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Budget Planner
Have More Budgeting Fails Than Successes? Try Budgeting by Paycheck
The budget-by-paycheck method combines three different budgeting strategies into one comprehensive system.
Apr 18, 2026
Retirement
Become a Local Tour Guide: 4 Websites That Connect You With Tourists
Want to help visitors to your city have a good time and make some money too? Sign up as a local tour guide through a peer-to-peer platform like Vayable or ToursByLocals. Here’s how to get started and find tour guide jobs.
Apr 4, 2026
Banking & Credit
Annual Fees Over $500? Here's When They Make Sense
Once you get past the sticker shock, you might have good reasons to carry a credit card with an annual fee of $500 or more.
Apr 4, 2026
Insurance
Why Is Health Insurance So Expensive? Why Premiums Are Rising and What You Can Do
Health insurance is becoming harder and harder for the average American to afford. Health insurance premiums are rising because the cost of medical care itself also is rising. Different stakeholders share the weight of health care costs, whether it’s the government, your employer or you – the patient. Right now, more of those increasing costs...
Apr 18, 2026
Insurance
Medicare Vision Coverage: How to Save Money on Eyeglasses and Exams
You’re enrolled in Medicare, and you need to go to your routine optometrist check-up. But then you discover that, actually, routine vision care isn’t guaranteed. Yes, the vast majority — about 90%, according to Fierce Healthcare — of Medicare Advantage enrollees have access to vision, dental or hearing care. Many have coverage for both eye...
Apr 18, 2026
Investing
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Apr 18, 2026
Insurance
How Much Car Insurance Do I Need? Policy Types and More
“Do I need car insurance?” That’s an easy “yes," whether because of state law or just financial protection. “How much car insurance do I need?” That can be trickier to answer. Do I Really Need Car Insurance? Car insurance, like health and life insurance, is necessary to ensure you can cover costs from small inconveniences...
Apr 18, 2026
Debt Management
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Dave Schafer has been writing professionally for nearly a decade. In that time, he’s covered a variety of topics ranging from personal finance to software and consumer tech, with the goal of helping readers make smarter decisions about the products and services they trust. When he’s not hunched over his keyboard, he can be found playing guitar or camping in the mountains with his family.
Apr 18, 2026
Insurance
What is the Aflac Duck Selling? Supplemental Insurance Explained
With lovable mascots and catchy slogans, companies that sell supplemental insurance say they help you pay for the things your health insurance won’t. According to Aflac, one of the nation’s largest supplemental insurance providers, health insurance pays for about 60% of medical costs, leaving you to pay the remaining 40%. How do you fill those...
Apr 18, 2026
Debt Management
What Does ‘No Credit Score’ Mean & How to Get a Credit Score
You probably feel good if you’ve avoided debt so far — no loans or credit card bills dragging you down each month. Good job! But when you check your credit score… there’s nothing there. Here’s why you don’t have a credit score — and steps you can take to build an impressive score from the...
Apr 4, 2026
Debt Management
9 Tips To Get Your Holiday Shopping Done Quick and Cheap
Disney World vacations are notoriously expensive family getaways. But not everything has to cost a fortune. We found seven Disney freebies to help you stretch your budget!
Apr 4, 2026
Investing
Here Are 4 Ways 2023 Will Try to Rip You Off (and How to Fight Back)
Watch out for your wallet in 2022. Here’s how 2022 will try to rip you off — and how you can fight back.
Apr 4, 2026