Fix My Finances
Helping You Get “Back In The Black”

  So if you are making minimum-wage as a cashier and at the end of the day, your drawer is missing $20, you probably get fired, because losing a twenty is either stealing or incompetence. But if you’re making a huge salary as a CFO, and large amounts of money disappear from your bank, the [...]

An article called How a Credit Card Makes Freelancers Bawl on how to avoid common problems with credit cards, accounting and freelancing. Meet Joe, a freelance writer with a decent portfolio containing a mix of print and online articles. He loves to skydive and play tennis. Joe has one credit card for both personal and [...]

Here’s some helpful information on credit cards… clears up some confusion about using unsigned cards, and extra charges for expected tips. 5) Merchants Cannot Charge A Surcharge For Using A Credit Card, However, They Can Offer A “Cash Discount”You may have noticed that gas stations are starting to offer a different, higher price for credit [...]

Bank of America is running a strange little promo called Keep The Change. Basically, whenever you use your Bank Of America card, they’ll round your purchase up to the nearest dollar and put the change in your savings account. For the first three months, they’ll even double what goes into your change jar. It seems like [...]

This ReadyMade article explains how to save money when you don’t have a typical 9-to-5 job with a weekly check. It skips the basics and helps tell how to make limited savings work for you. “To earn more, try a money-market account. Paypal.com runs a great one; it paid 4.73 percent as of this June, had [...]