An uncomfortable fact of personal finance is that you don't necessarily "pay for what you get". When a bank offers "Free Checking", it means "we won't charge you a monthly fee but we'll get our money from overdraft charges, ATM fees, and more". … [Read the rest]
When I last applied for a credit card, I received multiple e-mails within minutes alerting me that someone had checked my credit report. This was reassuring, and yet I don't pay any money to a credit monitoring service. This is my custom-made … [Read the rest]
Online education site Coursera is offering a Learn a New Skill for Free in 2021 promotion with selected courses free until January 31, 2021. Here are a couple that are related to finance: Financial Planning for Young Adults (50,000+ already … [Read the rest]
Alliant Credit Union, one of the top 10 largest US credit unions by assets, has teamed up with Suze Orman to promote their new Ultimate Opportunity Savings account. The interest rate of 0.55% APY and structure appears to be the same as their … [Read the rest]
I know I'm a bit late on this, but after reading several media articles, here again is my curated collection of highlights and perhaps overlooked items that might be worthy of additional research. Second round of Economic Impact Payments. Many … [Read the rest]
Updated for 2021. Here is the second part of my big list of free consumer reports from over 50 different reporting agencies. The first part included your credit, banking, and subprime lending-related information. This part includes your housing, … [Read the rest]
Here's my monthly roundup of the best interest rates on cash for January 2021, roughly sorted from shortest to longest maturities. I track these rates because I keep 12 months of expenses as a cash cushion and there are many lesser-known … [Read the rest]
Instead of focusing only on what happened in 2020, how about stepping back and taking the longer view? How would a slow-and-steady investor have done over the last decade? Most successful savers invest money each year over a long period of time, … [Read the rest]
Back again for 2021, possibly good through 2023! Emerald Club is the loyalty program for National Car Rental that includes a unique "Emerald Aisle" where you can walk up and pick any car in that aisle based on your tier. The base Emerald tier … [Read the rest]
In terms of your retirement accounts, 2020 was definitely a year where it helped to simply ignore the constant market news and hold onto the assets that you believe have long-term promise. It was also a good year to own the entire haystack. Here … [Read the rest]
Wishing you a safe and joyous holiday season. I hope that your resilience, hard work, and optimism pays off even more in the new year. We made some ornaments and characters out of salt dough today... I call this piece "Tired Snowdaddy and his … [Read the rest]
Here's another caffeine promo from Dunkin Donuts: Buy $30 worth of Dunkin gift cards, get $10 in promo gift cards. There is a banner at the top and you must use buy via this specific page, but you can use any credit card. You can buy physical … [Read the rest]
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