What Do You Think About This Suggestion About How To Reduce The Number Of Home Foreclosures?
The woman in this video is suggesting an interesting solution to the sky-rocketing foreclosure rate and declining home equity most of us are experiencing. I’d like to hear your comments about her proposal!
I can see pros and cons to her suggestion. Of course, if you follow my blog at all you know that I DO [...]
How To Pay Off Your Holiday Debts
I found the first 5 suggestions on my bank’s website, www.USAA.com. The 6th suggestion is mine.
“If you overspent during the holidays, use these ideas to help you lower your debt quickly and potentially avoid repeating the same mistakes this year.
1. Tighten the Reins
Start tracking your expenses, line by line, to see exactly where your money’s [...]
Another Really Good Reason to Pay Off Your Mortgage Early
I’ve known a woman for several years now who is a College-Funding consultant. She was in my BNI group, and virtually every week she would mention something in her “infomercial” about the government FASSA form (at least that’s what I thought she called it - turns out its a FAFSA form). My son is only [...]
Start Educating Your Kids about Money Now!
Darren Hardy, the publisher of Success magazine, has a great blog post with 6 constructive ideas about how to teach your kids about money and how to handle it.
Why teach them about this topic? Well, do you really want your kids to handle thier money the way you/we’ve handled your/our money? Personally, I want my [...]
To Pay Off or Not To Pay Off Your Mortgage - a question on many people’s minds
As the stock market continues to decline, savings account & CD interest rates are disgustingly low, and the lending market becomes increasingly tighter, many people are wondering where they will reap the greatest return on and benefit from any money they may have to invest.
Elizabeth Razzi, a writer for the Washington Post, suggests that first, [...]
Pay off your debts - consumer and/or mortgage - in record time
If there were a way to use your currently available financial resources to ultimately pay off your debts and/or mortgage(s) in as little as half to a third of the time, and save lots of money in interest charges, would you want to hear about it? Of course you would - who wants to [...]
Home Equity Line of Credit frozen, but no problem
My husband and I have been using the Money Merge Account program for 9 months now. When we started, we had 25 years left to pay on our mortgage (the balance at the time was about $116,500), plus about $50,000 in credit card debt (ouch!). By following the innovative money management strategies as well as [...]
Credit Card Rewards Programs
I’m interested in researching the details of the various Rewards programs that are offered by credit card companies. This became a topic of interest to me recently when I received notice that my husband’s Citi card had a new Rewards program (called Extra Cash from Citi) and that we had about $500 of “Extra Cash”. [...]
Free Vacation!
We just got back from a lovely long weekend trip to Massanutten, Virginia. We had a great time - the weather was beautiful, fall foliage was just starting to come in, we had several marathon ping-pong tournaments and rummy games and Ryan and Jim had a blast (twice) at the extremely “beastly” (new teenage slang [...]
Welcome to Mrs.MoneyMerge.com
This is a blog about money - yours, mine, our kid’s, our parent’s - not the general state of the economy. I strongly believe that as we each get our “own houses in order” we will start a ripple effect which will have a hugely positive impact on the economy of our country and ultimately [...]
