Try the following savings strategy in the new year and you’ll be glad that you did. This is one resolution you  might want to consider. Start by saving approximately $2.37/day through June 30th. If you average putting away this much money each day for the first 6 months, you’ll be very ...

Saving money at college is tough, but it’s definitely possible. Once you scraped together some money, where do you go from there? Luckily, there are many options available, including the beautiful thing called “Online Banking.” Why Online Banking? Higher interest rates. Online ban...

As if college wasn’t expensive and frustrating enough, students are forced to deal with the increasing cost of textbooks. Textbooks are overpriced and they become obsolete with every new edition that comes out. You shouldn’t have to deal with the battle of textbooks when you’re bat...

Wow. Spending money feels good. If you’re having a bad day, or haven’t spent money in a while, you tend to feel like splurging. The mere transaction of trading paper money for tangible (or intangible) goods has been proven to release endorphins in the brain. Music even has been proven t...

With a brand new of experience of college or graduate school beginning, one tends to feel liberated by their choice of living away at school. Along with the new sense of freedom also comes the duty of responsibility. This often goes overlooked when move-in day occurs and can lead to speed bumps ahea...

Planning for college shouldn’t be intimidating, even if you’ve started late. If you’re the type that needs to be scared into doing something, then let yourself get scared. It’s better to be too prepared than not prepared at all. The reality of saving for college is that the e...

The Retirement Guru says… One of the best ways to save money while in college is to limit your credit card debt and to budget your income and expenses. But there are more not-so-obvious ways to save money in college. One of the best way to save money is to live in an older house, that usually ...

The Retirement Guru says… you could buy textbooks at half price… International Editions. What are they? International Editions are just what they say they are. They are the editions of the textbooks that are designed to be sold internationally. To learn about how the textbook industry wo...

We’ve been asking college students for the piggy bank saving strategies that they had growing up or while still in college. We were surprised at the amount of students who actually used piggy banks. Here’s what they did… A friend of mine goes on vacation every year with his family....

Ever heard of the FDIC? That’s too bad. You see back during the Great Depression, banks lost a lot of money. People panicked and ran to the banks to take out their money. Banks lost even more money, and this processed repeated itself for awhile. Savings were being wiped out. It was ugly with a c...