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What To Do About Your Holiday Credit Card Debt

January 11, 2010 By Chelsea 2 Comments

110984614737Sure was fun buying the gifts. Paying them off now that the credit card bill has arrived? Not so much. Breezy Mama turned to Jerrold Mundis, a financial therapist and author of the bestselling book How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously for help. Plus! His tips on steps to take to keep your family spending in-line (ahem).

All right – we overspent on the holidays and are getting the credit card bills – now what? In other words, what’s your advice for paying off the bills?

Make paying them off a priority. Especially if you [Read more…] about What To Do About Your Holiday Credit Card Debt

Filed Under: Finance, Mother Health Fitness Beauty Tagged With: and Live Prosperously, Credit Card Debt, family budgeting, financial therapist, holiday spending, How to Get Out of Debt, Jerrold Mundis, Stay Out of Debt

10 Cheap Date Nights

July 31, 2009 By Chelsea 7 Comments

drinksAhhhh… date night! It’s the end all, be all in our household. Nothing like a romantic reminder of how it all began and a refreshing way to keep the passion alive. And, with a little creativity in the finance department, you’ll see that all you need is love to make your time alone together great. Plus – tips to save on sitters!

10. Make it a Home Sweet Home First
Eat your meal before you head out, then leave for an after dinner drink or head to a [Read more…] about 10 Cheap Date Nights

Filed Under: Finance, How to Parent Tips Tagged With: baby sitter, cheap, date night, parents, romance, save

Minivan Madness

July 3, 2009 By Chelsea 15 Comments

gladden_fordSimilar to Fight Club, I’m convinced that the first rule of Minivan Club is to swear to all that you love yours. Pretty much everyone I know hated having to buy one, but then can’t stop singing its praises. Nonetheless, even with three kids, I have still managed to hold off after writing the following article about minivans for Geezeo.com a year ago. Are you going to convince me otherwise?

It’s time to hammer the last nail into my proverbial youth coffin: purchasing a minivan. Baby number three arrives in a month and my current Ford Escape won’t accommodate a trio of car seats. My non-minivan driving friends and brothers are appalled, but [Read more…] about Minivan Madness

Filed Under: Finance Tagged With: Ford, geezeo, minivan

Things To Do With Your Kids For Free (Yes, Free!)

June 19, 2009 By Chelsea 7 Comments

hikingListen, I’m not the crafternoon type whatsoever. And if the hubby and I don’t get the kids out of the house after two or so hours (or at least figure out something for them to do), mayhem ensues. Therefore, per Breezy Mama Alysha’s request, here are some of the activities we do to [Read more…] about Things To Do With Your Kids For Free (Yes, Free!)

Filed Under: Finance, How to Parent Tips Tagged With: entertainment, Free activities, inexpensive, kids

How to Save More, Automatically

June 12, 2009 By Chelsea Leave a Comment

jgs_babybottleFinance at a glance contributed by Geezeo

by Althea Chang | MainStreet.com

You know you should, but it’s difficult to feed the piggy bank every time you get paid. Luckily, new bank accounts and the power of automatic savings plans may make it easier. And every little bit counts, after all.

Simple Savings
“Saving is a whole lot simpler when you don’t have to think about it,” says a Bank of America marketing campaign  for its Keep the Change program. With every purchase you make with your Bank of America check card, your purchase amount is rounded up to the nearest dollar, and the difference is deposited into a savings account. Bank of America also says it will match your savings for the first three months after you enroll in the program and match 5% per year after that, up to $250.

If you have a Wachovia checking account, you can open a Way2Save account. Each time you make a purchase with your check card, pay a bill online or set up an automatic debit from your checking account, $1 will be transferred from your checking account to your Way2Save account, which gets a guaranteed APY of 5% for the first year, plus they’ll add on 5% of the amount you’ve saved. You can also set up automatic transfers of up to $100 a month, from your checking account to your Way2Save account.

Of course, many banks let you set up automatic transfers from [Read more…] about How to Save More, Automatically

Filed Under: Finance Tagged With: Bank account, Bank of America, Credit card, Financial Services, Keep the Change, Overdraft, Savings account, Transactional account

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