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The Biggest Financial Mistakes to Avoid in Your 20s

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A turbulent housing market: 2023 was the most expensive home-buying year in a decade. In the long run, this ignorance is bliss mentality only leads to more problems, whether it’s mounting credit card debt or puny retirement funds. He recommends identifying monthly core expenses and then identifying discretionary spending. “If

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30 New Year’s Resolution Ideas to Make 2024 Healthier, Happier & More Secure

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Calculate your monthly income, track your spending, determine your goals and priorities and develop a plan to manage your expenses. Save more for retirement. Increase contributions to retirement accounts such as your 401(k) or IRA. Limit money habits that can leave you broke such as expensive dining or luxury items.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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In the two years since accomplishing that goal, I have gone on to start a multi-seven figure business; attracted a social media audience of more than 3 million; hosted the No. In today’s society, if you are not actively investing in the stock market, chances are you will not be able to retire. Plan for retirement.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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A Rise in Independent Workers Highlights Trends and Concerns Facing the Gig Economy

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Shifts in the gig economy One trend Espinal sees happening in today’s gig economy is a move to the increasingly popular fields of content creation and marketing to fill spaces like copywriting, newsletters and social media.

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Housesitting, Pet-Sitting and Work Exchange Programs Help People Travel on a Budget

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This allows pet parents to travel without having to worry about their furry friends at home, and it allows pet sitters to stay in a new place without lodging expenses. Bernadine Swale joined TrustedHousesitters after her divorce and retirement, as she was looking for a way to live like a local in another country while limiting expenses. “As

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