Financial Well-Being: 10 Ways to Improve in 2022
Financial Well-Being. What is it? Do you have it? The holidays have come and gone, and as most of us go back to work (or go back to working at home), it’s a critical time for recalibrating and improving the way we manage our personal finances. Two years into a global pandemic, health is on …
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Money Scams You Should NEVER Fall For
If you’re a BudgetBakers customer, you’re probably smarter than the average person. That’s what our research tells us anyway. You may not be susceptible to the most obvious of marketing and money scams, but that doesn’t mean that even the smartest people don’t occasionally get hooked into something they don’t fully understand. That’s what today’s …
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8 Ways to Argue for a Raise This Year
Asking for a raise is never easy. It’s been quite a difficult couple of years for many of us. We’ve lost businesses. We’ve lost family members. We’ve lost friends, and some of us lost our jobs. That’s why now is the time to step up. But with millions of people in the developed world seeking …
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How Much Do You Really Spend on Subscriptions?
You’re probably spending more than you expect on monthly subscriptions. Here’s how to trim the fat painlessly.
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6 Ways to Save the Climate on a Budget
The world is getting warmer, and extreme weather events are becoming more common. Some believe that we may already be too late to avoid catastrophic consequences of human activity driven climate change. Too often we are told that climate change depends on our personal actions. However this is far from the whole truth. The majority …
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Your Millennial Money Advice is Annoying
We get it. The millennial generation is now the largest in the United States and in many other developed countries too. People born between about 1980 and 1997 are now the majority of new homebuyers, of new hires, new parents, and increasingly new political leaders as well. A funny thing has happened though since their …
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7 Money Movies You Can (Actually) Learn From
Summer for my family means hot days hiding from the sun, warm evenings spent in our garden, and airy nights spent watching a film together on our home projector. So obviously I’m a big fan of movies, and having worked in the finance world for a long time in one capacity or another, I also …
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8 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter About Economics
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: You come across an important piece of news about the world, and while you know what it’s saying matters, the terms and figures mean very little to you. Inflation, consumer price index, unemployment, trade and budget deficits and the like, all sound critical to our everyday lives. And …
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Sunk Cost Fallacy: Dealing with Loss
I have a confession to make. I’ve been living in denial for a while now. But it’s time to let go… The Sunk Cost Fallacy : How Not to Set Your Money on Fire It all started with a dream. I’ll admit, it was a silly conceit of mine. I had always wanted to own …
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Budget Spring Cleaning: Part 2
Your budget, just like any other part of your busy life, deserves a spring cleaning. That’s why last time we shared 5 Tips on how to spring clean your budget. Now we’re back with 6 more tips on budget spring cleaning. Think we’re missing a good budgeting tip? Give us a shout on Twitter or …
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Budget Spring Cleaning : Part 1 of 2
While global climate change may be confusing the birds and the trees this year, it is still technically spring across the Northern Hemisphere (sorry Australia!). It’s time to clean up your budget! A new year, a new pile of bills you may want to look into. Most of us collect at least a few unwanted …
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BudgetBakers Welcomes New Investors and Major Expansion Plan
New Partners with Experience Our founders and the rest of the BudgetBakers team are very proud to announce that as of this week, BudgetBakers is part of a much bigger family. We have officially joined in an investment partnership with two highly successful startup veterans, Jasper Anderluh and Niels Klok. The pair founded the online …
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Changes to Wallet Premium for Spanish Customers
We’d like to let our customers in Spain know about some changes that are happening in regards to how Wallet will be billed in the future. First of all, if you’re a premium customer and you’re happy with Wallet, you don’t have to change anything. All the same features will be available, and more going …
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Announcing Budgeting for Wallet on iOS!
Hi BudgetBakers community! First off, we need to acknowledge that, while this news is super exciting, it is also super late. The truth is that despite our name being BudgetBakers, we haven’t had a real budgeting feature available on iOS for either Wallet or Board since those apps launched. BudgetBakers got started as an Android …
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