Having poor organizational skills can impact more than your productivity. John from MightyBargainHunter.com gives sixteen ways that disorganization can hurt your finances. Some highlights from this list include: Missed rebates Dining out Missed tax deductions Susceptibility of sales pitches Sixteen ways being disorganized costs you money – [MightyBargainHunter.com]…

Credit Advisor mentions some myths and perceptions could hold you back from being rich. They may set you off to the wrong course. You may have the wrong focus because of them. Take a look their 25 finance myths and positive about how you manage your finance. Here are couple of good ones: 4. Those with…

The blog of AU interactive features their recommendation on how to get cheapest flight every time. The key take-home point is that you have to check multiple websites (aggregators, booking engines, and individual airline websites) to get the lowest airfare, as the price fluctuates frequently with variables: There are basically three types of airfare websites: 1…

CNNMoney has featured a great slideshow on how to avoid fees for budget seekers. It covers from travel, phone, banking, credit cards, real estate and investments. For me, travel is probably the one that have a lot of hidden fees and outrageous fees – tips on avoiding fees on hotel is pretty useful: Yet predicting what…

Sometimes you feel lucky if the flight is overbooked and you are bumped to next available flight. Why? Usually you will get a free hotel or free flight voucher to compensate for the inconvenience. Did you know that airlines regularly overbook their flights on purpose? It’s all a numbers game, and perfectly legal. They know that…

Have you just started your career? What is your investment plan? Do you find it difficult on setting your investment plan to build your wealth? Fortune shows you 10 simple rules for building wealth. The rules has a focus in stock trading and more into urging every to start early and invest heavily. Start early Use your…

Yan Bezugliy at ProBargainHunter.com recommends an effective way to find clearance at Amazon. It is as easy as adding &pct-off=percent at the end of the amazon URL, where percent can be a number to get exact discount % (like &pct-off=60-), or a range (like &pct-off=50-70): You can easily customize the link by changing the department (which…

Flexo, an anonymous blogger at Consumerism Commentary, has an interesting piece on how to be a CFO of his life. He treats and puts his finance in term of running a business. Not only running a business – he puts it as a publicly traded business by publishing his financial reports online – all…

J.D. at Get Rich Slowlyfound a great story on a dad teaching his kid the value of money. There are reason behind all those overspending by teenagers or young adult with their credit cards – they do not know the actual value of money. Training them in the young age on how to use the…

School do not teach you anything on personal finance. In usual ways, you have to learn it from the hard way, or look for a person who can give you some advices. Looks no further for some quick tips. The Blog Your Credit Advisor introduces 102 rules that can get your financial to the right…

If you have some doubts on what is mortgage and what are all those jargons, make sure to check out BBC News on a basic guide to get started. It has some quick terms explaination, and also top 10 key points you should enquiry about when agreeing a motgage with a lender: Mortgages should be straightforward…

We live in world full of pressures to conform: to believe what others tell us is true, to toe the line, to accept the values of those in positions of power, and to follow conventional, approved paths. That’s the way to get on in life and business, we are told. You need to fit in…

Another long finance post surfaces recently is called 46 Things I Wish My Mom Taught Me About Money by Lisa Laprade. She lists 46 things she wished to know about earlier in her life. The areas spread into different areas such as buying a house, credit & debt, education, general spending, health, insurance, investment, life…

Run out of idea to save money? Maybe you should get some idea from the list that has 88 tips on how to save money. OSA Watch has compiled a huge list – there must be some items that suit your need: If my previous posts about saving money weren’t enough for you, I’ve compiled a…

Getting scholarship may not be the full answer for paying your college fees. Financially balance and management is the key to make through the time in college. Spend what you can, spend what is needed. Scholarships Around The US gives 117 whooping ways for student to pay for College. You may find at least couple…