Personal Finance Interview with Gary from The Dollar Stretcher

The Dollar Stretcher is an excellent website for everyone that strives to “live better for less.” At the Stretcher, you’ll find an informative weekly personal finance newsletter that’s read by over 200,000 readers. Check out today’s interview to learn more about the personal finance of the man behind The Dollar Stretcher.

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Create a Personal Budget: When The Parental “Free Ride” Train Breaks Down

Remember that time when your parents paid for everything? Yeah, that was awesome. Too bad it didn’t come with the warning label: Expires at the age of 21. Not applicable to credit card balances, regardless of promises made by parental unit.

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Mint.com Contest: Win 20lbs of Mints

Want to win 20 lbs of Mints? Check out the contest details!

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Debt Management Tools: The Cost of a Credit Card’s Convenience?

Every once in awhile, Mint gets email with questions on personal finance; and every once in awhile, we put on our thinking cap and (try to) write a thoughtful response to these emails. Here’s one such email from one of our readers, and the corresponding opinions from this very minty blog.

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Personal Expense Tracking: Payday Loan to Keep the Lights On

Personal expense tracking is something that we care about here at Mint. Learn more with great personal expense tracking tips in our blog article index.

Today’s train wreck is about payday loans. One great way to avoid payday loans is through personal expense tracking and solid budgeting.
I think the worst thing I ever did was [...]

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Online Finance Software: A Minty Way to Keep Track of Your Daily Spending

How much money did you spend on In-N-Out, Alerto’s burrito, and fast food last month? What about gas? Or Groceries? Do you ever wonder where your money went at the end of the month? Keeping track of your daily spending can definitely be a challenge, but thankfully, there will soon be a very minty way to do it!

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Personal Expenses Management - How to Tackle Your Debt in Five Simple Steps

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

Any Mint reader who finds themselves stuck under a mountain of consumer or credit card debt understands the anxiety involved with owing money. Over half of American families with credit cards report [...]

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Tracking Finances: Riding the Dot-Com Bubble

Tracking finances is something that we care about here at Mint. Learn more about tracking finances in our blog article index.

In the late 90’s when the world was ablaze with dotcom millionaires and it looked as though the stock market could make me wealthy too, I bought a lot of technology stocks — including some [...]

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Carnival Monday: Personal Finance & Family Life

Happy Monday to all and we hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day weekend. The 100th Carnival of Personal Finance is live at My Open Wallet! There are many great entries, so if you have an hour (or five) to kill, check out the carnival!

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Debt Management Tools: Four Methods For Paying Your Credit Card Bills On Time

Late fees hurt. Seriously. For college students, the average late fee represents 78 tacos from Jack in the Box. For young professionals, they represent dinner for two at a moderately-priced restaurant. For the families with teenage children… well, late fees represent the extra charges on your cell phone bill from excessive text messaging. Thankfully for all of us, there are two simple methods to pay your bills on time, and two last-minute methods for those of us with a memory of a scarecrow.

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