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Teach Children About Money With These 5 Fun Activities
Learning about finances can be intimidating and let’s face it, sometimes just boring. So, why not play some fun financial games with the family?
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Are You Aware of the COVID-19 Government Financial Relief Available?
A recent survey by Credit Karma of 1,037 U.S. adults conducted in April indicated that nearly 80% of consumers who have been unemployed and financially impacted by the coronvirus pandemic are not utilizing the COVID-19 government financial relief available to them. Although a majority of those who answered (roughly 79%) indicated that they knew about […]
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Limiting Beliefs and How They Impact Your Money
Limiting beliefs are nasty little gremlins. I imagine their bodies to be brownish green, squatty with warts all over. Their pointed yellow teeth gnaw away at confidence and seek to constrain happiness and limit our future by believing wrong ideas. You may think giving these things shape and form is a ridiculous notion, but I […]
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Kindness in the Time of Covid-19
For many of us, the world might seem a little bit scary and hopeless right about now now. We read or watch the news, hoping for something good, but often we end up hearing about things that fill us with anger, fear, or anxiety. When the Covid-19 pandemic began to pick up steam here in […]
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Learn How to Manage Your Money Better
Getting back on track financially can seem like a daunting — even impossible — task. As the debt mounts — and the paycheck stays the same or even dwindles — bankruptcy may seem like it’s in the offing. Pulling yourself up and out of financial troubles requires time and hard work. But it’s not impossible […]
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Report: Baby Boomers Enter Pandemic With Debt
Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of businesses and commerce across the United States, consumer confidence was reaching record levels. According to Experian’s 2019 Consumer Debt Study, released in early March, the average FICO score in the United States hit a record high of 703 as more Americans kept an eye on their credit […]
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Protecting Yourself From COVID-19 Scams
We’re in an extraordinary convergence of events; tax-refund season, stimulus payouts, pandemic, coronavirus shutdowns. If you add in any degree of fear or anxiety, you’ve got a situation ripe for predators to take advantage of. They’ve already started to pop up with their COVID-19 scams. Unfortunately, where the average compassionate person seeks to give, the […]
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How to Snowball Debt
If you’ve ever made a snowball before, you know how it works. It doesn’t take a massive amount of snow, at the start, to build that snowball. Instead, you start small, with a handful of the white stuff that you roll and roll in the snow until it becomes just the right size to throw […]
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Financial Caregiving During Covid-19 Crisis
January 2020 seems light years ago. Our hearts broke for Kobe Bryant’s family; we yawned at the Super Bowl ads; Meghan and Harry started packing their bags and on the 21st of that same month, the US announced its first case of COVID-19. We didn’t know what was coming and how quickly it would arrive. […]