Ladylinx feature from Emax Health
On average, women earn 76 cents for every dollar men earn in the workplace. Because women typically spend approximately seven years out of the work force to have and raise children, their earnings are even further curtailed. With lower pay and less time spent in the work force, women are generally left with smaller retirement portfolios, lower company pension benefits and lower Social Security benefits than men.
Despite the fact that women earn less money than men, they generally need a larger retirement nest egg. On …

Ladylinx feature from Totally Her
When you are on your own or only dating casually, your personal finances are simple — there’s just you. You have full knowledge of every detail of your income, and you have complete control of all your expenditures. When you first become serious about a relationship, however, the game changes. There’s now a second person to think about and consider, both practically and emotionally, and what was once easy to handle can now be a little bit tricky when “I” becomes “we”.
Each person has their own …

Ladylinx feature from Real Simple
Barry Paperno, customer-service manager for MyFICO.com, a site that lets consumers obtain credit reports and FICO scores from all three big credit bureaus:
Maintain low debt balances on credit cards for a higher credit score. “Keeping low balances means you’re a good manager of credit,” says Paperno. Lenders frown on a person’s having too many cards, but don’t cancel all unused credit accounts. “If you close them but maintain the same amount of outstanding debt, your debt-to–credit-limit ratio goes up, and that’s not good for your score,” …

Being organized can help you stay on track and one of the easiest things you can do to keep your financial house in order is to get organized.  Having your financial information stored and processed in a systematic manner will go a long way in helping maintain your finances.
Start a Basic Filing System
There is a lot of financial information that needs to be organized and processed, and a simple filing system can make this less of a chore. You can essentially break down all of your financial papers into the …