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Join our Tweetchat this Thursday at 12:00 p.m. Pacific/ 3p.m. Eastern for lively conversation and a chance to win a $200 gift card, one of two $50 gift cards, or one of three copies of The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty! Use #WBChat and #AskCarrie to participate.

This week's topic: Common Money Mistakes. Find out how to avoid common money mistakes by learning to live within your means, making sure to save for retirement, and being prepared for unexpected expenses. Tell us if you think you’ve ever made a money mistake.

For an easy way to keep track of the conversation, try using our special Tweetchat Chatroom.

Anyone can participate, but you must be following @WiseBread and RSVP below to win our prizes!

•  First place: $200 Amazon GC
• Second place: $50 Amazon GC
• Third place: $50 Amazon GC
• Fourth Place: A Copy of The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty
• Fifth Place: A Copy of The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty
• Sixth Place: A Copy of The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty

Winner must be US resident 18 or older. Winners are randomly selected and announced within 1 day of the chat.

To make it easier for us to keep track of attendees and pick our winners, please RSVP below with your twitter ID (put that in the "Link Title" field), email address, and your twitter URL (put that in the "URL" field, do not put your blog's url in there). Winners will be selected at random from RSVPs. If a winner is chosen who RSVPed but did not attend a 2nd winner will be chosen.

This Week's Chat is Sponsored by Schwab Community Services

This week, Schwab Community Services is sponsoring $300 in prizes for our chat! Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, CFP®, Senior Vice President, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., will join our chat from @CarrieSchwab, so she can share tips about how to avoid common money mistakes.

More About Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz

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Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, CFP®, is a leading advocate for financial literacy and one of America’s most trusted sources for financial advice. As leader of Schwab Community Services as well as board chair and president of Charles Schwab Foundation, she is devoted to making investing more accessible to the American public, helping men and women from all walks of life take better control of their finances.

Schwab-Pomerantz speaks and writes extensively about personal finance issues. Her latest book, The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances after Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions (Crown Business, 2014), was described by The New York Times as “overwhelmingly appealing” and “an excellent personal finance book.”  Schwab-Pomerantz also writes a weekly column called Ask Carrie, which appears on schwab.com, Parade.com, the Huffington Post, and is syndicated through Creators News Service.

Schwab-Pomerantz’s media and public appearances have included Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNBC and NPR. In 2015 she was nominated by the San Francisco Chronicle for its inaugural “Visionary of the Year” award, recognizing leaders in the Bay Area who drive social and economic change through innovation.

You can follow Carrie Schwab Pomerantz on Twitter at @CarrieSchwab and on LinkedIn.

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