Paying yourself first is one of the most powerful and underappreciated techniques for strengthening your personal financial situation. When you “pay yourself first” you treat your savings goal as another bill that must be paid each month, along with your mortgage or
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Category: Savings
When we set out to improve our financial health by saving more money, there’s no shortage of advice on how to do it. Unfortunately, sometimes the methods that are suggested represent too much of a change for some people to handle all
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Category: Savings
Given the fact that they’re used less frequently, you might think that money orders would have faded away or become wholly irrelevant in the world of personal finance. Since getting a credit card has become relatively easy, and anyone with a checking
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Category: Checking
It’s rare these days to find anyone who doesn’t do at least some of their banking online. Online banking is convenient, and many institutions offer free bill pay services and even smartphone apps that let you deposit checks into your account without
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Category: Online Banking
If you’re diligent about trying to achieve your estate planning goals then you’ve probably prepared a will, set up a power of attorney and possibly also a living trust. You’ve probably also taken those goals into account when you named the beneficiaries
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Category: Checking