Mary Hunt

You can’t believe it! You can sweep or vacuum one day, and by the next morning, the dust and dirt have returned.

Perhaps this has happened to you: You've lived with carpeting, and then for one reason or another you live with hardwood or some other type of hard surface flooring that shows up every little bit of dust and dirt. You can't believe it! You can sweep or vacuum one day and by the next morning, […]

If you have to go into debt to make the purchase, you cannot afford it. Forget it.

We spend the first two decades of our lives keeping anything related to money hush-hush. We learn to skirt the truth in the interest of personal decorum.

I wish I had a quarter for every stupid purchase I've made in my life. I'd have some major dough. Regrettably, my financial faux pas have been remarkable in both quantity and quality. I've made some real doozies. Take the above-ground swimming pool. Its a la carte price was bad enough. Adding everything required but […]

There’s a huge consumer credit industry out there planning to give your kids their very own credit cards.

Nobody wakes up one morning and says, “Today I believe I'll squander $2,000.” That would be too obvious.

During the 13 years it took for my husband and me to get out the horrible debt mess of my creation, I learned how important it is to deal with mistakes as they happen so they don't morph into major setbacks.

Nobody wakes up one morning and says, “Today I believe I'll squander $2,000.” That would be too obvious. Instead, we lose $6.99 here, $12.50 there and $4.95 somewhere else.

No one is perfect. You’re going to make mistakes, and when you do, you need to know how to react and what to do to minimize the damage.