LifeLock will pay $12,000,000 in a settlement with the FTC and 35 states. The states and the FTC claim that LifeLock’s Identity theft and data security claims were not true.
In one of the largest FTC-state coordinated settlements on record, LifeLock and its principals will be barred from making deceptive claims and required to take more [...]
Just what is reactive personal finance? It’s the management of your personal finance in reaction to events or situations as opposed to the management of personal finance in anticipation of events or situations.
The best example of this is a budget. A budget is built and held to in anticipation of events in your financial life. [...]
I’m making this post in part to share with you, but also to make a reminder for myself of the things that I need to look into. One of the mistakes that I and many other people make is not shopping around enough. While you may have found the best deal when you bought something, [...]
They weren’t exactly forgotten, but unpaid all the same.
Our habit for doing our budget and paying bills consists of throwing everything in a pile and then sorting through the file when we sit down to enter all the data for our budget into the spreadsheet. One of the first things we do is go through [...]
My wife and I are thinking of selling our house and buying something a bit bigger. The house we are in is a little small for our expanding family. It could be done, but not very comfortably. In that process, we started our research by visiting with a loan officer to run some numbers and [...]
