How much do you spend on clothes? And more importantly, how much can you afford to spend on clothes? We all wish we had unlimited shopping funds, but savvy shoppers and financial experts agree on one thing: there's nothing fashionable about being neck-deep in debt. The good news is that you can get good bargains and even splurge on that high quality leather bag that you know … [Read more...] about How much should you spend on clothes?
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What receipts should you keep?
We buy something, we keep the receipt. It's a habit, fed by this niggling fear that 'I might just need this someday.' So the receipts multiply, infesting our pockets, bags, drawers. If we're particularly organized we may have them all in a shoebox, ignored till tax time. The problem is that too many receipts take up space, and make it really hard to find the ones that we … [Read more...] about What receipts should you keep?
How to Deal with Bank Errors
Because banks handle other people's money, you can expect that these financial institutions practice an extremely high level of accuracy. But even with an institution that is a stickler for doing things the right and proper way, errors still occur because, really, there's no perfect system in the world. Bank errors will happen and it is an unfortunate luck of the draw if … [Read more...] about How to Deal with Bank Errors