It might be hard to think back on that very first credit card you got. For many, that was where our credit histories began – but what, exactly, does the perfect credit card look like?
Whether you are a novice or long-time credit-card user, it helps to understand the fine print and shop with some regulations.
First [...]
Once upon a time, there lived a handsome young prince who fell in love with a poor peasant girl. But he left her and married a rich princess instead because she had serious bank. And they lived happily ever after….
Not quite the traditional fairy tale, but a survey released by Prince & Associates points to [...]
When I was little, I always had holes in my jeans. Not because I wanted to look cool, but because that’s what happens when you constantly trip over things and fall down: I was a clumsy kid, not to be trusted around anything remotely breakable. Naturally, I became very familiar with the phrase “be careful [...]
I can imagine a world without money…right up to the point where I picture walking into the movie store and just walking away with their DVD’s. Currency will always exist, because we can’t realistically live without cash, dough, dinero, moolah. Like Eskimos and their infinite colloquial terms for snow, our mouthful of monetary phrases hints [...]
Every semester, I pay a visit to the NYU bookstore, where they proceed to rob me blind in return for textbooks. I come out of the store penniless and, like a mule, I lug my books back to my dorm, where most of them sit untouched and gathering dust for the rest of the semester. [...]
Imagine that you are planning to purchase an item for $10. The ever-popular titanium spork, for example. Then you find out that by going an extra five blocks out of your way, you can get it for half price. Would you walk five blocks to get $5 off a $10 item?
New purchase. [...]
Welcome to Good to Grow! We’ve been planning this for over a year now, but we’ve had another little project we’ve been working on that’s kept us busy.
Over the coming weeks and months we’ll be talking about everything from saving to debt to how the current state of the economy will affect you ( ’cause [...]
This post was written by Anna Sowa, Contributing Writer on October 5, 2009 
