Who spends more in a marriage, the husband or wife?

I use to think that women spent more. But this may not be true.

Men don’t shop as often as women do, but when men shop, they buy big ticket items. I feel that most men generally don’t [...]

Dave Ramsey baby step 3: Fully funded emergency fund

Dave Ramsey’s baby steps are a great plan to follow for most anyone. Baby step 1 is covered here, and you can read about baby step 2 by clicking here. You can see all of the steps on [...]

Five Creative Tips for Dumping Debt

Would you love to tackle your debt, but just don’t see money in your budget?  It is time to think outside the box and become creative.

These ideas should help:

1. Use your tax refund.

How much refund [...]

Good debt and bad debt

Good debt. Bad debt. What does this mean? Is there such a thing as good debt?

One site I found says that good debt creates value; for example, student loans, real-estate loans, mortgages, business loans. It describes bad [...]

The next best thing to debtors prison

Debtors prison is a thing of the past. But we have something that is pretty much the same thing.

The changes Congress passed in 2005 to the bankruptcy laws.

The 2005 laws benefit the credit card companies [...]

$555,000 in student loan debt

Saw this posted at kickdebtoff.com. I don’t know how this woman sleeps at night with all this debt!

the full article is here

She’s now a doctor. Perhaps she can make enough money to quickly pay this back. [...]

3 personal traits that lead to excessive debt

Why do most people take on so much debt and get in big trouble financially?

Three reasons.

All three of these described me perfectly. What about you?

Ignorance. This does not mean being stupid. It means lack of [...]

Have lots of debt to pay off? Do not give up

Are you trying to become debt free? Have you been at if for some time?

Don’t lose hope. Do not give up. Getting into debt took a long time, and getting out won’t happen overnight. I’ve been [...]

12 warning signs of serious debt problems

Here are some warning signs that you have serious debt problems, or you may soon have them.

Unpaid bills from last month. This months bills are here and you realize you still have bills from last month [...]

Everyone should see Maxed out

http://maxedoutmovie.com/clips/trailer.html

All about the credit card industry, collectors, how the credit card industry is set up to make them rich at our expense.

Some stats from the movie, which was made in 2006

Average US household has $9,205 [...]