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spending: Is Your Family's Spending Plan Right for Your Lifestyle? - 02/10/12 04:01 PM
Creating your family's spending plan is an important and fulfilling task to accomplish. It reflects your family's goals, values, and priorities. The Equifax Finance Blog welcomed new Family Money blogger Miranda Marquit this week. Her post about steps and considerations to make when creating your family's spending plan offers lots of good advice.
Marquit does not believe in "Keeping Up With the Joneses". Instead, she recommends thinking about what defines you as a family. Does your family spend time together? Take vacations? Partake in lots of extracurricular activities? From there, you can set goals and prioritize how to allocate your money … (1 comments)

spending: How To Pay Off Debt: Prioritize Your Spending Needs And Your Debt Payments - 02/14/11 12:15 PM
Being in debt is a scary situation, and it can seem overwhelming to try to get a handle on where your money should go. If you're making an effort to pay off debt, you need to evaluate your mortgage payments, insurance premiums, utility bills, and other spending to see which are most important. 
The credit experts at Equifax have put together a great post on budgeting and prioritizing when you're in debt. Their first piece of advice: Your mortgage payment is always your #1 priority. A family needs a safe place to live, and late mortgage payments will catch up with you … (0 comments)

 

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