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Here's What Happens If You Don't Pay Your Taxes

If you think owing money to the mob sounds scary, try owing money to the federal government.

6 Personal Finance Books You Should Read

If you're looking to deepen your personal finance knowledge, you'll profit by reading any of these six in depth and clearly written books.

8 Great Places to Take the Family for Spring Break

Looking to book your annual spring break vacation with the family? Consider these fun and frugal destinations.

9 Ways Staying on Budget Can Be Fun (Really!)

Let's face it: Staying on budget is hard. But if you make it fun, you'll get some short-term kicks while you're saving for long-term goals.

Best Money Tips: Ways to Beat Inflation

Today we found some awesome articles on ways to beat inflation, cutting health care costs, and saving big on back to school shopping.

What to Do With 100 Tomatoes

Growing your own fruits and vegetables can provide a bounty of fresh produce. Here's what to do when things get a little too bountiful.

Best Money Tips: Feel Better, Look Younger

Today, we share an easy way to feel and look better, a strategy to convince your spouse to help manage your finances, trips for growing basil at home, and more!

Best Money Tips: Making money with your home or car

Today, we share tips for anyone who wants to make some extra money with their home or car, recipes for real-looking fake snow, and advice to help lay down emotional baggage.

If You're Doing These 5 Things, Your Saving Efforts Are for Nothing

Saving is hard, but chances are, if you're doing any of this stuff with your money, you're not saving at all.

What QE2 Could Mean for Ordinary Americans

A second round of quantitative easing, or QE2, could have a real and significant impact on households nationwide. Learn why some Americans might soon have to do more with less.

Best Money Tips: Could Your Job Be Outsourced?

Today, we share how you can tell if your job could be outsourced, ways clean with a banana skin or a coffee filter, and pointers on the art of negotiation.

Best Money Tips: Cheap and Easy Halloween Costumes for Pets

Today we found some stellar articles on cheap and easy costumes for pets, conquering lifestyle creep, and going green to save money.

How to Save Big at a Going Out of Business Sale

Don't show up at a going out of business sale without these shopping tips in your bag

Smart Investors Have These 6 Traits — Do You?

It takes money to make money investing, and it takes a certain kind of person. Find out if you are, and if you aren't — how to become one.

Best Money Tips: Easy Ways to Minimize Jet Lag

Today we found articles on easy ways to minimize jet lag, when to replace common household items, and ways to have summer fun for under $100.

Best Money Tips: 22 Airport Hacks for Your Next Trip

Today we found articles on airport hacks for your next flight, things to do before you start looking for a job, and tips for hosing a summer BBQ in a small space.

Wise Bread's Frugal Food Gone Wrong

From cooking blunders to dining-out disasters, sometimes our cheap eating goes terribly awry. Read Wise Bread writers' stories of sweet eats turned sour.

8 Exciting Ways to See the Country This Summer

Looking to spice up your summer vacation? These travel tips will make you want to hit the road ASAP.

How to Fix a Bike Flat

The open road, miles away from home (and cell coverage), is no place to discover that you don’t know how to repair a flat tire. Learn now.