit card bills, creating the perfect storm of debt and a failing grade when it comes to money management. Trying to figure out how to pay off all the debt can be like cramming for another statistics exam. It’s overwhelming.

Posted on Jun 07, 2010 - 02:09 PM by Nicole Plescher

Why Buy New When You Can Buy Used

There are a lot of ways to save a few bucks without making huge sacrifices. Here are some suggestions on ways to save money by purchasing certain items used instead of new

Posted on Jun 04, 2010 - 02:50 PM by DBretz

BJ’s, You Complete Me: Why I Love Living a Wholesale Way of Life

Have you ever been placed in a predicament where you’re over a friend’s house and you have a need for a common household item, but they don’t have it? For instance, you want to wipe your mouth after dinner, but there are no paper towels. Or maybe you need to wash your hands, but there’s no hand soap. And haven’t we all been in that super awkward position where you’ve finished using the toilet only to be mortified by the fact that there’s no toilet tissue on the roll or anywhere in the bathroom for that matter?!? Well, have no fear if you ever come to my place because I can assure you that I never run out of anything, and I mean anything!

Posted on Jun 04, 2010 - 03:10 PM by ablount

Financial Infidelity: Cheating with your money

If you tend to spend large amounts of money without telling your spouse, you may be guilty of financial infidelity. It’s an emerging trend and involves having secret bank accounts or credit cards and hiding financial information to mislead your spouse. Discover how this may already affect your family.

Posted on Jun 01, 2010 - 01:54 PM by Robyn

Current on Payments and Joining A Debt Managment Program?: 3 Simple Steps To Making it Work - Part 3

Alright, you’ve done the work and changed your creditor due dates as well as supplemented payments to creditors until all proposals were accepted. So, now’s the time to kick your feet up and let the debt management program do it’s magic and you can check back in when everything’s paid off, right? Wrong! The last step in this 3 part series is the key to maintaining all your hard work and ensuring success with paying off your creditors.

Posted on May 30, 2010 - 12:08 PM by ablount

Driving somewhere for Memorial Weekend?

Have you noticed gas prices inching downward? Here is a bit of explanation about why you are seeing lower prices at the pump and what it may mean for your holiday plans.

Posted on May 28, 2010 - 07:54 PM by ChrisN

Current on Payments and Joining A Debt Managment Program?: 3 Simple Steps To Making it Work - Part 2

Okay, so you’ve done the work to make sure that you have changed your creditor due dates so that your debt management program (DMP) payments arrive in time. Your first DMP payment is coming up; however, when you look at the statement, you see that there’s a minimum payment due of $100 but the DMP payment that will be sent is only for $70. What do you do?

Posted on May 28, 2010 - 12:04 PM by ablount

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