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Travelers didn’t have to consider how to pack a backpack and skip the baggage fees 20 years ago. Packing for a flight was a lot simpler. After all, just by purchasing an airline ticket, you’d have the right to a checked bag and a couple carry-ons. But things have...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Older Americans in the bottom 20% of wealth die nine years earlier than those in the...
I went a few months without sharing a budget update, but I’m back at it. We were still managing our money with YNAB as we always do, I just didn’t write a blog post to share all of our details for the past few months.
Why do I share my budget online anyway? Well, most people didn’t formally...
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Frugal folks and others know that buying a car and driving it until the wheels fall off is a great way to save cash year after year. Some drivers even push their vehicles to 200,000 miles and beyond. The average car has just a 4.8% chance of making it to...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. The nightmare began with a single computer pop-up. According to The New York Post...
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By and large, vehicle prices have been on a steady march upward since 2019, according to federal price data. But, in a recent analysis, online car-buying marketplace CarEdge has found a handful of models that will actually become more affordable next year. CarEdge...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Vision loss is one of aging’s most feared realities, but a recent breakthrough may...
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People who are new to the Medicare system are sometimes shocked to learn that Medicare isn’t free. In fact, health care is the third-biggest type of expense, after housing and transportation, for U.S. households led by someone who is 65 or older, according to...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. In a retail world ruled by algorithms and flash sales, department stores still deliver...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Owning your home outright and seeing a cool million in your retirement account...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Every day, money headlines promise secret millionaire tricks, instant debt fixes...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Gold is holding near record highs after breaking above $4,000 an ounce in early October...
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You hopefully already know that the standard deduction tends to rise each year to account for inflation. But it’s not the only tax break with thresholds that tend to increase annually. Limits on certain federal income tax credits also typically receive inflation...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Amazon’s facing heat over allegedly misleading Prime Day discounts, so if you’ve ever...
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Advertising Disclosure: When you buy something by clicking links within this article, we may earn a small commission, but it never affects the products or services we recommend. Getting your finances in order often requires more than good intentions. For many...
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