Avoid Payday Loans

Payday loans, also called “cash advance loans,” “check advance loans,” “postdated check loans,” or “deferred-deposit check loans,” may seem like an easy solution to a temporary cash shortage, but for many people, payday loans are the beginning of a vicious and very expensive cycle that they find difficult if not impossible to get out of.Here’s [...]

What to Do When You Have a Car You Can’t Afford

 
We know that purchases are based on emotion, so it makes sense that sometimes people will buy vehicles based on their feelings about a certain type of car or a new car versus an older car, rather than by logic and what one could and one could not afford. Sometimes people lose their jobs, and [...]

Credit Cards: Manage Your Finances

A Credit card is the most sensitive product of a bank. Most of the time, we can’t avoid the attractive offers that come with it and enter the world of credit. Only two years ago few banks offered credit cards, but now almost all banks are into the credit card business. Therefore the credit [...]

Managing Your Debt and Credit

 
Avoiding credit card overload increases your opportunities to save and invest for important goals.
1 Managing Debt and Credit
Credit was once defined as “Man’s Confidence in Man.” But in fact, the definition of credit today is more like “Man’s Confidence in Himself.” Using credit today means you have confidence in your future ability to pay that [...]

Top 10 Tips to Break the Credit Card Habit

If you’re a Type A credit card user, chances are you know it whether or not you are willing to admit it. If you can answer yes to these questions, then a lifestyle change is in order.

Do you pay interest fees when you send in your credit card payment?
Have you ever paid your credit card [...]