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5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Credit Score

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Your Credit Score

→  July 16, 2010 0

No…we’re not talking about how much street cred you get for scoring with the head cheerleader. Good and Bad Your credit score rocks if it’s 726 and higher. However, plan on working at McDonald’s and living in a trailer the rest of your life if it’s 540 or lower. Chameleon Score Much like a girl during “that time of [...]

5 Folks Who Made Bank During The Great Depression

5 Folks Who Made Bank During The Great Depression

→  June 2, 2010 0

While most people were living off of scraps during the Great Depression, other folks managed to turn in great financial gains. Some had natural talents to net them big bucks while others were just plain lucky. But one thing’s for certain… no matter how these fellas found a profit, people hated them for it. Damn [...]

How To Change Your Life In Less Than 1 Year

→  January 5, 2010 0

No matter what the New Year’s resolution, they’re usually too simple or mundane to make a big enough impact on someone’s life to make seeing them through worthwhile. This is one of the reasons why every year thousands of stationary bikes become expensive clothes racks. This year shoot for something that the mere thought of achieving [...]

Credit For Dummies… And Students

→  December 29, 2009 0

There is a three-digit number that is of great importance to your future. This number can determine whether or not you get approved for car loans and mortgages, how high your interest rates will be on loans, credit cards and insurance rates. . . even whether or not you are the best candidate for a [...]

Pimpin’ On A Dime

→  October 7, 2009 0

Saying the current economic climate is poor is like saying alcohol helps get you laid. No sh**! But in these trying times, college students are forced to budget to the nth degree just to get by from week to week. Already a notoriously cheap demographic, coeds are expected to maintain their raucous lifestyle while costs [...]

15 Tips For Living On Less Than $20 Per Week

→  September 30, 2009 0

Submitted By: Andrea Wilson - University Of South Florida If bubblegum pop-chef Rachael Ray can eat on $40 a day in any city, I propose that we college students step it up and attempt to live, eat and date on $20 dollars a week in any college town. We are notorious for being broke, stupid and [...]

Video: A Trillion Dollars Visualized

Video: A Trillion Dollars Visualized

→  July 28, 2009 0

Here is a neat video from Mint.com that will help you wrap your brain around how much money a trillion dollars really is.

The Art Of Panhandling

→  June 1, 2009 0

Ask some people and they might give you some interesting answers for what panhandling really is. For instance, some might think it was what old men in overalls did to find gold in the old west. Others are more inclined to think that it was something Julia Childs did very well in her heyday. Of [...]