The CC Bank Blog

Congratulations on your engagement!

It is time to get started planning what most people call the best day of your life.

Whether you’ve enjoyed a long engagement or the question was popped today, getting started on the planning can be daunting.

Usually one of the most stressful parts of wedding planning is the budget.

It can challenge you and your soon-to-be spouse from the start. But this comprehensive list should help you prepare before you start.

So where to start? Which checklist should you choose?

The scenario is all too familiar:

You go in to get a car loan, or to get approved for a mortgage, and your interest rates or down payment options are through the roof and completely ridiculous.

Having a bad credit score is stressful, and can negatively affect your attempts to live the life you want to live, so if you’ve made some mistakes in the past…

…maybe in college when you first tasted the freedom of being able to spend “whatever you want,” taking action to lowering your bad credit is incredibly important.

Improving your credit score means improving your long-term quality of life, and the following article will give you some tricks and tips to boosting your less than desired credit score.

First of all, here are a few bad habits that you should avoid:

When it comes to saving money, there are many things you can do.

One of them is making sure you’re not a prey for the big corporations…

…Which is stealing your money without you even knowing it!

Over the years big companies have done some sneaky stuff in order to get rich.

I talk about the top five sneaky tricks I know of, I’m sure after reading this you will be shocked by some of these.

Let’s dive right in:

Another day, another government acronym thrown at me.

Why should I care about the FDIC?

The FDIC is who will insure your deposits if your bank or financial institution goes out of business.

They’ve been around since 1933 and were created to prevent people from withdrawing all of their funds from their banks during the Great Depression.

That was Uncle Sam’s way of doing damage control in the case of similar events in the future.

So yes, you can relax knowing that if your bank closes, the FDIC can give you the peace of mind in knowing that your money is insured.