RSSArchive for August, 2011

How to Get Through a Stock Market Crash

How to Get Through a Stock Market Crash

Should You Sell Your Stocks in This Market? Another year, and another stock market crash. It may seem that in recent years the volatility of the market gives us more sharp rises and subsequent crashes, but in the end these market cycles have played out for decades to varying degrees. Every crash has its catalyst, [...]

How to Keep Your Vacation Costs Down

How to Keep Your Vacation Costs Down

You know what it feels like to return from vacation. You feel rested, rejuvenated, even eager to get back to your old routine and to see your friends and co-workers once again. That’s why it’s so important to take time off and see a part of the world that you never visited before. It gives [...]

2011 Sales Tax Holiday Schedule

2011 Sales Tax Holiday Schedule

Sales tax is just one of those expenses we typically ignore. Every time we make a purchase the tax is just automatically added to the bill and since there’s nothing we can do about it’s easy to just forget about it or automatically factor it in. Plus, since often times we make just small purchases, [...]

Prepare for Your Next Financial Crisis

Prepare for Your Next Financial Crisis

With constant talk of the debt ceiling and a possible double-dip recession, I thought it would be applicable to talk a little about personal finance crisis events in our personal lives and what we can do about it.  Like any other American, bad things happen to us.  Most of the time we’re not prepared.  What [...]