Personal Finance 101

Today, with so many financial obligations and tons of financial options and services, we know that money management may seem difficult and confusing at times. There’s a way to make life’s financial challenges less complicated by creating a budget.

Budgets are like the New Year’s resolutions of personal finance. We all know we should have one and we all know it’s a fairly simple thing to follow—at least in theory.

You’ve likely heard about credit scores before (thanks to all those commercials with terrible jingles), but what do you actually know about them?

Many people believe that improving them is a matter of trial and error and, as a result, there’s a lot of “credit score advice” floating around that can end up doing more harm than good. Read about these 4 myths.

How did you decide where to open your first bank account? Where did you learn to budget or pay bills? If you have a money question now, what do you do? Who do you turn to?

While some of us dream of a wildly successful Internet career, the rest of us are happy to settle for online earnings that are a little more modest. Well, before you go signing up for every free trial and installing every search bar plug-in, consider the selling points. 

When you start looking for financial advice (or any kind of advice, for that matter), experts will share their take on what’s “good” and what’s “bad.”

Think back to your most recent savings goal. How long did you have to save in order to reach it?