Personal Finance Advice and Commentary

It’s Hump Day and we have your midweek money musings ready, here on Bankrate.com.

Watch out for extras that can cost way more money than you planned to spend over the life of your car loan.

If the stress of your financial obligations has ever made you feel sick, learn how to improve your finances.

Watch out for these common pitfalls in using reward credit cards.

President Barack Obama’s speeches to colleges students are a good reminder to think twice …

Avoid as much student (and parent) loan as possible and jump on these cunning strategies to cut college costs starting in high school and even younger.

We’ve always traded in our old motor vehicles toward the purchase of the new one but now …

Sometimes just having a job is not worth it when you factor in all the spending involved in keeping the job.

If you shell out cash for bottled water regularly, then you are just pouring money down the drain.

Can you remember a time in your life when you lived paycheck to paycheck without a budget? Could you afford to spend more to stock up on canned tomatoes at $1 per can instead of buying just the one can you need at $1.79? Could you afford the warehouse club’s megapack of diapers, or did