Are You What You Spend? How to Create a Personal Budget.

We’ve all heard that “we are what we eat”. Is it equally true that how we choose to spend our money also defines us? Are we what we spend? And if so, then shouldn’t we make sure that our spending choices align with our personal goals? Are you curious to discover how well or poorly your spending reflects your personal priorities?

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Credit Card Balance Transfers: Pros, Cons and Personal Budget Management

We posted recently on several ways to practice sound personal budget management, including balance transfers as one way to reduce the cost of your debt… while you get busy paying it down. We got questions on the pros and cons of balance transfers, so we’re following up with a deeper dive on that topic.

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Personal Finance - Keeping up with the Joneses

We came across this blog post by David at MyTwoDollars right about the time we were launching our new SpendSpace feature last month. As we were designing this feature, we gave a lot of thought to whether or not we should all be apsiring to “keep up with the Joneses”…

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Personal Financial Planning: Putting Home Ownership Within Your Reach

Buying a first home is perhaps one of the most important decisions most of us will ever make. It ranks up there with choosing a college degree, career, marriage, and children. Fortunately, saving for a home can be within everyone’s reach, because you can get there by working smarter — not harder — at some things you already do today.

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Personal Financial Tracking and Four Steps to Establishing and Achieving Personal Financial Goals

It is said that “people never plan to fail; they just fail to plan.” It can also be said that setting a detailed goal is far different than merely aspiring for something. Getting out of debt, buying a new home, or creating a work/life balance requires a clear strategy…

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Budget Management Software and Secrets to Budgeting Success

The major difference between people ruled by money worries and people in control of their financial destiny is that dreaded 6-letter word: BUDGET. Starting and maintaining a budget are hurdles many cannot overcome, and for that reason, they are forever struggling, living paycheck to paycheck. Here are five easy-to-follow steps that will help you get your budget and finances in order ASAP.

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Three Principles of Personal Finance: All You Need to Know for Financial Success

More than 10,000 books have been written about personal finance. You could spend a lifetime reading them. Some of them are great; others are 99% motivation, 1% actual, actionable information. The truth is personal finance is simple. Every one of these books can be reduced into three basic principles…

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Financial Planning for Success in Three Steps

Last week, we published Aaron Patzer’s Three Principles of Personal Finance in a three-part series. We welcome your comments. And if you found the article useful, we hope you’ll forward, Digg, or share the article so others get the message: it can be simple to manage your money well.

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Financial Management Tips For Selling Your Home

Financial management is something that we care about here at Mint. Learn more with great financial management tips in our blog article index.

If your home market has started to peak, you may be ready to sell your home. In the seller’s market, there’s a lot to research in order to keep your edge on the [...]

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Financial Preparation When Facing Divorce

Personal financial advisors and expense planning are two things that we care about here at Mint. Learn more with great expense planning tips in our blog article index.
The reality is staggering: as of 2005, around 41 percent of all first marriages end in divorce1. Taken by itself, the sheer emotional toll of that split can [...]

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