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Life presents us with many and varied types of decisions that we have to make. Just like a business, in order to make the right decision we need good tools, information, and the knowledge of where to go to find it and how to use it. These sites provide you information, advice, and tools to help you with the difficult financial and other decisions you face. |
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Life Events
MetLife has a very nice site where Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Lucy, Woodstock and the rest of the gang give easy to understand life advice about the following topics: Family- Money- Insurance Health- Business- Major Purchases MetLife Life Events |
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Another site that provides useful information, calculators, and financial planning tools
is State Farm.
This site offers access to an
array of resource materials, including books
and online publications, tax information, a guide to
state aging agencies, retirement news, shopping for
special assistive products and services, and links to online stores
The information you need to manage your personal finances courtesy of CCH.
If you plan to move to another state when you retire,
examine the tax burden you'll face when you arrive. Taxes are
increasingly important to everyone, but retirees have
extra cause for concern since their income may be fixed.
Consumer Help and Advice
Shares product ratings and reports for autos, appliances, electronics, personal and sporting goods, and other items.
All sorts of helpful information, guides, and tips for consumers provided
by the U.S. General Services Administration.
Consumer World is a public service, non-commercial guide
with over 2000 of the most useful consumer resources.
Site loaded with free consumer information and reports.
Topics include money and credit, education, travel, and more.
Site provides resources for consumer information supplied by
the federal government. Topic include money, product safety, transportation,
education, amd more.
The Rightonthemoney.org provides an excellent site for finding advice and information about - Household Affairs - Debt - Cars - Insurance - Investing and ..... more.
Tired of being pestered at dinner time by sales calls ?
Register for free with the Do Not Call Registry.
Get Information about your benefits, apply for benefits, request a statement of your earnings, and more.
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Money Skills
Over a thousand pages of essential information and tools to help you manage your personal finances through planning, investing and asset protection strategies. CCH Financial Guide
Mymoney.gov is the Federal Government's website dedicated to helping Americans understand more about their money – how to save it, invest it, and manage it to meet your personal goals.
Get Your Annual Free Credit Report.
Guides to help with money management in evey life stage.
Tips for you to help your children be responsible with money.
Games, quizzes, and activities that make it fun to learn about
money.
These online tutorials will help you understand all the
details of writing checks, reading bank statements,
reviewing credit reports and more.
The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) is committed to investing
in communities. MBA wants to help everyone who wants to
own a home realize the American dream of home ownership.
This web site will help you learn what you need to know
about the mortgage process. Whether you have your
downpayment in hand or first need to repair your credit, this
web site will help you learn what you need to know
about the mortgage process.
The Federal Reserve provides all kinds of information about
money and banking, credit, interest rates, the economy, home mortgages,
and other financial information.
The Consumer Price Indexes (CPI) program produces monthly
data on changes in the prices paid by urban consumers
for a representative basket of goods and services.
Moving or retiring to a new location ? Use these cost of living calculators
to see what affect this move will have on your buying power.
See if your wages are keeping pace with inflation.
Zilch Standard - Debt Reduction
You get a personalized monthly payment schedule that shows you exactly how much to pay
each creditor each month. Now, you can take advantage of trade secrets used by many financial counselors in
the privacy and comfort of your own home at a fraction of the cost.
Money 101 - a step by step guide to gaining control of your financial life courtesy of CNN Money.
The goal of Free Financial Advice is to teach and explain the fundamental rules of money management, wealth
management and debt management, but more importantly to teach you a new way to look at
your spending, investing and debt management decisions so that you can make intelligent,
informed and calculated decisions as to how to optimize and manage your money and debt.
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Legal Advice
Legal advice site for consumers and small business. Provides answers to questions about estate planning, bankruptcy, taxes, and more. Free Advice
Another good legal site providing useful information.
Have a legal problem or need some legal assistance ? Not free; but, very affordable.
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Home Buying and Selling Guides
One of the biggest expenditures for most of us is the purchase of a home. To make a wise decision you need to do your homework. Sources for information and guides for buying and selling a house.
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Auto Buying Guides
Aside from buying a house, for most of us, the purchase of an automobile is probably our next biggest expenditure. To make a wise decision you need to do your homework. Sources for new and used car buyer guides, reviews, auto insurance, car loans, and more!
State Lemon Laws
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Calculators
Need help making some financial decisions ? These calculators offer solutions to many decisions we all at one time or another need to make. Bankrate.com has assembled one of the most complete sets of financial calculators on the Web.
Other good sites for calculators are:
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Computers and Internet Help
Have a question about computers, the internet, or just about anything and don't know where to look ? Try these sites to get your answers. HowStuffWorks AllExperts LibrarySpot AskMeHelpDesk RefDesk SoYouWanna HowToDoAnything Are you frustrated trying to find information on the net? Get some help from the web hound! You will learn a great deal while having fun doing scavenger hunts and other searches. The web hound, developed by Maricopa Center for Learning and Instruction (MCLI), will show you how to use different types of web search tools through a series of steps, guided examples, and hands-on practice. Web Hound Computer not doing right ? Check out this source for free computer tech support and resources. Nerd Help |
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Tax Help
Needing individual tax information, help, and guidance ? Check out MetLife and the Charlie Brown gang for tips on doing your taxes. Doing Your Taxes
You can find additional help, forms, and
information in our Individual's
Tax Section.
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Business Skills
Needing to acquire some new or polish some old business skills ? Our Business Information, Tools, and Tutorials Sections provides you with Bookkeepimg, Word, Excel, and other business tutorials to help get you headed in the right direction.. Accounting and Bookkeeping Tutorials Business Information and Tools Excel and Word Tutorials |
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Scam Information
Information about scams and organizations that help you avoid them. You work too hard for your money to get ripped off by cons and scams. Scam Information |
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Home Software
Sites providing free software, information, tips, games, and fun stuff for all computer users. Home Software |
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Newbie Information
Sites devoted to educating new computer users. Free tutorials and e-books help new users understand and use computers, software, and the internet. Remember at one time we were all newbies ! Oh, bye the way experienced computer users can also benefit from these sites. Newbie Information |
