Tigress Tales
Important and sometimes irreverent personal finance tips, strategies, and stories to educate, amuse, and motivate. It’s a big job, but someone has to do it!
If You Could Do It…
If You Could Do It, It Would Already Be Done What To Do When You Feel StuckSomething is holding you back from accomplishing a goal that you know is in your own best interest. You procrastinate, not because you are lazy or stupid, but because there is some...
Preventing & Recovering from Fraud
Fraud can affect anyone and is with us to stay. Learn from the pros about ways you can stay safer and recover from a fraud event.
Insights into Elder Abuse
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day #WEAAD is June 15th. How to limit risk and protect yourself and others, including great resource links!
Is the Trust Fund Empty?
Legally establishing a trust does not put money into it.Perhaps you or your parent(s) visited an attorney at some point and had a trust document drafted. There are many kinds of trusts, but most are created to hold accounts or other items of value (assets) that would...
Check Safety in the Age of Identity Theft
Check Writing Has Some PitfallsIt used to be that check-writing was a way of life. It was the only way to pay bills or send money to a grandchild for their birthday. In 2022, FinCen, a unit of the US Treasury Department, reported a whopping 84% increase in check...
Annoyance Blocking
Pro tips on blocking those annoying calls, emails, texts, and even junk mail!
How To Make Your Tax Preparer Love You!
Putting Free Money to Work
If you are not redeeming credit card points, you are missing out on free money that could be growing for you instead of for the credit card company!
Too Many Accounts?
MEDICARE – A Guide to Plan Reviews
Review and Possibly Change Your Medicare Plan(s) Annually It may be your plan or that of a loved one who needs help, but unless you have a plan that is subsidized by an employer, it makes good ‘cents’ to review your plans each year during the Open Enrollment Period. ...