Holiday budget

5 great tips for creating a holiday budget

Kids get older and families get bigger, but your holiday budget can’t keep up with the growing demands. According to the American Research Group, Americans plan to spend an average of $983 on gifts alone during the 2017 holiday season. That’s up 6% from 2016 and an increase of nearly $400 from 20 years ago. …

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Trying to decide between the Amex EveryDay vs Amex EveryDay Preferred?

Amex EveryDay vs. Amex EveryDay Preferred: How to choose

In the rewards points card category, American Express offers the Amex EveryDay Credit Card and the Amex EveryDay Preferred Credit Card. The main difference between the two cards is that the Amex EveryDay Preferred has a more generous reward points program, but it comes with an annual fee.  …

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Piggy bank, how to save money without noticing

How to save money without even noticing

Spending can quickly spiral out of control. That’s the power of high-limit credit cards and zero-interest payment plans on personal loans. Before you know it, you have a house full of new furniture and ticket stubs from over a dozen concerts. While it was all worth it at the time, you weren’t thinking about how to save money.

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Minimum payment

Credit card basics: Pay over the monthly minimum payment

Americans are drowning in credit card debt. The average U.S. household owes more than $15,000 on their cards, according to Debt.org. Because of this large amount of debt, millions of credit card borrowers barely scrape up enough cash each month to make the monthly minimum payment. …

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Here's what to do after a data breach.

Infographic: What to do after a data breach

The reported number of data breaches keeps rising, impacting more individuals on a daily basis. In fact, there have now been over 8,000 data breaches since January 2005, with over 1.05 billion records exposed, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. If you’ve been a victim of a recent data breach, you’re certainly just one among many.  …

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