Control your Spending today

After the month is over did you have any money left over after you paid your bills or did you need to add more to your credit card balance? How do you control your spending so you are able to save or pay towards getting your debt paid off? The news on TV and in the paper still seems to be getting worst. We hear some good news but the negative news out weighs it.

Money Blunders this Christmas

It is Christmas time and we are all seeing all the commercials on sales and gift giving ideas. We get ad’s in the mail and in the newspaper. We turn the radio on and all we hear is about Christmas gift ideas. It is so easy to get caught up in the excitement of the holiday and to forget that you have a budget you should stick with. We want to see smiles on people we care about faces. I know for myself I think about the people I still have left to buy for. Even after I have bought what I wanted to buy someone I find more things I want to give them. I saw the below article the other day and thought it would be helpful to let others know about. It says: