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3 Ways to Fortify Your Adult Friendships

As adults, meeting new people and making new friends can be difficult. But what about strengthening the friendships you already have? Between work and family obligations, seeing your friends on a regular basis can be difficult, and snagging more than a...

Redoing Your Kitchen? Keep the Floor Low Maintenance

A kitchen renovation can be a homeowner's dream, where function meets personal style in one seamless space. But when considering your kitchen redo, pay special attention to the floor. By choosing a low maintenance material, you can save yourself hours ...

Eco-Friendly Tips With Low Costs and High Savings

Most homeowners have weather-stripped their doors to maximize climate control, and have switched out traditional incandescent light bulbs with eco-friendly CFL models. Short of installing double paned windows or making other costly home improvements, w...

Best Apps to Take Care of Your Dog and Save Money

Leaving your pet in someone else's hands can be risky. Who loves your pet more than you do? For the right amount of money, a few pet tech apps are trying to remove that anxiety by connecting users with people who will care for your pet just as well as ...

Understanding Car Title Loans, and Why You Should Avoid Them

If you've seen advertisements by lenders saying "No credit, no problem," then you may have heard of car title loans. And chances are, you could end up with a problem.Like their maligned brethren payday loans, car title loans prey on the poor and underb...

How Wage Garnishment Works

Wage garnishment is one of the last steps in collecting debts for child support, alimony, student loans and income taxes-all of which the government can pull money from someone's paycheck without obtaining a court order.Wage garnishment for unpaid fina...

Apps to Make Saving Easier

Saving for a home, retirement, a vacation or anything else can be difficult.The median retirement savings of all working-age families in the United States is $5,000, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Given that many financial advisers recomme...

5 Tips for Making Health Savings Accounts Work for You

Putting money in a Health Savings Account, or HSA, can help you and your family pay for health expenses now and in the future, while giving you a tax break for your contributions.HSAs have been around since 2003 to help people with high-deductible heal...

Eyeing a New Appliance? Look Over These Tips First!

Are you getting ready to buy a major appliance, like a refrigerator, oven, dishwasher or dryer?The Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM.org) recommends the following tips:Get the specs. Ask your dealer for specifications from several manuf...

4 Surprising Credit Card Rewards Facts

Credit card rewards can be a free way to travel and get cash back for your daily expenses.But if you're not paying your credit card bill in full when it arrives, then you're paying interest and those free rewards are no longer free. That's not a surpri...