The two most popular New Year’s resolutions are losing weight and getting out of debt. Money Crashers wants your physical life and your financial life to be as fit as possible, so the next five articles will be a series to help you get rid of your financial gut. Step 0 to becoming financially...

I wanted to share with you my accomplishments and failures for 2009 and hopefully you’ll share with me some of yours. Part of growing as an individual and becoming wiser involves knowing your failures and accomplishments. My Career I spent the first 5 months working at a financial services company...

What Is The Plutus Awards? A few personal finance bloggers have created the Plutus Awards which will celebrate the best in personal finance for 2009. There will be two different types of awards. The first set is the Plutus Awards, and you will nominate your top three personal finance products and services....

Still need some extra cash for holiday gifts? Are you running out of cash and thinking of turning to credit cards? Well, CreditCardChaser.com wants to give you $500 in the form of an American Express gift card. The contest is easy. Tell them what you LOVE about a particular credit card and tell them...

A lot of you will be looking to buy the important men in your life something special, but you don’t want to break the bank doing it. Gift giving is an important symbol of affection, but I don’t like when people go overboard without the means to do it. Unless you have a bunch of money to...

A lot of you will be looking to buy the important men in your life something special, but you don’t want to break the bank doing it. Gift giving is an important symbol of affection, but I don’t like when people go overboard without the means to do it. Unless you have a bunch of money to...

Personal finance applications and budgeting tools have become extremely popular over the past two years, with Mint.com being one of the largest players out of the group, but there are other alternative applications out there that offer a variety of different features that you may be interested. BudgetPulse.com...

I know what you’re all thinking, “It’s the holidays, we’re going to spend a lot of money and there’s nothing we can do about it”. It’s simply not true. You don’t need to break the bank to have a fun Thanksgiving. I love holidays, but they are so over-commercialized....

Black Friday is just a week away, and Cyber Monday is 10 days away. I am a big fan of these iconic shopping days, not because people get whipped up in a frenzy and not because I love waiting in ridiculous long lines, but I truly believe that you can get some great deals if you are smart about it. Have...

The past 14 months have been one of the hardest time period for Americans looking to find work. The recession will not be over until the unemployment rate stops rising and starts receding again. Our economy cannot flourish without people contributing to the workforce and making enough money to put it...