Three Ways to Ask for More Money

Tired of your high cable bill? What about your high interest-rate credit card? Let’s also not forget those pesky bank fees. Here are three ways to save some money from each of these financial bills: ask the company!

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Personal Finance Tracking: Lost Wallet? Top Six Things To Do Now.

Losing your wallet or purse can be like losing a Wii Sports tennis match to your 6 year-old nephew: it’s demoralizing and humiliating, and had you just been a bit more careful, it probably wouldn’t have happened. Here are four things to do before you lose your wallet, and six things to do after you lose it.

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Home budget: Affordable and Cheap Dates

Young. In Love. And a thin wallet. Actually, scratch that. You don’t need to be young, in love, or even have a thin wallet to enjoy cheap, affordable, and fun dates. Here’s a list of ideas you can try out for a fun day/night with that special someone.

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Debt Planning: 20 Dont’s for Credit Repair

Whether you’re fixing the nasty credit history that your ex-hubby screwed up, or just digging yourself out of past credit mishaps, the to-dos to credit repair is abound on the Internet. Having said that, here are twenty things you definitely shouldn’t do while repairing your credit history.

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Money Saving Tips: Lunch on the Cheap

How can you save $988 per year by packing your lunch? Awesome blogger Clever Dude and his wife, Clever Dudette (a Registered Dietitian) shows the world a lunch menu that’s both enjoyable and easy on the wallet.

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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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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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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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Financial Planning: The Three Banking Regulations / Laws That You Should Know

Ah. Banking regulations and laws, these are the stuff that truly inspires excitement — about as much excitement as watching another re-run of Everybody Loves Raymond. Taking the fun factor aside, here are three common banking regulations that you will come across everyday, which you should know just a little bit more about.

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