The Truth About Funding Your Wedding
If you’ve ever thought about your future and getting married, you’ve probably thought about having the perfect wedding. Everyone wants all their loved ones in attendance, an open bar, delicious food, and beautiful decorations. However, there is a high price that comes with all of those things — literally. Studies show that millennials spend more…
Making the Move: How Much Does It Actually Cost?
Everyone knows that moving can be a financial burden. There are the obvious expenses: a realtor to sell your current home, the cost of moving trucks and movers, and, of course, the cost of financing a new home. However, there are also other costs that people may not realize at first: the time you have…
The 5 Best Cities for Solar Panel Savings
Solar energy has steadily grown in popularity in recent years, so it’s no surprise that as of 2016, nine-in-ten U.S. adults said they were in favor of expanding solar power use. But why do so many American individuals support solar energy? Aside from the collective environmental benefits, what do you, personally, have to gain from…
Please Don’t Stop the Music: Retirement Tours & Revenue Generation
It seems that every day another fixture of the music industry announces that their upcoming tour will be their last. 2018 has seen retirement announcements from a slew of great musicians. Performers from Elton John to Aretha Franklin to Slayer have decided to park their party buses and retire from touring, opting to make the…
Is the Price of a Night at the Movies Really Skyrocketing?
When the first-ever “summer blockbuster”, Jaws, was released in 1975, it started a trend of summer movie releases that previously did not exist. Now, movies with a summer release are part of culture, with big production companies like Marvel and Disney releasing new flicks every June and July. Going to the movies is a great…
These 4 Apps Will Help You to Reach Financial Security
Staying within a budget can be difficult. It’s so easy to swipe that credit card and simply think that you will “pay it off later”. These purchases start to add up and you may find a large credit card bill in your mailbox at the end of the month. Getting yourself into debt can be…
Personal Finance for Main St
When residents of Main St look for news on how the economy is performed that day, it's often reported in terms of how the "Dow" or the S&P 500 performed that day. So what is the Dow? Ditto for the S&P 500?