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My 2016 Budget Challenge: How to Buy a House When You Live Paycheck to Paycheck

Max shares what she learned about compound savings while saving for a house — and how she's using those lessons in this year's budget challenge.

8 of Your Childhood Heroes Filed for Bankruptcy

Honest Abe's not the only role model to have filed for Chapter 11.

How to Understand and Protect Yourself From Inflation

Inflation is inevitable. What you can change, though, is how you deal with it — and these decisions can make or break your financial future.

8 Cheap Ways to Save Money on Gas

Here's a list of strategies, products, and more to help push the price at the pump back a bit and keep your wallet and tank full.

How to Get Magazines for Cheap (or Free!)

Magazines are fun to read — but buying them at the store can get crazy expensive. Learn how to get magazine fix and save.

Best Money Tips: 5 More Ways to Screw Your Credit Card Company

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips roundup. In this article, we’ll look at 5 legal ways to get your way with your credit card companies, the 5 grammatical errors that make

Jumpstart Your Job Search With Instagram

Instagram is a lot of fun, but it can also be used strategically to help you land your next job. Really!

Financial Freedom and Using Passion to Budget

If we are undirected, we are susceptible to all the external forces of consumerism around us, and whamo, we’re a full-on rat in the race, wondering when the wheel will st

Best Money Tips: How to Curb the Urge to Buy

Today, we have a method to help you stop buying things on impulse, tips for price-matching savings, ways to spend less on organic food, and more!

10 Lifestyle Changes That Will Always Pay Off

Change is never easy — but the results are almost always worth the effort.

6 Ways to Earn Extra Holiday Cash

With all the gifts you'd like to buy, the most wonderful time of the year can be expensive. Here's how to pick up some side cash to fatten your wallet this holiday season.

4 Times You Should Splurge and Hire a Pro

You probably already hire a pro when it comes to plumbing and dentistry. Here are four common DIY tasks you probably should hire out for, too.

Tech-Savvy People Have These 10 Things in Their Homes — Do You?

If you're reading this you're already kind of tech-savvy. But if you've got most of this stuff, then you are really, actually tech savvy.

6 Ways to Read Comic Books for Free (or Almost Free)

To cut back on costs, I stopped reading comic books after high school. Then I realized I could get my comic fix for free, with no superpowers required.

Best Money Tips: Green Garage Makeover Tips

Today we found some awesome articles on green makeover tips for your garage, ways to overcome embarrassment, and tips for using a credit card outside of the US.

Best Money Tips: How to Teach Kids to Save Money

Today we found some great articles on teaching your kids to save money, ways to reduce your grocery bill, and financial planning tips you can't live without.

How Your New Job Might Affect Your Mortgage Application

You just started a new job. Now, you want a new home. With the right strategy, you can still get a mortgage.

Tips for Accomplishing More in a Day

Time management is a difficult skill to master, but these simple tricks can help you do more and worry less.

Get Free Stuff by Eating Cereal, Drinking Soda, and Watching TV

If you're willing to search for product codes, tweet a brand name, or watch a product demo, you can get free stuff. Sit up straight, couch potato!

11 Cool Uses for Your Coffee Maker

Your coffee pot can't fry an egg, but it can certainly poach one. What else can your coffee maker do for you?