Monthly Archives: May 2025
Financial Stress Turns Up the Heat in the Summer
Now that we are years into financial long COVID, financial stress is a year-round ordeal, but certain one time per year expenses only make things worse. You have long since given up on buying holiday gifts, traveling during your children’s spring break, and preparing a feast for Thanksgiving. You have been supplementing your income… Read More »
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Overdraft Fees
It is a common plot point in movies with everyman protagonists and in motivational stories by personal finance influencers. Just when the protagonist thinks his day cannot get worse, he goes to withdraw money from an ATM or check his bank account balance online and finds out that his bank account is overdrawn, meaning… Read More »
When Does Delayed Vehicle Ownership Paperwork Become Used Car Fraud?
Buying a car is a marathon, not a sprint, even if it is not your first vehicle purchase. You spend hours going back and forth with chatty salespeople at the dealership about minute features of the car that might increase or decrease the sale price by a few dollars, until the financial department finally… Read More »
Pennsylvania Personal Finance Classes Get Enthusiastic Response From Students
Some high school students tie themselves in knots to get good grades in multiple challenging classes so that they can get acceptance to colleges where admissions are competitive or, even better, get scholarships to their dream colleges. The students who are just ready for high school to be over so that they can get… Read More »
