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The Impact of Daily Habits on Your Budget: Part One

Maintaining a sensible budget is about more than just limiting your spending. After all, there will be times in your life when you’ll be able to spend more and save money easily, just as there will be times when saving will be a struggle every month. In a way, your money habits are no different from your eating habits,

Financial Markets Explained: Stocks, Bonds, and Beyond

Mastering personal finance demands more than just maintaining a budget. Once you’re saving more than you make, and you have a comfortable emergency fund, you’ll need to start thinking about how to maintain and grow your wealth. Even though inflation may now be under control, we’ve still seen a period of relatively high inflation, that left the salaries of

Sustainable Investing: Balancing Profit and Environmental Impact

In recent years, the world has witnessed a paradigm shift in investment strategies. And that change is personified in younger investors. Today’s investors care about more than just monetary returns. Instead, they are increasingly considering the environmental and social impact of their portfolios. As the global community grapples with pressing environmental issues, sustainable investing has emerged as a powerful

8 Budgeting Fails You Won’t Admit Have Happened To You

Our customers at BudgetBakers are, we feel confident in saying: very disciplined in their personal finances. And yet, there are some budgeting failure scenarios that are almost impossible to avoid. This will be a light hearted post about 11 of those budgeting fails. Plus some budgeting pro tips. Ever done an epic fail of budgeting? You’re not alone! Let’s

Top 6 Personal Finance Experts on How To Save Money This Holiday Season

It’s that time of the year again and the holidays are almost around the corner. While we prepare ourselves for the joy and celebrations of the holidays, we also have to prepare our finances to get through this season unscathed. Holidays are the time that most of us overspend. There is the pressure to visit family, give gifts, decorate

Introducing Wallet Life on Wallet

Ever heard of some awesome new service that helps you save some money or whip up some extra cash and were left thinking, “Damn! Why didn’t I hear of this earlier?” So to save you from that FOMO and to make it easier for you to avail the best services, we are introducing a brand new section on Wallet

How To Create A Realistic Holiday Budget And Stick To It

The fairy lights are already up and holiday tunes are filling the air. It is the season of fun and celebrations. And, also of a lot of spending. According to retail surveys, people around the world are expected to spend upward of $400 per person during the holidays this year. With so many discount offers and sales notifications, it

How This Millennial Uses Wallet To Bring Order To His Life

All of us are busy and have to remember to do a lot of things. It is, then, quite possible that we may miss out on a few important things. And, maybe these small things are what makes the real difference to our health, relationships, career or dreams. We set out to help ordinary people lead a rich life

A Step-by-Step Guide To Setting Good Financial Goals And Achieving Them

Is anxiety your first reaction to your finances? Are you worried that you will soon be drowning in debt? Or, are you convinced that you are never going to save enough money to enjoy the good things in life? A lot of us wait for our finances to hit rock-bottom to actually take a look at what’s going wrong.

How Goals On Wallet Helps This Millennial “Adult” The Right Way

It is only when you start living on your own and paying for everything yourself, that most people realise that financial ‘adulting’ is not all that fun! Ghent-based content engineer Sofie Vandenhoven, who had only recently graduated, didn’t take too long to figure that most of what she earned was slipping away too fast. Earning all the money back

How To Make The Most Of The New Weekly Reports On Wallet

As some of you have noticed, we have an exciting new addition to our armor of money managing features–weekly reports. They are concise, yet insightful capsules of data regarding your finances that’ll keep you motivated and informed on the go. By now, you know that knowledge is power when it comes to managing your money. And, these reports give

How To Save Money While Shopping For Back-To-School Supplies

So when do we know that Summer has officially come to an end? Yes, of course, when it’s time to start buying back-to-school supplies. Whether you are a student or a parent, this is a tough time in terms of your finances, because, you do want to stretch that dollar but also want to make sure that you can

Wallet Awarded Google Play’s Editor’s Choice Badge

We’re incredibly proud to announce that, last week, Wallet received the coveted Editor’s Choice badge from Google Play. This means we were handpicked by Google Play editors out of about 2.8 million apps as one of the best and most trusted apps available. The BudgetBakers team feels honored that we have found a place among the 72 top apps in the world. According to Google,

Talking Money: On destroying debt with Zack & Jen of Free Up

When we started the BudgetBakers blog, we were clear about one thing — we wouldn’t offer unsolicited advice or preach about the one-right-way to manage money or become debt free! Why? Because, we know that there is no such thing. We respect each of your money management systems and what we offer are simple, yet intelligent solutions to make this process

How A Dubliner Imported Over 2000 Transactions To Wallet Seamlessly

Yay! You’ve moved to Wallet. But, nay! You’ve a whole lot of transaction data from previous years stored elsewhere. A list that you meticulously and diligently created one at a time over the years. We feel you and that’s why we rolled out our new feature Imports. We do not want your efforts to go wasted and we want you

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