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How-Tuesday: How to Prevent Impulse Buying

You've created an incredibly thorough budget. You're making all the smart moves, like couponing, eating at home, and even making your own cleaning products to save money. Yet, there's one pesky habit that, within mere minutes, derails all of your hard work week after week: impulse buying.

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Personal Finance

Fun Money Facts: Halloween by the Numbers

Happy Halloween! The history of this day is enough to give you goosebumps, and the activities you partake in will surely give you a thrill and a scream or two, but these spine-tingling statistics only add to the scariness that is Halloween...

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Personal Finance
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Watch-it-Wednesday: On Building a Budget

Budgeting is one of the most crucial elements of personal finance, yet only 1 in 3 Americans actually budget their money. Scary, huh? If you're having trouble taking the plunge and creating a basic monthly household budget, there are plenty of resources available to you.

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Personal Finance

Card Fraud + 3Rivers’ Protection Solutions

Target, Michael’s, Home Depot, Goodwill, Jimmy Johns, Dairy Queen, Kmart. In less than a year, cardholders all over the USA received the news that these major retailers/restaurants suffered a breach. As a result, millions of cardholders have had to replace their debit and credit cards.

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Fraud Protection & Security

Halloween Week: 10 Tips to Throw a Halloween Party on a Budget

If you put just as much passion, work, time, and money into throwing a hair-raising Halloween bash as you do for other holiday parties (New Years, 4th of July) then we've got some spine-chilling savings tips you'll want to keep in mind.

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Try This: Spending Freeze

If you follow many personal finance or frugal living blogs, you know that the term “spending freeze” has been hot in the blogosphere the last couple of years. But just what is a spending freeze? And why should you try a short-term freeze?

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Personal Finance