If you’ve ever had to dispute a charge on a credit card, fix a mix-up with your mortgage or stop a debt collector from hounding you, you’ve benefited from the work of a federal watchdog agency that is now under fire in Washington. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau arguably has done as much to change the financial lives of consumers as any other government agency in history. Most Americans who have a credit card, bank account, mortgage, student or personal…

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  Being awesome is pretty darn awesome, but do you ever wonder, could awesome get more awesome??!?!? Can a level of awesome really be elevated to a new level of awesome? Is saying awesome so many times making you question what awesome even is or if awesome is even a word and WHAT ARE WORDS?!?!?!?   Do you know the feeling of doing something so small but feeling like you are the fucking CEO of the world and if you…

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2017 has gotten off to a great start (at least for Just the Tips!), and we can’t wait to share what else we have in store for you. We have a new version of our iOS app on the way that will help provide a boost under the hood (instant backups!), as well as a few additional features, and more accurate reporting. After we get Android caught up, we will be doing a major update, rolling out as many new…

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  SUPERFOODS!!!! They’re like superheroes….but not.  They’re food.  Food that fills you up with nutrients so you can go fight crime.  Food that keeps you full so you eat less garbage and feel good inside and lose weight if you so desire.  Food that can show you the world…shining, shimmering spleeeendooooooooor!!! #ALADDIN.  There are so many tasty treats out there and likely if it’s a raw food then it will be packed with vitamins and magic, however my top five…

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The three major credit bureaus, and one forward-thinking debt collector, are making changes that could allow millions of people to get loans they’ve unfairly been denied. Equifax, Experian and TransUnion plan to remove civil lawsuit judgments — where a creditor has sued and won in court — and many tax liens from people’s credit reports starting July 1. Striking those public records could improve the scores of as many as 14 million people, some by enough to qualify for mortgages…

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People who spend too much outnumber, by far, those who spend too little. But the methods that therapists and financial planners use to help “underspenders” can guide the rest of us about when it’s OK to splurge and when we should resist. Chronic underspenders can be so terrified about running out of money that they put off health care, ignore needed home repairs or descend into hoarding, says financial planner Rick Kahler of Rapid City, South Dakota. Framing certain expenditures…

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  We all get mad right? I’m a Scorpio and I can promise you that I can get insanely mad when things seem unfair.  I should have been a superhero. When justice is messed with I loose my shit.  (Still trying to figure out my power though. Eating cheese?)  I even get so mad that I’ll have fake fights in my head with the perpetrator that get widely out of context and always end in them doing something crazy mean…

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Anxiety at tax time is common, but millennials feel it more than others. Millennials are the age group most worried about filing their taxes, according to a recent NerdWallet survey conducted by Harris Poll. Factoring in student loan debt can be especially confusing. “You’d be surprised how many people out there don’t even think that’s relevant for their tax return,” says Eric Schaefer, a financial advisor at Evermay Wealth Management in Arlington, Virginia. Here are three ways student loan debt…

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