personal finance
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Should You Keep That Document or Shred It?
We all get a ton of junk in the mail, whether debit card applications, insurance papers or a 60-page retirement fund report from a job you had 10 years ago. Thankfully, deciding what you need to keep and what you can safely shred is simple. And depending the type of documents you’re dealing with, you…
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Do You Need a Financial Therapist?
There’s a growing push for more financial literacy in schools, but one of the barriers to financial stability or growing wealth may have nothing to do with knowledge. In fact, some money problems may stem from past trauma or beliefs from childhood. These beliefs — which financial psychology pioneers Drs. Ted and Brad Klontz call…
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This Is How Much Money You Need to Save By Every Age to Retire Happily
How much to have saved by every age is a perennial personal finance question, right up there with how to create a budget and how to start investing. But like most money-related decisions, there’s unfortunately no single magic number that’s going to apply to each person. Fidelity suggests having your yearly income saved at 30,…
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Where To Put This Year’s Holiday Budget
I don’t know about you, but I began saving money for my summer holiday in January. In fact, I have budget line items for two separate trips: One to see friends, and one to see family.