Source: goodfinancialcents.com via Jeff on Pinterest Look, I'm not a big joiner, but when I saw Jeff over at Good Financial Cents tweet about starting a movement that increases the awareness and usage of Roth IRA's, I couldn't say no. It's just too important to start saving in a Roth IRA at the earliest …
Welcome to the Q2 2012 edition of Maximizing What’s in Your Wallet! As a reminder, this post is for all the credit card deadbeats out there looking to maximize cash back rewards. So, if you never carry a balance on your credit cards, have them set to auto-pay in full every month, and want to make …
Well, I finished my taxes. Yahoo! That's about a month later than usual, but the trickling in of tax documents seems to be taking longer every year. I still can't seem to get my withholding right to keep me from getting a large refund. I've used the calculator at the IRS, but like most things IRS-related, it's …
A note from Slug: This is another guest post from Noreen. This week she's written a nice review of Lending Club. I personally have no experience with Lending Club, but I spent several years bidding on loans at their rival Prosper. Anecdotally, I have heard that Lending Club lenders tend to be more satisfied than …
February has been an extremely busy and exciting month. The BIG thing that happened from a personal finance perspective is that we refinanced our mortgage again down to a new fixed rate of 4%. You can read all the gory details here. As I discussed in that post, this has opened up a question …
I last refinanced my mortgage in July 2010. Back then I was trying to reduce my rate from 5% AND get out of escrow. I was extremely successful and garnered a nice 4.375% 30 year fixed mortgage. I thought I was done, but rates continued to fall. I started playing with a mortgage calculator and …
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The New York Times Buck's Blog is reporting that some big banks are starting to offer payday-like loans. After reading the article, I was scrolling the comments and saw that Cindy from Baltimore wrote: There is no support for this. Our society has declared war on the poor at every front and it diminishes …
A note from Slug: This is another guest post from Noreen who last week wowed Sunk Costs Are Irrelevant readers with her discussion of the impact of federal regulation D on online bank transfers. This week she's written a nice review of Upromise. It's hard to contextualize exactly what Upromise is. Upromise is a rewards …
