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Earlier this month, we issued the WilliamPaid Challenge, urging all recent and not-so-recent graduates to tighten their belts a bit to pay back their student loans faster. Katya, a 23-year-old who graduated with more than $26,000 of student loans, agreed to sign-on to the Challenge for 90 days.
Just a week into it, we thought [...]

For many college students, the next two weeks is crunch time. No, it’s not finals, but it’s time to pack up and head back to school. For a large group of students, it’s the first time they will be living off campus, renting their own apartment.
Furnishing an apartment can be pricey, but only [...]

Before you know it, summer will be nearly over, and many people will be scrambling to get ready for their move, either to a new apartment or even to a first apartment in a new city. If you aren’t paying attention, you can rack up some big bills just from the move. Here are a [...]

The basic rule of budgeting is to save, save, save. Cut back where you can and look for bargains. But, sometimes, you can save money by spending more. Here are few areas to avoid being penny wise and pound foolish.
Preventative Health Spending money on preventative health measures will always provide a [...]

For many renters, owning a car is the ultimate battle of good and evil. On one shoulder, your little angel tells you about insurance premiums, the soaring cost of gas and maintenance and the negative environmental impact of car ownership. On the other shoulder sits the devil, reminding you of how convenient it is to [...]

For many renters, finding money in their budgets to pay rent and utilities and still eat can be difficult. You’ve already bit the bullet by cutting down on eating out. You can do more, though. Trimming down your grocery costs can be easy if you give it a little thought. In [...]

With summer quickly approaching, I, like many others, will be leaving my apartment behind and heading on a few trips. Only one problem - said trips are going to leave my budget a little stretched.
So, the big dilemma is how am I going to be able to afford them and still pay my rent? (At [...]

Over the past four months, I have gone from an air mattress to a bed, and even added a futon to the mix. I guess you could say I’ve been moving up in the world - sort of. But something was still missing…
That missing piece kept eluding me until my friend, Paul, came [...]

At some point in most adult relationships that last longer than six months, someone raises the question - why don’t we move in together? After all, let me guess, you spend nearly every night together anyway, right?
There is no single “right” answer for every couple - or even each person in a [...]

I realized this month just how expensive living in the city really is as the bills began to pour in. I ended up spending double what I had budgeted - ouch. At this rate, I’ll never be able to afford that futon (yes, the futon won the debate; I even have one picked [...]