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How to Get Back on Your Feet After Bankruptcy

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Getting back on your feet after bankruptcy is really a test of will. Discharging your debts probably left you emotionally and financially drained, but somewhere inside you need to find the will to pick yourself ...

Tips for Camping With Your Kids

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Doing anything with your kids is always going to be a bit more complicated than it was before. These tips for camping with your kids should help you plan a great trip for everybody. Try ...

Life Before and After Bankruptcy

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Your life before bankruptcy and after bankruptcy will be very different--even if you had credit problems before. While a lot of marks on your report will look bad to professionals looking over your report, there ...

Necessities to Pack For Camping

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

While you don't want to bring along a whole truck load of stuff that you'll have to deal with packing and unpacking and carrying around the whole trip, you also don't want to be without ...

How to Clean a Hardwood Floor

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

If you have some nice new floors put in the last thing you want to do is ruin them. Certainly at some point they're going to get a scratch or two (which will be a ...

Tips on How to Recover From Personal Bankruptcy

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

There are two sides to recovering--the emotional and financial--and these are tips on how to recover from personal bankruptcy in both arenas. While it's important to jump on improving your finances immediately after discharging your ...

Cons of Filing For Bankruptcy

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

The cons of filing for bankruptcy are many and long. There are of course positives to doing this, but the negative list is quite intimidating. The first thing is that it will stay on your ...

Time to Start Thinking About Retirement

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

The time to start thinking about retirement is always today, right now, right this second. The sooner you start saving and investing the more time your savings have to grow and become what you'll need ...

Traditional Vs Roth IRA - Which is Better For Low - Income Earners?

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Deciding between a traditional and Roth IRA can be a hard, and individual, decision. To look at a particular situation we can try to answer the question-which is better for low income earners? The thing ...

How the Debt Consolidation Process Works

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

It's a big term that you'll see a lot once you start researching how to get rid of your build up of bills, but what exactly does it mean; how does the debt consolidation process ...

How the 401k Tax Deduction Works

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

The first thing to understand about how the 401k tax deduction works is that it's not actually a "deduction". While this is a very important thing to understand, you'll have to back up a bit ...

Getting a Loan After Bankruptcy

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Getting a loan after bankruptcy is, of course, difficult, but as long as you accept that up front you can move forward deciding how to work through that situation, and even try to make doing ...

Unsecured Loan Bankruptcy

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

The hardest financial goal I can think of is an unsecured loan bankruptcy. There is hope though, you can work toward this, but you are going to need some time. If you just got everything ...

3 Essential Items for Your First Home

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

When you first move into your new home it can be pretty overwhelming. What do you do first? How do you make this space, yours? What do you need for it all to be functional, ...

How Does Bad Credit Effect My Chances of Getting a Loan

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Having bad credit certainly has an effect on your chances of getting a loan. Of course, there are degrees of bad credit. Depending on your situation it may be possible to do other things to ...

Bad Credit Car Loans - Using a Cosigner

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

When you have a lot of negative financial history getting auto financing can be a very difficult task. Getting bad credit car loans and using a cosigner can make things a lot easier for you, ...

6 Things to Bring with You to Make Camping More Luxurious

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

1 -- Spices! And other nice food. Camping doesn't have to be hot dogs over the fire (though this is fun, too). You can get a cooking stove, bring some nice spices, and some nicer ...

10 Benefits of Having a 401K

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

1 -- The employer contribution match is a huge benefit of having a 401k that is unique to this savings option. Your employer will offer to match your contributions (up to a certain percentage of ...

Is Student Loan Debt Consolidation a Good Idea?

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

Student loan debt consolidation can be a very good idea, in fact there are many ways this can work out to the great advantage of the borrower. There is a key difference in how you ...

How to Prepare For Retirement - The Necessary Preparations

By Jennifer Quilter · 13 years ago

How to prepare for retirement without fear or anxiety, that is the goal. The necessary preparations can be made in a simple method, breaking things down along the way, and you can make sure that ...