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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

Finding the key out of your own personal debt

Unless you are a far better financial person then the rest of us, you have acquired some debt.   Whether it is just usual debt like mortgages and student loans or more drastic like several lines of credit expended and you are on the edge of foreclosure and bankruptcy, you need to find a way to [...]
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

Get a little more money from an online only bank

Now, if you were like me and now are a little hesitant about locking too much of your money in investments, here is a way to make interest without locking away your money.   Online banks like ING direct and Ally (formerly GMAC) have floating interest rates on their savings accounts around 5%.  Now,
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

The Glory of Ebay

If you haven’t discovered how much money you can save on Ebay, then you have missed out.   The chances to get a amazing deal off of this site is good if you know how to play the bidding game and not getting sucked into a bidding war. Tactics that usually work for me is [...]
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

We are not heating the outdoors anymore

Sometimes you have to spend money to save money.   Though this is hard to shallow at the beginning, you will see how big the difference when you see your heating bill the next month.  I couldn’t believe how much heat loss was happening. Double pane windows are the way to go also, getting insulation
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

Credit Card Consolidation

So as we are finding with the current financial problems that the credit card companies have not been very nice to the general population.  They are finding out that they have been raising people’s interest rates and charging them excess overdraft charges. As the Federal government tries to rein tha
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

Resolutions to stay out of the poor house

I think that is a pretty good plan to avoid that and I don’t think that anyone would argue with that.   So I am going to write out my resolutions so that we have a place to come back to when I start to forget about then and go back to my old routines. [...]
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

Christmas – My tips to cutting extra costs

Oh this crazy season,  December is the time of year where I max out all my credit cards.  This year I am trying to change that and I have a few ideas that will trim a little of the Christmas money fat. First of all, this year we are going to cut down our own tree.   [...]
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

No surprise… Shop on Black Friday!!!

Well, it’s that time of year again, time for Thanksgiving and Black Friday, the two busiest days of my life. One day I spent cooking and eating the greatest food on Earth, then I have a midday nap and I get ready to stand out in the cold so that I can get amazing shopping [...]
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

A few tips… A little more change

It doesn’t take much but there are very easy ways to save a little money.   By doing simple things, we can stretch that dollar as far as we can.   I would like to take credit for this next article but someone beat me to it. Save Money In These Difficult Times by: mparsona Most [...]
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How 2 Avoid The Red · 2Y ago

Beef Up The Bank Account!

Watching you money is so important these days! No one wants to be in the red. Let’s talk about tips to help us stay out of the red – and to save money too Let’s beef up that bank account!
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