Be Smart With Your Money

10 Things to Do Before Buying a Used Car

Before Buying A Used CarAfter two summers of flipping burgers and countless weekends mowing lawns for your crotchety neighbors, you've finally saved enough to buy the not-so-gently-used car of your...

10 Ways to Save Money on Your Car

Save Money on Your Car Sssshhhh! Listen! Hear that? It's the sound of your car slowly sucking the life out of your bank account. Sure your sweet ride looked like a good deal on paper; but now that...

The Truth About Your Car - Its Real Cost

The Real Cost of Your CarLike magicians, circus freaks and Snooki's jaundice-inspired tan, car prices are not always what they seem. You may be fiscally armed and ready to tackle the cost of the ca...

Introduction to Auto Insurance

Intro to Auto InsuranceYou have a car, a license to thrill drive and a burning desire to go wherever the road takes you (probably to school and the grocery store for mom). Feel the leather of the s...

How to Find That First Job

10 Tips For Landing Your First Part-Time JobLet's face it—You need clothes. You need gas (for your car). You need a social life that doesn't involve watching Dancing With the Stars every night on...

Where to Park Your Paycheck

Where to Park Your PaycheckThe money came. You worked. You saw. You got paid. And now you're feeling fine - ready to buy whatever your little heart desires. Slow down, hungry eater. We know we soun...

The Truth About Your Paycheck

What's In Your Paycheck?FINALLY! You have a job, you have worked your two weeks, you are ready for that first paycheck, and you can feel your body quiver in anticipation (that may be the wallet you...

The Perfect Gig Quiz

The Perfect Gig QuizHow bad is the paint-dry-watching-boring working world going to be? Well, that depends on you. Jobs are a bit like high school—how much you enjoy it depends on if you're learn...

8 Places to Find Cash

8 Places to Find Free CashYou've been here before—raiding your parents’ glove compartments, searching through pants pockets, feeling under couch cushions to find a few bucks... anything to put...

25 Ways to Save Money In College

25 Ways to Save Money in CollegeEver hear the phrase "starving student?" Well, it didn't come from nowhere (and certainly not a fat-cat). College students are notoriously broke, but it doesn't have...

Save and Earn in High School

20 Ways to Save and/or Earn Money in High SchoolYou need money like vampires need blood. There are only two ways to get it—by adding to your income flow or spending less. (You’ve heard of Murph...

Who Am I? Who Do I Want To Be?

Getting Started: Who am I? Who do I want to be?Teen flicks would have you believe that the halls of high school are a smorgasbord of identities. You have the macho jocks, the bubblegum cheerleaders...