Home Management

Easy, Low Cost Investing with Acorns A few months ago I signed up for an Acorns account. At the time it seemed like a simple way to save a few extra dollars every month (money that I wouldn't have done anything with anyway), and it wouldn't feel like a sacrifice. For the most part that has been true.  How Acorns works.  When you sign up for Acorns you link one or more checking accounts to your Acorns account. Acorns then monitors the transactions in your account and rounds each of of them up to the nearest dollar. So if I spend $3.12 then Acorns records a "round up" amount of $0.88 or if I spend $198.97 then Acorns records a "round up" amount of $0.03. Once the total of my round ups gets to $5.00 Acorns withdraws that amount from my checking account and invests it in my Acorns account where it can earn money on the stock market. This process allows people to begin investing in the stock market for a very low rate (most of the time you have to start...

After nearly two years with Ting wireless service, this is my review. I researched several different companies and read multiple reviews, but in the end we decided on Ting and have been very happy with that choice. After reading the review if you decide to sign up use my link below for a discount. In our home we've always watched our budget pretty close. So while I was in grad school we held off on getting smart phones to keep our budget down. Once I started my first job with my new degree in summer of 2015 we were ready to make the switch. But I wanted to avoid getting into an expensive phone plan where I paid for minutes or data that we weren't really using. So I wanted to do some research first and find something that worked for us. I started by looking at reviews on Consumer Reports website . You need a subscription, but in my mind it's well worth it. From Consumer Reports I decided to check out a few companies that were highly rated and I had never heard of includi...