Financial Foreplay: Are You Doing It?

April 27th, 2010

Time and again money is cited as one of the top causes for fights in relationships and divorce.  One way to prevent wallet wars is to engage in financial foreplay.   But first… some basics. What is financial foreplay? The process of getting to know your sweetie’s most intimate feelings about money. Why is it [...]

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3 Signs You are Suffering from Lifestyle Creep

April 20th, 2010

Do you ever feel like your possessions are holding you hostage? Or perhaps that you’ve bitten off more stuff than you can chew?  If you’ve ever suffered the pangs of financial indigestion, you may be one of the millions of Americans suffering from… lifestyle creep. What is Lifestyle Creep? Not to be confused with “Keeping [...]

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Are You Dating a (Financial) Deadbeat?

February 8th, 2010

Ahhh, it’s February – the month of romance.  While thoughts of love are in the air, down here on the ground the financially savvy person might want to give some solid thought to whether their sweetie is in the red or in the black when it comes to their personal finances. While this may not [...]

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Live It, Love It, Earn It: Marianna Olszewski

January 24th, 2010

This is an interview with the Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Marianna Olszewski… super inspiring money expert, life coach, and author of the newly released book Live It, Love It, Earn It.  Marianna is the embodiment of the American Dream. From a modest start (living over a butcher shop with her parents and four siblings) [...]

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3 Common Credit Card Problems… and How to Deal with Them

January 11th, 2010

This is the second of two guest posts from the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE), a non-profit dedicated to improving the financial literacy of all Americans.  I frequently get asked for unbiased web-resources for financial literacy, and am thrilled to be able to bring this great organization to your attention. NEFE operates the site [...]

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