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Don’t Trash Your Old Cell Phone

With technology evolving at such unprecedented rates in the modern world, the question many consumers have today is what to do with their old stuff.  Many people simply decide that their old laptop or cell phone is junk and toss it into their household garbage.  While...

What to Look For in a Cheap Used Car

As a university student, owning a car is an expensive proposition. It can add several thousand dollars per year in expenses to an already tightly stretched budget. If you can buy a cheap used car – as in cheap, but reliable – you can cut that expense substantially....

Where Should You Cut Money?

In the current economic climate, everyone is looking for ways to cut money out of their budgets. The difficult part when budgeting is to know which areas you can cut without feeling the pinch too severely. If you are looking to save money, follow these tips to create...

5 Good Money Habits for New Graduates

Why should we be talking about good money habits even though you’re still in school? Because the time to learn them is before you need to. Good money habits are like goods nutritional and fitness habits – the earlier in life you learn them and put them into practice,...

Using Thrift Stores to Expand Your Wardrobe

If you are a student living on a tight budget you may be able to expand your wardrobe by shopping in thrift stores. You can buy a wide variety of clothing for very little money, and that might enable you to buy more of it. The clothing isn't in bad condition either,...

Six Online Shopping Safety Tips

Many of us have become pretty comfortable shopping online. That's good because it enables us to save money and it also shows that we’re embracing technological change. At the same time, that comfort level can also expose us to identity theft and security breaches that...

Spending Money On Campus Food

We all know we shouldn’t do it and yet we still do.  We’ve seen the people on TV say that this is how they got into debt and we read the “Top 10 Tips For Getting Out of Debt” column that says not to do it – but we still do.  It’s just that it’s so easy not to make...