Prepaid Cards and Weekly Budgets; a Winning Combination to Control Spending

January 31, 2011

By Jennifer Boutwell, VP Marketing, InComm The holidays are over and the December bills are starting to hit. January’s expenses keep coming and February is looming. It’s no surprise that January is designated “Financial Awareness Month.” One common theme these days is people trying to control their weekly expenses in order to budget their money [...]

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Frugal Live Chat by Bankrate

January 18, 2011

Debt Free Hispanic to be featured on live Bankrate.com chat about frugality. Frugal ‘Free’ for All Have two cents? Throw them in Bankrate.com’s Frugal ‘Free’-for-All live chat! Share your money-saving tips with other bargain hunters and frugalistas. This is a ‘BYOB’ event, so bring your own budget!   Know how to stretch your budget with [...]

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Credit Cards : How Latin America compares to the rest of the world

January 18, 2011

“Just charge it.” These words are spoken by millions of customers of every race and gender across the world each day. Credit cards have become a staple in our modern-day economy because of their convenience and capacity to let us to live beyond our means. We can buy anything we want from anywhere in the [...]

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Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired

November 16, 2010

Do you ever feel like you are just spinning your wheels? If you do, then don’t just worry about it, do something different than when you are currently doing. The majority of people in America feel this way because their finances work like a revolving door, money comes in and money goes right out again. [...]

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Help Me Give Away $5K of Dave Ramsey’s Money

November 3, 2010

Vote Here! I need your help so I can give away $5K of Dave Ramsey’s money. That’s right, all I need you to do is vote for my video on his website. I’ll be posting updates everyday to where where I stand in the voting. Every vote helps so please keep voting and help me spread [...]

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Overdue Medical Bill

October 28, 2010

As some of you may know, my wife and I are expecting our first child. We have had our share of doctor visits and routine checkups. With checkups come random medical bills from companies that your physician may have outsourced blood testing and other forms of tests that needed to be done. It just so [...]

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Chicago Vacation Paid in Full

September 14, 2010

The best part of vacation is that you can bring home souvenirs and not credit card bills. I’ve heard of people going on vacation and putting everything on credit and I gotta tell you the thought of doing that makes my head hurt. Anyways, so here we are outside of Wrigley Field right after the [...]

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Changing Family Tree

July 16, 2010

A lot has been changing in my household lately. For one, my wife and I are expecting a baby girl in November 2010, our first. We are already starting to make preparations for when she arrives. So yes, the title is true, my family tree is changing. I have also asked my wife to stay [...]

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Student Loan Debt

June 2, 2010

I thought I graduated college with a lot of debt, $20,000. Not all of it was from student loans but the majority of it was. Have you read the recent article in the NY Times about the student who graduated from NYU with $100,000 of student loan debt. Yes, thats 100K that is needing to [...]

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Summer Jobs For Students

May 25, 2010

If you are a parent and have students living in your home, then you are probably wondering what they can do all day. I have an idea, they can get a summer job. Many parents hate the idea of having their students get a job for the summer. There are plenty of summer jobs for students [...]

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