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Get out of debt fast by sticking it to your credit card company.

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Get out of debt fast with these smart credit card tricks.

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Pay off your credit card debt faster with this free credit card calculator.

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Buying a home is expensive. Whether you’re looking to buy your first house, a cottage, a second rental condo, or up-size to a townhouse – you’d be financially wise to crunch the hard numerical data before signing for that big mortgage. Depending on the size of your down payment, your budget, property maintenance costs, or [...]

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Want to know the impact of current mortgage rates on your mortgage? Think it’s time to refinance? Or maybe you’re looking for your first home and want to calculate your mortgage payments. But before calling your bank and signing your moolah away on a mortgage, do the math yourself to see if you can handle [...]

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Public relations people often pitch products to bloggers like me. Most PR pitches tout harmless products, which I ignore. Until now.
Today a PR company sent me a ridiculous and financially harmful message. These PR people want you to shred your unpaid credit card statements to ignore creditors, to hide consumer debt, and to keep spending. [...]

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I probably won’t win any new friends with this posting. In fact, I’ll probably piss off my current friends and have to explain myself endlessly to my family. But I’m not sorry. I simply do not believe there is such a thing as “good debt”. In fact, I think anyone who argues for “good debt” [...]

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