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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Family Budget: Teaching Children Money Skills

How do you teach your kids better money skills? The earlier you start exposing your children to basic money matters, they better they will be able to understand the concepts and value of money as they get older. Check out this article for some tips and suggestions on teaching your child money skills.

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Budgeting Your Money: Avoid Spending Into a Stressful Financial Life

I’ve always loved to shop, and I think a lot of women and men can identify with the lure of shiny new things. Unfortuantely, I was never one with strong personal budget management skills. While in college and shortly after, I was with a man who made less money then myself.
He’s generally conservative [...]

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Family Budget - The Four Terrible Money Mistakes We Make With Our Kids

Creating a family budget is something that we care about here at Mint. Learn more tips to build a family budget in our blog article index.

If you’re lucky enough to be a parent, no doubt you’ve already planned out the first eighteen years of your child’s life. True to your dreams, they should have all [...]

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Home Budget: The Pastor’s House (Updated)

Mint’s note: Below is the follow-up we received from the Tuesday Train Wreck posted two weeks ago, entitled The Pastor’s House. In this story, the submitter purchased a house from their pastor, who exploited their trust in him to sell them a house that required major improvements, under an unfavorable contract. It looked [...]

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Home Budget: The Pastor’s House

My wife was seven months pregnant. I just landed a new job making $15,000 more. We just saved $9,000 dollars. We were ready to buy a house. Our first house. We had enough in the home budget.
We found out our Pastor was selling his house. He was working on buying a new house, contingent [...]

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60-Second Guide to Smart Refinancing

The financial industry is fond of rules-of-thumb, and it can regale you with plenty of tales on the topic of refinancing. But there’s a lot more to this big-ticket decision than simply deciding whether to do it based on a minimal interest rate movement or monthly mortgage savings.

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