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The Biggest Financial Mistakes to Avoid in Your 20s

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Not to mention, low wages, staggering student debt and compounding credit card debt. In the long run, this ignorance is bliss mentality only leads to more problems, whether it’s mounting credit card debt or puny retirement funds. If you ignore the data, you can get caught in lifestyle creep,” he says.

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A Single Mother Struggling to Budget Weighs the Balance Between Just Surviving and Really Living

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So, I had to learn to stick to my budget , which wasn’t easy, especially for someone who’d had to repeat a year of high school math. How did I rationalize spending money that put me slightly over budget? What I took from this is that, if we don’t deny ourselves small pleasures, we have a better chance of sticking to our main goal.

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A Millennial’s Guide to Finances: 5 Things to Start Before You Turn 30

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Track your budget. If you need additional capabilities, she suggests you try You Need a Budget (YNAB ), but note that this requires a monthly fee. advises you to write a list of financial and lifestyle goals. Separate your goals into five, 10 and even 20-year plans based on your determined spending and saving habits.

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3 Ways to Avoid Overspending During the Holidays

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We’d spend the majority of the year being diligent budgeters and ignoring our desires to take lavish vacations, spend heavily on meals or buy the newest gadget. Every January, we would find ourselves with a large credit card balance and would have to adjust our goals to make up for it. And then November would roll around.

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The Biggest Financial Mistakes to Avoid in Your 20s

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Not to mention, low wages, staggering student debt and compounding credit card debt. In the long run, this ignorance is bliss mentality only leads to more problems, whether it’s mounting credit card debt or puny retirement funds. If you ignore the data, you can get caught in lifestyle creep,” he says.

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Concurrent Sessions – Thursday

Office Dynamics

Owe – lifestyle of debit. Own – lifestyle of saving. Make a list of short-term goals. Prioritize your short-term goals. Prioritize your short-term goals. Budget now. Decide where the margin goes to accommodate the short-term goals. Saving secures it. Margin = Options = Power.

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Small Business World News Round-up – 2009/12/15

The Small Business Blog

6 days ago RT @ WinWeb Focus on Your Small Business Goals - [link] 6 days ago Perluondo: "They're exactly the demographics I'm looking for." Majority of SMEs have bad credit rating : Nearly two-thirds of small businesses have a bad credit score, says credit referencing agency Graydon UK. — ST.

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