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Get a $150 Bonus and 1.5% Cash Back When You Swipe This Card

If you’re not using a rewards credit card for everyday purchases, you’re missing out on free money. You just have to be sure you don’t get too carried away with those purchases — and that the...

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How Some People Make Up to $1,500/Week Driving With Lyft

Are you looking for a flexible way to make extra money? Something you can do even though you have other responsibilities, like a full-time job or raising kids? Try driving with Lyft. Being a driver...

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Would You Let This Company Pay Off Your Student Loans?

Student loans are quietly crushing so many of us. Americans collectively have an enormous $1.5 trillion in student debt, according to the Federal Reserve. Borrowers with education debt typically owe...

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How This Woman Cut Her Mortgage Payment in Half and Saved $525/Month

In 2005, Melinda Smieja was spiraling into credit card debt. With a 13-year-old daughter undergoing treatment for a brain tumor, an 8-year-old daughter at home and her only income from disability, she...

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How This Woman Paid Off $26K in Debt in Under 3 Years on a Single Income

Kayla Higginbotham was chatting with a friend around Christmas of 2015 about how she made the minimum payment of about $300 on her student loans every month, yet never seemed to make headway on the...

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My Controlling Ex-Husband Wrecked My Credit. How Do I Rebuild?

Dear C., After all you’ve been through, I’m sure this news from the bank felt like yet another gut punch. But I want you to know that the worst of this is over. It’s all on the mend from here....

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5 Strategies That’ll Help You Beat Uber’s Surge Pricing on New Year’s Eve

After the ball drops and the bubbly pops to ring in the new year, the last thing you want to think about is how you’re getting home. But New Year’s Eve is notorious for auto accidents, and about...

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4 Common Obstacles to Making a Useful Budget — and How You Can Beat Them

Like New Year’s resolutions and fad diets, budgets seem destined for failure. How are you supposed to allocate every dollar of every paycheck without hiccups or unexpected expenses? Can you stick to...

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5 Ways You Can Save $1,378 in 2019 (Even if You’re Awful at Saving Money)

The blank slate of a new year is something I always look forward to as January approaches. It doesn’t matter what happened in the past. The new year is a time to set yourself off on the right foot....

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The Financial Movement for Anyone Who’s Sick of Working 9 to 5

The typical road to retirement looks like this: Graduate college. Get a job. Get promoted. Get raises. Buy a house. Fill it with stuff. Work for at least 40 years to pay for the stuff. Then you retire...

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Catch a Lyft to Everest: How a Chance Meeting Turned into a Trekking Company

Ever since reading Jon Krakauer’s “Into Thin Air” about a 1996 Mount Everest disaster, Mark Johnson and his wife Holly had been interested in making the Everest Base Camp trek in Nepal, despite...

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The Perfect Weekend Getaway? It Might Just Be Puerto Rico

When you’re wandering around Old San Juan, you’ll feel worlds away from the United States. Quaint cobblestone streets. Murmurs of Spanish. Centuries-old fortresses. But the capital of Puerto Rico...

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How to Buy Used Furniture — With No Regrets

Furnishing your new home can be fun and creative… but it can also cost a pretty penny. And that extra expenditure is especially intimidating if you’re a young adult or college student just moving...

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A Job Shouldn’t Rule Your Life. Here’s How to Find Fulfillment Outside Work

Throughout history, our sources of purpose have shifted. First, our purpose was simply to survive. Then we built families and embraced religion. But now, we increasingly look to our jobs as a source...

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Are Model Year-End Car Sales Really a Good Deal?

If you’ve turned on a TV during the last few months of the year, you’ve probably seen ads from your local car dealerships touting the huge savings you can get with their model year-end sales. But...

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This Is What Happens When You Become Debt-Free at a Heart-Wrenching Cost

When it comes to getting a large financial windfall from a relative, you hope it’s from a long-lost uncle you’ve never heard of. Unfortunately, it rarely happens that way. Most of the time, the...

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This California Couple Made $37K Renting out RVs This Year Through This Website

Patrick Atherton has been around mobile homes and RVs his whole life. As a teen, he worked alongside his stepdad repairing units. This passion for motorhomes has seeped into his adulthood. In 2008,...

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It’s ‘Game Over’ for Your Money Woes — Turn Your Used Games into Quick Cash

I grew up using computers. When I was 6 years old, I was introduced to Prince of Persia on the iMac, which sparked a lifelong video game hobby. I never looked back. Over the years, I’ve accrued tons...

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Sign Up for Credit Sesame and Get $50K in Identity Theft Insurance for Free

It happens more often than you might think — nearly 3 million times a year. We’re talking about identity theft — when someone hijacks your name for their own purposes. All fraudsters need is your...

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Download Digit and Get a 1% Bonus on Your Savings Every 3 Months

Saving money is tough. So what if you could do it in a way where you wouldn’t even notice? Digit makes that possible. This innovative app automates saving for you. Simply link it to your checking...

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