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Living with credit
This week's resolution-filled round-up of the best personal finace blogs will help you learn how to give yourself a financial makeover and set important goals for yourself.
This week’s round-up is a smorgasbord of post-holiday tips and lessons and personal finance versions of holiday poems.
As the deadline for buying gifts for all your loved ones tiptoes closer, some of us need advice on surviving the mayhem more than ever.
This week's credit card crimes once again prove that the truth is often stranger than fiction. We've got a coroner's office employee who used a dead man's credit card at the local strip club, a cross-dressing purse snatcher and a con-artist who enjoyed the high life on his boyfriend's corporate card.
On this date in 1791, after much debate between America's founding fathers, The First Bank of the United States opened in Philadelphia, which helped build the U.S. economy. If only one bank could solve our problems today!
The experts say to pay cash for gifts this holiday season, but if you pay cash, you lose the purchase protection provided by credit cards if the item you buy is damaged or broken.
On this day in 1901, Walt Disney was born. In this week's credit card round-up, we celebrate Disney's hundreds of inspiring and heartwarming films that defined many of our childhoods.
In this week's round-up, we showcase blog posts around the Web that provide tips on saving money and avoiding debt on shopping.
It's World Television Day, so join us in Taking Charge's weekly credit card round-up, where we celebrate wonderful, entertaining, mind-numbing television.
I wake up pre-sun, before the birds and before the noise. The day is yawning and so am I. My hands run over my face and then my quiet eyes and then I'm staring at my unforgivingly bright monitor. I skim the news, visit Perez and watch a few hip-hop videos from the '90s. Then, resentfully, I type the necessary characters to go to my bank's Web site to check my credit card debt.
This week's blog round-up features educational posts that will help you with all things debt -- how to prevent it, how to get out of it, how it affects your credit score and even how to know when it's time to declare bankruptcy.
To celebrate powerful women and how far we have come, this roundup features posts from some of my favorite females in the personal finance blogosphere.
The 177th edition of the Carnival of Personal Finance has gone live, and the host was kind enough to include my ruminations about the Wall Street comeback of Randolph and Mortimer Duke.
Enjoy this freaky Friday Halloween Day round-up of the week's most haunting credit card blog posts.
What do you call a blog's first birthday? A blogiversary? A blirthday? Whatever it is, wish us a happy one. Taking Charge, the blog of the CreditCards.com editorial staff, published its first item a year ago today.
On this day in 1926, legendary magician Harry Houdini gave his final performance. Let's celebrate Mr. Houdini with this week's personal finance blog roundup!
On this day in 1931, Italian American mobster Al Capone, nicknamed Scarface, was finally pinched. Enjoy this week's Mafioso-themed round-up of the Top 10 personal finance blogs.
A quick hat tip to Lisa Spinelli at the Greener Pastures: Personal Finance for including my post, "The (not surprising) psychology behind minimum payments," on her Carnival of Personal Finance #174: The Columbus Day Edition.
Today marks Mario Lopez's 35th birthday. While the actor has played roles on "The Bold and the Beautiful" and "Pacific Blue," he will always be remembered best as the hunky jock A.C. Slater on "Saved by the Bell." In honor of Mario's birthday, this Friday's round-up celebrates that show, which is a favorite among those of us who grew up in the 1990s.
After 7 years of using a credit card, I finally meet my credit score. I was emotional to say the least, but there were no tears, only a realization that I should have checked this a long time ago.
I was a new fifth grader 13 years ago when the spectacular murder trial of O.J. Simpson ended. The Juice is back on trial again this week, with a slew of money problems that these top 10 personal finance blog items could address.
Classic holiday movie is worth watching for message about how banking and credit system works.
Citi’s rescue of Wachovia Bank this week raises questions about rewards points and what lies ahead for me and other Wachovia card users.
The Advertising Council and U.S. Treasury Department have launched a new campaign aimed at educating young adults about the need for good credit. The campaign features a new interactive game. Play it and tell us what you think.
No cable, no landline, no problem. No frills lifestyle isn't poverty, but frugality.
When it comes to ridding your credit report of inaccurate items, I recently learned the hard way that if you want it done right, you've got to do it yourself.
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