How to Budget Groceries: 11 Easy Tips
Have you ever sat down to go over your budget only to find out that...
Financial Planing
5 Financial Goals to Start in 2021
[embedded content] Although many people start New Year’s resolutions in January, there’s nothing magical about...
Inflation Defined (What Is the Inflation Rate?)
Growing up, you may have heard your parents reminisce about how gas was only a...
What Is a Jumbo Loan? Finance Your Property in a Competitive Market
After years of building a stellar credit history, you may have decided you’re finally ready...
Retirement Savings Calculator
It’s never too early to begin saving for retirement! Our retirement calculator makes it easy...
Housing Finance
What Is Escrow and How Does It Work?
Escrow is a legally binding arrangement where a third party holds assets from a buyer...
Money Audit
Mint Money Audit 6-Month Check-In: How Did Michelle Allocate Her Windfall?
In March I offered some financial advice to Michelle, a Mint user who was struggling with debt, a lack of retirement savings and a bit of family financial drama amongst her siblings.
Michelle was anticipating a cash bonus from her company and wasn’t sure if she should save the money…
Money Audit: Should We Hold on to Our Rental Properties?
Money Audit: Should We Hold on to Our Rental Properties?
This week’s Mint audit helps out a couple, Pasquale, 46, and Jillian, 39, who are starting a new life together...
Mint Money Audit: Affording Life After Grad School
Mint Money Audit: Affording Life After Grad School
With a brand new PhD under her belt, our latest Mint audit recruit, Renee, is ready to take on the...
Student Finance
How to Deal When You Have a Money Discrepancy With Your Friends
For a significant chunk of my time in college, I thought of myself as the poor one in my friend’s group. I was paying my way through school and studying journalism, a field with shrinking job prospects, while my boyfriend was preparing to graduate debt-free thanks to a college fund…
How To Get Paid To Go to College: 12 Tactics to Consider
How To Get Paid To Go to College: 12 Tactics to Consider
Save more, spend smarter, and make your money go further College is an exciting time for students to live on...
Student Loan Assistance Programs: What You Need to Know
Student Loan Assistance Programs: What You Need to Know
When I graduated from college, I was one of the “lucky ones” with a lower-than-average student debt load. While I...
How To Leverage Student Credit Cards As A Financial Opportunity
How To Leverage Student Credit Cards As A Financial Opportunity
From the Mint team: Mint may be compensated if you click on the links to our issuer partners’ offers that...
How To Save Money On College Textbooks
How To Save Money On College Textbooks
It’s a common trope: going to college is expensive. There’s tuition, the overpriced cafeteria plan, and the cramped dorm room...
What to Do If Your Wages Are Being Garnished for Student Loans
What to Do If Your Wages Are Being Garnished for Student Loans
You’re doing the best you can with your money situation, but somehow, you’re still barely staying afloat. Besides staying on...
Where to Find Free Financial Resources in College
Where to Find Free Financial Resources in College
It may sound counterintuitive, but managing your money gets easier the more you have. When you cross a certain income...
5 Ways to Save on Spring Break Travel
5 Ways to Save on Spring Break Travel
The trips you take in young adulthood tend to be the ones that stick with you forever. You’re old enough...
Why UGMA/UTMA Accounts Are the Perfect Holiday Gift
Why UGMA/UTMA Accounts Are the Perfect Holiday Gift
If you have a special child in your life, you may be wondering what to put under the tree this...