I’m almost 40 and according to the wisdom found everywhere on the internet, I don’t have enough saved for retirement. Which worries me because I’ve been saving for as long as I’ve had a proper job with access to a retirement vehicle. But also because the internet wisdom doesn’t make sense or sound feasible....
I used to be big fans of Credit Karma and TrueBill but both have sold out to companies I really dislike (essentially the Intuit family of companies). I really dislike Intuit lobbying the US government to keep taxes complicated as well as their mediocre software....
First time poster! Outside of my retirement account provided by work, I’m just beginning to get brave enough to move other money around. I’m very late to the game and pretty scared of gambles....
My partner recently started a new job. Prior to her employment I had been paying into my employer personal supplemental insurance as well as spousal insurance. Now that my partner has employer provided and options for employer supplemental life insurance, what should we be looking at doing? Do I stop my spousal life insurance?...
As the title mentions, the company I work at is offering free shares when buying back some of the company’s shares, as well as a discount, depending on the amount of shares purchased....
So for our kids, who are still quite young, instead of opening an entire other savings account for them, we decided to do “virtual” savings accounts....
Comingle is an interesting idea that would act as a pseudo emergency fund to provide a stable week to week income for their users. It could act to stabilize your income if you have an irregular income or as an backup plan or insurance for when you lose a job or income source. It works by distributing the average of all their...
Me and my wife are in our 40s, and currently in good health. I get insurance through work, but it’s a high deductible plan. I have enough in my health savings account to cover the out of pocket maximum for a few years....
Is it safe to treat stocks and ETFs in my brokerage account as savings and emergency funds as long as I have a significant number of lots with a Stop Loss or Stop Limit Order in place? My Savings Account technically doesn’t cover 3 months of expense, but combined with my brokerage account it does. Is it safe to be have 1 month...
I’ve been using You Need a Budget for family budgeting and I like it but it is expensive. I’ve played with Buckets a little bit and looks like a contender. Anyone move from YNAB to Buckets?
Home prices weakened month to month, according to Black Knight. While still gaining, which they usually do at this time of year, the gains fell below their 25-year average. This after significantly outdoing their historical averages from February through June. It’s a signal that a slowdown in prices may be underway again....
Interest will start accruing again on September 1, after rates were effectively set to 0% since March 2020 for federal student loans. Now, interest rates, which are fixed and vary by loan, will return to the same rate they were before the freeze....
I’m a long time PocketSmith user currently switching to Quicken. PocketSmith is a decent product but has some glaring issues that don’t seem to be on their radar and I feel like my finances have honestly become too complex for PocketSmith’s simplistic philosophy....
I recently started giving plain text accounting a go. For a long time I did not do any accounting, as my income was high enough to get by perfectly fine, but recently I wanted to get a lot more control over my personal finance in order to easier achieve more long term financial goals....