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!
Online Safety
Online Safety in the Data Breach Era Steps you can take to improve your online safety Why is this SO important? Cybercrime is expected to cost over $10 Trillion in 2025. 2.7 billion records were hacked in the National Public Data (NPD) breach last year, exposing...
Preparing for Tax Time
Preparing for Tax TimeDo you have a system? Do you have a plan?The holidays are behind us and we hope yours were spent in good health! Now is when it really starts to feel like winter to me. The days are shorter and the weather makes it less appealing to be...
End of Year Financial Move
End of Year Financial Move: Taking Your Required Minimum Distributions To save yourself from dire penalties, headaches and stress, be sure you understand the rules for taking annual Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs). The IRS makes it sound very complicated. This...
Are Your Daily Finances in the Right Hands?
Are Your Daily Finances in the Right Hands?How to know if you, or your Daily Money Manager, is doing a good job.There are many reasons why someone might need or be getting help with their personal finances. I’m not talking about investments, but the day-to-day...
Holiday Check-in
Holiday Check-ins Holidays provide a unique opportunity to check-in on our elders For most families, holidays are a time to gather, eat well, and celebrate the holidays. If your family has an elderly contingent, it becomes an especially important tradition. This is...
If You Could Do It…
If You Could Do It, It Would Already Be Done What To Do When You Feel Stuck Something 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...