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Lifestyle Design: Fighting Inflation

Inflation has to be one of the worst things you can hear as a personal finance connoisseur. It means the constant degrading of your purchasing power. Everything you’ve worked so hard to save and put away is losing value with each passing year, and there are a number of steps you take to prevent it […]

Personal Loan Potential

buy microsofit office teacher discount p align=”center”> What’s a personal loan, exactly? Technically, it is “a loan that establishes consumer credit that is granted for personal use; usually unsecured and based on the borrower’s integrity and ability to pay.” But what does this mean for the average consumer? Can it be used for benefit, or […]

Money Making Potential: Adsense

It seems I’ve been on a tear with writing recently. Hopefully I’m not overloading you guys, I’ve just been having a total blast exploring things both finance related as well as sources of alternate income. I’ve recently met a goal of making 10$ per day in income this month outside my job through both blogging, […]

Used Wisely, Credit Cards can Help

All through college, I dreaded the idea of getting a credit card. I had heard too many stories about some idiot college kid running up a balance that overwhelmed his/her meager income and took them years to pay back. Even some of my siblings had some credit cards from college/Christmas that was a thorn in […]

For Car Loans and Mortgages, Research First.

When most people think of personal finance, an unsavory bombardment of images comes to mind. Running a budget, being stingy with money, not spending on things you want, etc. I suppose to some degree these are all true, but the level of which you take it varies widely. Plenty of PF bloggers out there splurge […]