By Lynn Hayes – My school district offered the services of a financial advisor, and I visited her several times before deciding to retire. After teaching ten-year-olds for 35 years, I was looking forward to depositing my alarm clock in the Goodwill bin and hitting the half-off sales on a
By Ellen Dolgen − Forget your 2014 retirement age. Let’s talk about your 2014 encore career age—and it’s now. Never heard of an encore career this New Year? That’s about to change. In fact, as Marci Alboher—a former lawyer and reporter who is fittingly now the vice president of Encore.org—writes
By Caitlin Ultimo for Ideas That Spark What does your dream future entail? A fabulous jet-set life? Or more like a quiet cottage by the sea? Either way, you might have a general idea of how much you’ll need to make it happen. But the reality is, when it comes
By Elena Donovan Mauer for Completely You – I believe that everyone on my Christmas list deserves a great gift carefully selected just for them. But I refuse to spend every weekend in December running around a mall carrying a million bags, overheated in a winter sweater. Every year, I
If you have jewelry that you no longer wear or perhaps has been handed down from your parents and you don’t plan to give it to your children, perhaps you should consider turning it into cash. Here are some of the ways others have turned jewelry into some extra money
From Financial Empowerment: Realign Your Finances to God’s Will By Pamela Carmichael – Excerpt from Chapter 1: The Bible provides God’s solution to man’s sin problem. As believers we know that Christ has saved us from sin and eternal death, given us eternal life, delivered us from sin’s bondage, healed
By Italina Kirknis J.D. – Most of us have credit cards but few of us have done the following. Begin saving by taking these steps. 1. Credit Card vs. Debit Card. Some people make a purchase with their credit card and worry about how they’re going to come up with
By Sara Canuso – Seven years ago, two months prior to my 55th birthday, I woke up and made the choice that Today is the Day–the start of a more abundant life and a higher level of living, success, freedom and, above all, happiness. I guess I was finally tired
By Susan Stilwell – Passwords can be a pain. Since we have so many of them and they’re easy to forget, we tend to find one we like (and can remember!) and use it for multiple accounts. While that’s good for our forgetfulness, it’s bad for our security. The most
By Melodee K. Currier – A friend of mine travels fifty miles a day to a job she doesn’t like. She’s waiting for the day she can collect her pension and social security. This woman is an artist and a great home stager, yet she spends her days gritting her
By Carol L. Doyel You may or may not believe that we’re in for a financial disaster if we don’t figure out how to fix our debt problem and resolve the funding issues with Social Security as well as the many other Federal programs that we enjoy as Americans. Whether you do or
By Jeannette Lichner – So where have you ended up financially at the end of 2012? Where you hoped? In a bit of debt? In lots of debt? Feeling good or not so good about your finances? The most frequent money concern and priority for 2013 people share with me
As prices continue to climb for milk and meat and other food items it becomes harder and harder to make ends meet at the grocery store. There are things you can do to reduce the amount of money you are spending at the grocery store without having to limit what
By Nancy Padberg – There is a lot of discussion these days in the media about baby boomers and their economic strength. It’s well known now that baby boomers hold 70 percent of the U.S. wealth and will be inheriting trillions in the next 20 years. However, who are the other marketing groups
By Natalie Sisson – So you’re a freelancer or contractor and want to take your business on the road. After all, isn’t this kind of ‘freedom’ one of the biggest perks of flexible working arrangements? Thanks to a few handy apps, self-discipline and routine, you can pick up and plant
By Jill Demby Guest – Lost your job? Your home? Your husband? Your investments? Need to quickly reinvent your financial life? Wonder if it’s even possible? Can you reinvent your finances in mid-life? That’s the question I posed to financial strategist, Lorraine Conaway of Conaway & Conaway in Brea, California.
By Nancy Shonka Padberg – Politicians and the media’s attention will be on consumers ages 47-67 (Baby Boomers) this year for the Presidential election. Occasionally, I still have to educate young media buyers on this significant demographic — not sure what marketing classes are teaching in colleges these days. How
By Penelope Lemov – A little–perhaps a lot–of sympathy may be in order here. Our children and their friends are coming out of college and graduate school drowning in debt and buffeted by woes that ripple out from that. “It’s a very different world than 20 years ago” says Nancy
By Patricia Stallworth – April is National Financial Literacy Month and a study released by the National Foundation for Credit Counseling and the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association showed that 42% of Americans give themselves a C, D or F when it comes to their knowledge of personal finance so
By Patricia Stallworth – How do you know if you’re being squeezed by your money? Sometimes we live with things one way for so long that it seems normal, and we can’t imagine it any other way. But if you’re being squeezed by your money, there’s a problem. And it’s
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