MyMoneyCheckUp™ is a completely FREE online tool available at MyMoneyCheckUp.org, and is designed to provide an assessment of a consumer’s overall financial health and behavior in four designated areas of personal finance including:

• Budgeting and credit management
• Saving and investing
• Planning for retirement
• Managing home equity

This new tool was created to align with the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Education Core Competencies, and is an example of a successful collaboration between community-based nonprofit organizations, academic institutions, and the public and private sectors.

The only comprehensive web-based financial self-assessment tool available provides individual evaluations for each financial management track and allows for easy online access and availability. The tool can be utilized by the same user multiple times to evaluate the long-term effectiveness of the counseling and education provided.

In these cash strapped times everyone is looking for ways to save their pennies.

One of the easiest and most effective ways to save money online is by using voucher codes.

Any savvy shopper worth their salt will know that trying to get the best deal for any purchase you make always pays off.

What could be simpler than typing a code into a website and finding that it gives you all sorts of great benefits?

What Are Voucher Codes?

The recent financial crisis has meant that the retail world has suffered a blow in recent years as people are being far more careful about their spending.

In order to encourage customer loyalty and find ways to get people to spend more, many stores that sell goods online are now offering discounts and special offers to people who use voucher codes.

This is basically a code you type into a website when making a purchase that will give you money off or other perks.

Where Do I Find Voucher Codes?

There are lots of sites that offer voucher codes for all sorts of purchases and vouchercodes.com is amongst the best.

In fact, there are very few reputable stores that do not offer any sort of voucher codes.

Incredibly this amazing money saving tool is still being under used and there are thousands and thousands of bargains out there which are not being used.

Why Should I Use Voucher Codes?

Everyone loves a bargain and there is nothing better than the feeling of knowing that you’ve got a good deal.

Whenever you make a purchase online you should check to see if there is a voucher code available. You could get money off, two for one offers, free delivery, free gifts and a whole host of other great deals.

Once you have had a go at using voucher codes and made some incredible savings you’ll be kicking yourself that you didn’t try it sooner.

What Are the Risks?

Voucher codes are a fairly new phenomenon which means that lots of people are still skeptical about using them.

However, using these codes is perfectly safe and could end up saving you a lot of money.

Any voucher code you use will have the approval of the store you are using it in, which means that it’s perfectly legal and above board.

So the next time you are shopping online why not check to see if you can use a voucher code with your purchases and see what amazing deals and bargains you can find.

Founded in early 2011 by two brothers in Boulder, Colorado, the concept behind Budgetable arose after realizing that nobody has quite gotten budget software right.

Budgetable is budget software for the modern age. By automatically identifying your wasteful spending, Budgetable helps you save money and change your financial habits for the better. By signing up, you will be among the first to see a truly insightful (and personal) view into your spending patterns and how they affect your personal finances.

When Allianz Life asked people what they needed to create a more secure retirement, “having a guaranteed stream of income in retirement” came out on top.

Yet, less than 18 percent actually have a financial product, like an annuity or a pension, that can provide guaranteed income.

Why? In the case of annuities at least, people simply don’t like them … or so they think. Did you know that many people express distaste for the word “annuity”, but describe an annuity-like product as their ideal financial vehicle?

To combat misperceptions and better help consumers understand what annuities are, how they work and whom they benefit, Allianz launched The ABCs of Annuities, a new animated three-video series that demystifies today’s annuities. These videos can be found on YouTube.

The concept for iuba originated out of his personal experience and the frustration he felt in relying on self-interested industry advice in making important financial decisions. His expectation is that iuba will be recognized as a site for objective data that can serve as an aid for people to make important financial decisions.

Asking friends and family about financial matters can be considered off limits by many. iuba is like having that same conversation – but only better, with an entire community of peers.

As the community of users grow, Rob and Daniel Stone expect to introduce additional financial topics and more local comparisons.

I am a very frugal 25 year old male who has learned many tricks to save large quantities of money that I want to share with you. I work the system (legally) to the max, and I can teach you all the secrets that took me years to obtain.

So come check the site out.

I personally used to spend a lot of time with many deal sites open in tabs in my browser, and various tabs for Yelp reviews for each business, plus tabs with Google Maps so I could see if the business was close to me. Deelio solves that problem by bringing the information together in a single place.

We also allow users to organize the deals they’ve bought by “starring” deals (basically saving them) so that they’ve got a single place where they can keep track of all the deals they’ve bought from various sites. So if you’re wondering whether you bought that 60% off massage deal from Gilt City or Groupon, you can just go to your Deelio account to find out.

Finally, we have a very easy way to save views, which allows users to create personalized filters and save them. For example, I can zoom in
to Greenwich Village in New York in the map view, then select food and drink deals and filter by 4-star Yelp reviews. I can then save this view and quickly access it, allowing me to only see the best restaurant deals available in Greenwich Village.

Planning for your future after graduation is one challenge many young people are faced with. Many graduates are having difficulties making critical life decisions as it is hard to get a sense of how their decisions will affect their future. Decisions such as pursuing higher education, becoming career focused, starting a family or enlisting in the service are just a few examples of decisions that will play a part in how one’s life unfolds.

The Army National Guard has a new application they created and is designed to give users an online visualization experience that will help the user plan their future. The program titled My Life helps users customize their “life” through different environment, occupation, and interest decisions showing users how their decisions will affect them financially and professionally.