topic Re: Spending Wisely in SmorgasBoard

Spending Wisely

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:59:53 GMT

Is there a spending wisely section on the board somewhere?

Thanks

Re: Spending Wisely

haulingthescoreup — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:36:30 GMT

Not specifically. There's lots of free advice interwoven through nearly every thread, though!

Sometimes a discussion will get going specifically about budgeting, or controlling credit card use. As the forums are meant for credit education, we try not to get off and running on things like investments, retirement, financial strategies and so forth, but it happens.

Re: Spending Wisely

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:44:53 GMT

Well, I was thinking in terms of ways to spend less to improve debt to income ratio. That kind of applies, right?

The FICO analyzer told me that the best thing to improve my score is to lower my credit card balances. For the last two weeks I have been hunting for ways to save money, and was just looking for more ideas.

Re: Spending Wisely

haulingthescoreup — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:50:42 GMT

This board is probably a good place to start. Click on the "Advanced" (search) button above, type budget in the top box and on "Return only posts from" choose Smorgasboard.

We've had quite a few threads here about this, some serious, some less so.

Re: Spending Wisely

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:54:14 GMT

Great, thank you!