Mint offers online budget tracking alerts to FBI

You may have seen in the news this week that undercover FBI agents are having a hard time staying on top of their bills. In fact, phone companies have recently cut off FBI wiretaps because of their repeated failures to pay bills on time. We can sympathize. It’s challenging enough to [...]

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A Christmas Shopping Financial Planning Disaster

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a regular post of horrible financial mistakes. Today’s story involves a little bit of holiday shopping blooper…

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A Mortgage Negotiation Mistake

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves making the mistake of not negotiating mortgage closing costs…

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My Dumbest Investment

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves a “dumbest investment” moment, in which a person held onto their stock options too long…

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Debt Mangement - The Bike That Crashed Me Financially

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves an unwise purchase decision that had lasting financial repercussions…

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Financial Mangement, Reducing Debt in Iraq: $68K to $10K in One Year

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves Nick, an Air Force officer who volunteered to go to Iraq so that he can earn more money and reduce his debt.

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Poor Financial Management The (College) Major Stumble

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves difficult choices that’s unfortunately frequent among some college students…

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Living On A Credit Line

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves a person using their credit card as overdraft protection…

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My Mom Stole My Identity

Train Wreck Tuesdays are a weekly post of horrible financial mistakes from our readers. This week’s story involves a very unfortunate identity theft that hits very close to home.

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Win a Free Personal Finance Book!

Do you want a free personal finance book? Submit your financial train wreck stories to us, if you story gets chosen, you’ll win a personal finance book of your choice. Check out the post for more information.

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